- Advancements in Battery Materials
- Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies
- Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication
- Advanced battery technologies research
- Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
- Conducting polymers and applications
- Advanced Battery Technologies Research
- Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
- Nanomaterials and Printing Technologies
- Transition Metal Oxide Nanomaterials
- Photonic Crystals and Applications
- Thermal Expansion and Ionic Conductivity
- Nanowire Synthesis and Applications
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
2013-2019
Government of the Republic of Korea
2016-2019
Ulsan College
2016
All-inkjet-printed, solid-state flexible supercapacitors (SCs) on paper are demonstrated as a new class of power sources with exceptionally versatile aesthetics. The inkjet-printed SCs look like letters or figures commonly found in office documents and aesthetically unitized other printed images paper.
The unending demand for portable, flexible, and even wearable electronic devices that have an aesthetic appeal unique functionality stimulates the development of advanced power sources excellent electrochemical performance and, more importantly, shape versatility. challenges in fabrication next-generation flexible mainly arise from their limited form factors, which prevent facile integration into differently shaped devices, lack reliable materials exhibit optimized attributes suitable...
The hierarchical porous structure has garnered considerable attention as a multiscale engineering strategy to bring unforeseen synergistic effects in vast variety of functional materials. Here, we demonstrate "microporous covalent organic framework (COF) net on mesoporous carbon nanotube (CNT) net" hybrid architecture new class molecularly designed, chemical trap for lithium polysulfides (Li2Sx) Li–S batteries. As proof concept the architecture, self-standing COF-net CNT-net interlayers...
Forthcoming flexible/wearable electronic devices with shape diversity and mobile usability garner a great deal of attention as an innovative technology to bring unprecedented changes in our daily lives. From the power source point view, conventional rechargeable batteries (one representative example is lithium-ion battery) fixed shapes sizes have intrinsic limitations fulfilling design/performance requirements for electronics. Here, facile efficient strategy address this formidable...
With the advent of ubiquitous electronics era, high-performance power sources with aesthetic diversity are indispensably needed as a key-enabling technology. Printed batteries have recently emerged crispy energy storage system to address this issue. fabricated through simple, low-cost, and scalable printing processes. Their salient features include various form factors, shape conformability, monolithic integration devices interest. Research directions on printed currently focused (i) design...
The flexible/shape-versatile bipolar all-solid-state LIBs, which fabricated <italic>via</italic> solvent-drying-free, UV-curing-assisted multistage printing, are presented as an unprecedented material/process strategy to address longstanding challenges associated with inorganic-electrolyte-based LIBs.
A monolithically integrated, single-unit PV–LIB device shows exceptional electrochemical performance that lies far beyond those achievable by conventional PVs or LIBs alone.
The rapidly approaching smart/wearable energy era necessitates advanced rechargeable power sources with reliable electrochemical properties and versatile form factors. Here, as a unique promising storage system to address this issue, we demonstrate new class of heterolayered, one-dimensional (1D) nanobuilding block mat (h-nanomat) battery based on unitized separator/electrode assembly (SEA) architecture. SEAs consist wood cellulose nanofibril (CNF) separator membranes metallic current...
The facilitation of ion/electron transport, along with ever-increasing demand for high-energy density, is a key to boosting the development energy storage systems such as lithium-ion batteries. Among major battery components, separator membranes have not been center attention compared other electrochemically active materials, despite their important roles in allowing ionic flow and preventing electrical contact between electrodes. Here, we present new class based on inverse opal-inspired,...
A solid-state electrolyte with reliable electrochemical performance, mechanical robustness and safety features is strongly pursued to facilitate the progress of flexible batteries. Here, we demonstrate a shape-deformable thermally stable plastic crystal composite polymer (denoted as "PC-CPE") new class achieve this challenging goal. The PC-CPE composed UV (ultraviolet)-cured ethoxylated trimethylolpropane triacrylate (ETPTA) macromer/close-packed Al2O3 nanoparticles (acting framework)...
We demonstrate a bendable plastic crystal polymer electrolyte (referred to as "B-PCPE") for use in flexible lithium-ion batteries. The B-PCPE proposed herein is composed of (PCE, 1 M lithium bis-trifluoromethanesulphonimide (LiTFSI) succinonitrile (SN)) and UV (ultraviolet)-cured network bearing long linear hydrocarbon chains (here, trimethylolpropane propoxylate triacrylate (TPPTA) exploited). solid characteristics the are investigated terms behavior, mechanical bendability, ionic...
We demonstrate the convergence of various Si structures and gel-polymer electrolyte for high-performance Si-based battery anodes. It exhibits superior cycling stability a half volume expansion compared to liquid cell.
Lithium (Li) metal has garnered considerable attention in next-generation battery anodes. However, its environmental vulnerability, along with the electrochemical instability and safety failures, poses a formidable challenge to commercial use. Here, we describe new class of antioxidative Li reservoir based on interstitial channels single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) bundles. The preferentially confined exhibits unusual thermodynamic stability exceptional capacity even after exposure harsh...
DNA-directed amphiphilic self-assembly is presented as a new class of chemifunctional/multiscale-structuring strategy and its potential application to Li–S cathode was explored.