A5059976201- Advancements in Battery Materials
- Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies
- Advanced Battery Technologies Research
- Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication
- Advanced battery technologies research
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- MXene and MAX Phase Materials
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- Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications
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- Inorganic Chemistry and Materials
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Wuhan University
2016-2025
Tianjin University
2007-2025
Nanchang University
2021-2025
Xiamen University
2023-2025
Lanzhou Jiaotong University
2025
State Key Laboratory of Solid Lubrication
2025
Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics
2025
Chinese Academy of Sciences
2008-2025
Xi’an Children’s Hospital
2025
Wuzhou University
2025
Hollow carbon nanowires (HCNWs) were prepared through pyrolyzation of a hollow polyaniline nanowire precursor. The HCNWs used as anode material for Na-ion batteries deliver high reversible capacity 251 mAh g(-1) and 82.2% retention over 400 charge-discharge cycles between 1.2 0.01 V (vs Na(+)/Na) at constant current 50 mA (0.2 C). Excellent cycling stability is also observed an even higher rate. A 149 can be obtained rate 500 (2C). good insertion property attributed to the short diffusion...
A novel vulcanized polyaniline nanotube/sulfur composite was prepared successfully via an in situ vulcanization process by heating a mixture of nanotube and sulfur at 280 °C. The electrode could retain discharge capacity 837 mAh g−1 after 100 cycles 0.1 C rate manifested 76% retention up to 500 1 rate. Detailed facts importance specialist readers are published as ”Supporting Information”. Such documents peer-reviewed, but not copy-edited or typeset. They made available submitted the authors....
Hard carbon is one of the most promising anode materials for sodium‐ion batteries, but low Coulombic efficiency still a key barrier. In this paper, series nanostructured hard with controlled architectures synthesized. Using combination in situ X‐ray diffraction mapping, ex nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), electron paramagnetic resonance, electrochemical techniques, and simulations, an “adsorption–intercalation” mechanism established Na ion storage. During initial stages insertion, ions...
Abstract Sodium‐ion batteries (SIBs) are considered to be a low‐cost complement or competitor Li‐ion for large‐scale electric energy storage applications; however, their development has been less successful due the lack of suitable host materials enable reversible Na + insertion reactions. Prussian blue analogs (PBAs) appear attractive candidates SIB cathodes because open channel structure, compositional and electrochemical tunability. In this paper, authors present comprehensive review on...
Single crystalline Na4Mn9O18 nanowires are prepared with a polymer-pyrolysis method. This material shows high, reversible sodium ion insertion/extraction capacity, excellent cycling ability, and promising rate capability for sodium-ion battery applications.
Turning on your P/C: An amorphous phosphorus/carbon (a-P/C) composite was synthesized using simple mechanical ball milling of red phosphorus and conductive carbon powders. This material gave an extraordinarily high sodium ion storage capacity 1764 mA h g−1 (see graph) with a very rate capability, showing great promise as anode for batteries. As service to our authors readers, this journal provides supporting information supplied by the authors. Such materials are peer reviewed may be...
A Sb/C nanocomposite was synthesized and found to deliver a reversible 3 Na storage capacity of 610 mA h g(-1), strong rate capability at very high current 2000 g(-1) long-term cycling stability with 94% retention over 100 cycles, offering practical feasibility as cycling-stable anode for room temperature Na-ion batteries.
Sb–C nanofibers are synthesized successfully through a single-nozzle electrospinning technique and subsequent calcination. The structural morphological characterizations reveal the uniform nanofiber structure with Sb nanoparticles embedded homogeneously in carbon nanofibers. Electrochemical experiments show that electrode can deliver large reversible capacity (631 mA h g−1) at C/15, greatly improved rate capability (337 g−1 5 C) excellent cycling stability (90% retention after 400 cycles)....
A new SnSb/C nanocomposite based on Na alloying reactions is demonstrated as anode for Na-ion battery applications. The electrode can achieve an exceptionally high capacity (544 mA h g−1, almost double that of intercalation carbon materials), good rate and cyclability (80% retention over 50 cycles) storage.
Abstract Noticeable pseudo‐capacitance behavior out of charge storage mechanism (CSM) has attracted intensive studies because it can provide both high energy density and large output power. Although cyclic voltammetry is recognized as the feasible electrochemical technique to determine quantitatively in previous works, results are inferior due uncertainty definitions application conditions. Herein, three successive treatments, including de‐polarization, de‐residual de‐background, well a...
TiO2-coated multilayered SnO2 hollow microspheres exhibit a high overall photoconversion efficiency of ∼5.65% when used for dye-sensitized solar-cell photoelectrodes due to multiple reflecting and scattering incident light in the hierarchical spherical structure.
Abstract Hard carbon is regarded as the most promising anode material for commercialization of Na ion batteries because its high capacity and low cost. At present, practical utilization hard anodes largely limited by initial Coulombic efficiency (ICE). ions have been found to adopt an adsorption–insertion storage mechanism. In this paper a systematic way control defect concentration porosity with similar overall architectures shown. This study elucidates that defects in graphite layers are...
Hierarchical carbon framework wrapped Na3 V2 (PO4 )3 (HCF-NVP) is successfully synthesized through chemical vapor deposition on pure particles. Electrochemical experiments show that the HCF-NVP electrode can deliver a large reversible capacity (115 mA h g(-1) at 0.2 C), superior high-rate rate capability (38 500 and ultra-long cycling stability (54% retention after 20 000 cycles).
Abstract Hard carbons (HCs) are promising anodes of sodium‐ion batteries (SIBs) due to their high capacity, abundance, and low cost. However, the sodium storage mechanism HCs remains unclear with no consensus in literature. Here, based on correlation between microstructure Na behavior synthesized over a wide pyrolysis temperature range 600–2500 °C, an extended “adsorption–insertion” is proposed. The can be divided into three types different mechanisms. highly disordered carbon, d 002 (above...
Sodium‐ion batteries (SIBs) are now being actively developed as low cost and sustainable alternatives to lithium‐ion (LIBs) for large‐scale electric energy storage applications. In recent years, various inorganic organic Na compounds, mostly mimicked from their Li counterparts, have been synthesized tested SIBs, some of them indeed demonstrate comparable specific capacity the presently LIB electrodes. However, lack suitable cathode materials is still a major obstacle commercial development...
Mesoporous carbon (MC) with tunable pore sizes (22 nm, 12 7 and 3 nm) volumes (from 1.3 to 4.8 cm3 g−1) containing sulfur in the pores was studied as a mesoporous carbon–sulfur (MCS) composite electrode for lithium–sulfur (Li–S) batteries. Systematic investigation of these MCS composites reveals that MC larger volume can hold higher maximum loading, but overall battery performance is very similar different at full sulfur-filling conditions (i.e., condition which loading approaches limit set...
Prussian blue and its analogues have received particular attention as superior cathodes for Na-ion batteries due to their potential 2-Na storage capacity (∼170 mAh g(-1)) low cost. However, most of the compounds obtained from conventional synthetic routes contain large amounts Fe(CN)6 vacancies coordinated water molecules, which leads collapse cyano-bridged framework serious deterioration Na-storage ability. Herein, we propose a facile citrate-assisted controlled crystallization method...
Room-temperature Na-ion batteries have attracted great interest as a low cost and environmentally benign technology for large scale electric energy storage, however their development is hindered by the lack of suitable anodic host materials. In this paper, we described green approach synthesis Sn4P3/C nanocomposite demonstrated its excellent Na-storage performance novel anode batteries. This can deliver very high reversible capacity 850 mA h g(-1) with remarkable rate capability 50% output...
A functionalized graphene sheet-sulfur (FGSS) nanocomposite was synthesized as the cathode material for lithium-sulfur batteries. The structure has a layer of sheets/stacks (FGS) and sulfur nanoparticles creating three-dimensional sandwich-type architecture. This unique FGSS nanoscale layered composite high loading (70 wt%) active (S), tap density ∼0.92 g cm(-3), reversible capacity ∼505 mAh g(-1) (∼464 cm(-3)) at current 1680 mA (1C). When coated with thin cation exchange Nafion film,...