{"title":"Recent progress of multilayer polymer electrolytes for lithium batteries","authors":"","doi":"10.20517/energymater.2022.64","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20517/energymater.2022.64","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21863,"journal":{"name":"Solar Energy Materials","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84554936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yanfei Zhang, Qian Li, Guangxun Zhang, Tingting Lv, Pengbiao Geng, Yumeng Chen, H. Pang
{"title":"Recent advances in the type, synthesis and electrochemical application of defective metal-organic frameworks","authors":"Yanfei Zhang, Qian Li, Guangxun Zhang, Tingting Lv, Pengbiao Geng, Yumeng Chen, H. Pang","doi":"10.20517/energymater.2023.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20517/energymater.2023.06","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21863,"journal":{"name":"Solar Energy Materials","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88685696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Andrew Nguyen, R. Verma, Pravin N. Didwal, Chan‐Jin Park
{"title":"Challenges and design strategies for alloy-based anode materials toward high-performance future-generation potassium-ion batteries","authors":"Andrew Nguyen, R. Verma, Pravin N. Didwal, Chan‐Jin Park","doi":"10.20517/energymater.2023.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20517/energymater.2023.11","url":null,"abstract":"Potassium-ion batteries (PIBs) are a promising candidate for low-cost and large-scale energy storage due to their abundant potassium resources. However, the potassiation-depotassiation of K+ presents a significant challenge due to its large ionic radius, which results in the pulverization of active materials and poor cyclability. Thus, researchers are exploring anode materials with a high specific capacity, long cyclability, and excellent rate capability. In this context, alloy-type anode materials are exceptional candidates due to their high theoretical capacity and low working potential. Nonetheless, the large volume expansion of active materials limits their practical application. This review discusses various strategies for overcoming these challenges, including nanostructure design, heterostructure design, alloy engineering, and compositing. The review provides a comprehensive overview of the current state of research on alloy-based anodes for PIBs and offers insights into promising directions for future work toward commercializing PIBs.","PeriodicalId":21863,"journal":{"name":"Solar Energy Materials","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74424176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Recent advances in lithiophilic materials: material design and prospects for lithium metal anode application","authors":"Jiaxiang Liu, Nanbiao Pei, Xueying Yang, Ruiyang Li, Haiming Hua, Peng Zhang, Jinbao Zhao","doi":"10.20517/energymater.2023.08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20517/energymater.2023.08","url":null,"abstract":"The rapid development of electronic technology and energy industry promotes the increasing desire for energy storage systems with high energy density, thus calling for the exploration of lithium metal anode. However, the enormous challenges, such as uncontrollable lithium deposition, side reaction, infinite volume change and dendrite generation, hinders its application. To address these problems, the deposition behavior of lithium must be exactly controlled and the anode/electrolyte interface must be stabilized. The deposition of lithium is a multi-step process influenced by multi-physical fields, where nucleation is the key to final morphology. Hence, increasing investigations have focused on the employment of lithiophilic materials that can regulate lithium nucleation in recent years. The lithiophilic materials introduced into the deposition hosts or solid electrolyte interphases can regulate the nucleation overpotential and facilitate uniform deposition. However, the concept of lithiophilicity is still undefined and the mechanism is still unrevealed. In this review, the recent advances in the regulation mechanisms of lithiophilicity are discussed, and the applications of lithiophilic materials in hosts and protective interphases are summarized. The in-depth exploration of lithiophilic materials can enhance our understanding of the deposition behavior of lithium and pave the way for practical lithium metal batteries.","PeriodicalId":21863,"journal":{"name":"Solar Energy Materials","volume":"191 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75073768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Advanced 3D-structured electrode for potassium metal anodes","authors":"Dongqing Liu, Jun Shen, Zelang Jian, Xingke Cai","doi":"10.20517/energymater.2023.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20517/energymater.2023.05","url":null,"abstract":"The potassium (K) metal anode, following the \"Holy Grail\" Li metal anode, is one of the most promising anode materials for next-generation batteries. In comparison with Li, K exhibits even more pronounced energy storage properties. However, it suffers from similar challenges as most alkali metal anodes, such as safety and cyclability issues. Borrowing strategies from Li/Na metal anodes, the three-dimensional (3D)-structured current collector has proven to be a universal and effective strategy. This study examines the recent research progress of 3D-structured electrodes for K metal anodes, focusing on the most commonly used host materials, including carbon-, metal-, and MXene-related electrode materials. Finally, existing challenges, various perspectives on the rational design of K metal anodes, and the future development of K batteries are presented.","PeriodicalId":21863,"journal":{"name":"Solar Energy Materials","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90053309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Two-dimensional nitrogen and phosphorus co-doped mesoporous carbon-graphene nanosheets anode for high-performance potassium-ion capacitor","authors":"Tong Li, Xinling Huang, Shulai Lei, Jing Zhang, X. Li, Chengxiang Wang, Zhiwei Zhang, Shijie Wang, Longwei Yin, Rutao Wang","doi":"10.20517/energymater.2022.93","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20517/energymater.2022.93","url":null,"abstract":"Heteroatom-doped carbon materials have high gravimetric potassium-ion storage capability because of their abundant active sites and defects. However, their practical applications toward potassium storage are limited by sluggish reaction kinetics and short cycling life owing to the large ionic radius of K+ and undesirable parasitic reactions. Herein, we report a new strategy that allows for bottom-up patterning of thin N/P co-doped carbon layers with a uniform mesoporous structure on two-dimensional graphene sheets. The highly porous architecture and N/P co-doping properties provide abundant active sites for K+, and the graphene sheets promote charge/electron transfer. This synergistic structure enables excellent K+ storage performance in terms of specific capacity (387.6 mAh g-1 at 0.05 A g-1), rate capability (over 5 A g-1), and cycling stability (70% after 3,000 cycles). As a proof of concept, a potassium-ion capacitor assembled using this carbon anode yields a high energy density of 107 Wh kg-1, a maximum power density of 18.3 kW kg-1, and ultra-long cycling stability over 40,000 cycles.","PeriodicalId":21863,"journal":{"name":"Solar Energy Materials","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86180154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Revealing energy storage mechanism of CsPbBr3 perovskite for ultra-stable symmetric supercapacitors","authors":"","doi":"10.20517/energymater.2022.81","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20517/energymater.2022.81","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21863,"journal":{"name":"Solar Energy Materials","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72715296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Energy Materials: Structure, Properties and Applications","authors":"","doi":"10.1007/978-981-99-3866-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-3866-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21863,"journal":{"name":"Solar Energy Materials","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73821489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enhanced all-climate sodium-ion batteries performance in a low-defect and Na-enriched Prussian blue analogue cathode by nickel substitution","authors":"","doi":"10.20517/energymater.2022.71","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20517/energymater.2022.71","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21863,"journal":{"name":"Solar Energy Materials","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78623488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Recent processing of interaction mechanisms of single metallic atom/clusters in energy electrocatalysis","authors":"Yifan Wei, Huicong Xia, Wenfu Yan, Jia-Nan Zhang","doi":"10.20517/energymater.2023.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20517/energymater.2023.13","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding the interactions between single metallic atom/clusters (SMACs) has been taken to an unprecedented level, due to the delicate conditions required to produce exotic phenomena in electrode materials, such as thermocatalysis, electrocatalysis, and energy storage devices. Recently, state-of-the-art synthesis methods, such as one-step pyrolysis and multistep pyrolysis, have been developed for SMACs. Herein the interactions between SMACs such as synergetic, charge redistribution effects, and mutual assistance effects, are studied. SMACs have the advantage of maximum utilization of atoms and scattered active sites compared to single metal atoms, and they also have flexible and tunable atom clusters. SMACs have been widely developed and have shown excellent catalytic performance in electrocatalysis. Herein, the self-interaction between SMACs and their catalytic mechanisms are systematically described. The challenges in current synthesis strategies, catalytic mechanisms, and industrial applications of SMACs are analyzed, and a possible synthesis method for SMACs is proposed.","PeriodicalId":21863,"journal":{"name":"Solar Energy Materials","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83690609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}