Zheng Li , Bo-Quan Li , Chen-Xi Bi , Xi-Yao Li , Meng Zhao , Qiang Zhang
{"title":"A review of lithium–sulfur batteries at different working conditions: The role of ambient temperature, external force, and electromagnetic field","authors":"Zheng Li , Bo-Quan Li , Chen-Xi Bi , Xi-Yao Li , Meng Zhao , Qiang Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.mser.2025.100955","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mser.2025.100955","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Lithium–sulfur (Li–S) batteries are promising energy storage devices due to their theoretical energy density up to 2600 Wh kg<sup>−1</sup>. The working condition has significant impact on Li–S battery performances and has attracted increasing attention recently. This review comprehensively describes the environmental effects on Li–S batteries in terms of ambient temperature, external force, and electromagnetic field. A timeline is presented in the first place for an overall understanding of this research field. The environmental effects on sulfur cathode, lithium anode, and full cell are respectively presented regarding the electrochemical mechanism and the performances in practical devices. Finally, perspectives on the challenges and opportunities of regulating the working environment of Li–S batteries are presented to inspire future researches.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":386,"journal":{"name":"Materials Science and Engineering: R: Reports","volume":"164 ","pages":"Article 100955"},"PeriodicalIF":31.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143508812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jing Shi , Ying Li , Keyan Zhang , Chuan Wu , Ying Bai
{"title":"Approaching industry-adaptable silicon-based anodes via fundamental mechanism understanding","authors":"Jing Shi , Ying Li , Keyan Zhang , Chuan Wu , Ying Bai","doi":"10.1016/j.mser.2025.100954","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mser.2025.100954","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Silicon-based materials have garnered considerable attention for their application in high-energy-density lithium-ion batteries, attributed to their high theoretical capacity, cost-effectiveness, and environmental sustainability. However, despite numerous modification strategies proposed by researchers to address fundamental scientific issues such as volume expansion and solid electrolyte interface instability, achieving widespread industrial-scale application of silicon-based materials remains a significant challenge due to limitations in specific capacity, coulombic efficiency, safety, and calendar life. This review offers a comprehensive and systematic analysis of the reaction mechanism of silicon-based materials throughout charge and discharge cycles, clarifying the roots of fundamental scientific challenges and practical obstacles. Additionally, the current research progress and proposed insights for future developments are summarized. Overall, a deeper understanding of the fundamental mechanisms of silicon-based materials can contribute to optimizing microstructures and developing silicon materials with superior electrochemical performance, and further effectively advancing the industrialization of silicon-based materials.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":386,"journal":{"name":"Materials Science and Engineering: R: Reports","volume":"164 ","pages":"Article 100954"},"PeriodicalIF":31.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143473920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lei Wen , Ying Shi , Li-Wang Ye , Chunyang Wang , Feng Li
{"title":"Progress of lithium manganese iron phosphate in blended cathode materials","authors":"Lei Wen , Ying Shi , Li-Wang Ye , Chunyang Wang , Feng Li","doi":"10.1016/j.mser.2025.100952","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mser.2025.100952","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Cathode materials are crucial for lithium-ion battery (LIB) performance, significantly affecting cost, energy density, cycle life, rate performance, and safety. However, a single cathode usually cannot satisfy diverse performance requirements. With the development of LIBs technology, blending two or more different cathode materials can achieve a more balanced electrochemical performance than a single component. The olivine-type LiMn<sub>x</sub>Fe<sub>1-x</sub>PO<sub>4</sub> material is a derivative of LiFePO<sub>4</sub>, and LiMn<sub>x</sub>Fe<sub>1-x</sub>PO<sub>4</sub> is promising for LIBs due to its high energy density, low cost, environmental friendliness, and safety. Its voltage plateau also matches that of oxide-type cathode materials, making it suitable for blended cathode materials systems. This paper reviews the characteristics of LiMn<sub>x</sub>Fe<sub>1-x</sub>PO<sub>4</sub> cathode material and its electrochemical performance when combined with other oxide cathode materials to form blended materials. Based on current results, it also discusses future research directions, suggesting strategies such as combining LiMn<sub>x</sub>Fe<sub>1-x</sub>PO<sub>4</sub> with higher Mn content and optimizing battery fabrication processes to enhance safety, energy density, and wide-temperature performance of blended cathode battery systems.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":386,"journal":{"name":"Materials Science and Engineering: R: Reports","volume":"164 ","pages":"Article 100952"},"PeriodicalIF":31.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143473921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chaochao Wei , Zhongkai Wu , Siwu Li , Ziling Jiang , Lin Li , Xinxin Wang , Peng Ouyang , Ziyu Lu , Miao Deng , Hui Yang , Chuang Yu
{"title":"Ultra-efficient and stable Janus interface to construct high-performance sulfide-based all-solid-state lithium metal batteries","authors":"Chaochao Wei , Zhongkai Wu , Siwu Li , Ziling Jiang , Lin Li , Xinxin Wang , Peng Ouyang , Ziyu Lu , Miao Deng , Hui Yang , Chuang Yu","doi":"10.1016/j.mser.2025.100950","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mser.2025.100950","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>All-solid-state lithium metal batteries (ASSLMBs) are expected to replace traditional lithium-ion batteries due to their excellent safety and high energy density. However, the poor interfacial stability between lithium metal and solid electrolyte is a major obstacle. Here, we design a stable interface with “dredging+blocking” dual protection. The interface is composed of a composite lithium anode and a functionalized electrolyte. During lithium-ion plating/stripping, the composite lithium anode of the hybrid SEI interface has a good electron/ion conductive network to ensure the rapid transmission of electrons in the lithium anode, enhance the bulk diffusion of lithium, and play a role in “dredging” the distribution of lithium ions. When lithium dendrites further grow along the interparticle space of the electrolyte, especially at high current density, the functional electrolyte can be used as a second protective line. By reacting with lithium metal, consuming lithium, and further forming a stable interface, it plays a role in “blocking” lithium dendrite growth. Therefore, the symmetrical battery achieves a stable cycle (1400 h, 0.5 mA cm<sup>−2</sup>) and an ultra-high critical current density (5.2 mA cm<sup>−2</sup>). ASSLMBs achieve long-cycle performance (700 cycles, 70 % capacity retention) and good rate performance in a wide temperature range. This dual modification strategy significantly enhances lithium metal compatibility, offering a viable path for the development of high-performance ASSLMBs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":386,"journal":{"name":"Materials Science and Engineering: R: Reports","volume":"164 ","pages":"Article 100950"},"PeriodicalIF":31.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143452954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Piezotronics and Tribotronics of 2D Materials","authors":"Yifei Wang , Qijun Sun , Zhong Lin Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.mser.2025.100951","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mser.2025.100951","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Two-dimensional (2D) materials, featuring superior electronic/thermal/mechanical properties, offer a paradigm shift in material science for boosting the rapid development of various sophisticated electronics. Combining with 2D materials, emerging piezotronics and tribotronics can further utilize external mechanical stimuli to modulate their transport properties in an active and direct fashion, delivering more diverse and versatile possibilities in the post-Moore era. Starting with the origin and development of piezotronics and tribotronics with 2D materials, this review provides a comprehensive investigation of their working mechanism, piezotronics in 2D materials, and research progress on piezoelectric nanogenerator (PENG)/triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) modulated 2D field-effect transistors (FETs) and their broad applications. First, this review focuses on non-centrosymmetric piezoelectric materials and interface engineering to endow 2D materials with piezoelectric properties, and discusses diverse structural designs and applications in environmental/mechanical sensing. Second, the applications of PENG/TENG modulated 2D FETs are discussed regarding mechanical sensing, band structure engineering, artificial synapses, and so on. Finally, the advantages of piezotronics and tribotronics of 2D materials from material to device level are summarized in terms of structural design and functionality. Challenges related to the preparation and processing, reliability and stability of the devices are also pointed out. Synergistic integration of 2D materials with piezo/tribotronics is expected to be a significant complement to current information technology to go beyond Moore's Law, presenting great promise in self-powered smart devices/systems, adaptive human-robot interaction, edge-intelligent artificial prosthesis, etc.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":386,"journal":{"name":"Materials Science and Engineering: R: Reports","volume":"164 ","pages":"Article 100951"},"PeriodicalIF":31.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143444226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Geon-Tae Park , Jung-In Yoon , Gwang-Ho Kim , Nam-Yung Park , Byung-Chun Park , Yang-Kook Sun
{"title":"Ni-rich cathode materials enabled by cracked-surface protection strategy for high-energy lithium batteries","authors":"Geon-Tae Park , Jung-In Yoon , Gwang-Ho Kim , Nam-Yung Park , Byung-Chun Park , Yang-Kook Sun","doi":"10.1016/j.mser.2025.100945","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mser.2025.100945","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The fabrication of high-density electrodes for practical Li-ion batteries requires a high calendaring pressure. However, inevitable cathode particle fracturing increases the cathode–electrolyte contact area, thereby inducing undesirable side reactions that deteriorate battery performance and safety. To resolve this issue, we propose an intergranular protection strategy that can mitigate the crack-induced performance deterioration of Ni-rich cathodes. Our approach is primarily based on microstructure engineering. The introduction of fast interdiffusion pathways for F infusion enables the formation of F-rich species on the surfaces of internal grains. In addition, some F<sup>−</sup> is doped into the cathode crystal structure, promoting the formation of a structurally stable cation-ordered phase. The chemical and structural engineering of Li[Ni<sub>0.9</sub>Co<sub>0.05</sub>Mn<sub>0.05</sub>]O<sub>2</sub> protects the cracked surfaces from electrolyte attack and thus improves the electrochemical performance of the cathode. The proposed strategy can also reduce the gassing of Ni-rich cathodes. As the incorporation of only trace amounts of Mo and F plays a crucial role in battery performance, this approach is promising for the development of advanced Ni-rich cathodes for future Li-ion batteries.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":386,"journal":{"name":"Materials Science and Engineering: R: Reports","volume":"164 ","pages":"Article 100945"},"PeriodicalIF":31.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143437795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zhongqiang Wang , Qi Kang , Yuwei Chen , Xueying Zheng , Yangyang Huang , Shu-Chih Haw , Haifeng Wang , Zhiwei Hu , Wei Luo
{"title":"Extended-life SiOx/C||Ni-rich NCM batteries enabled by inner Helmholtz plane modulation with a self-assembled monolayer","authors":"Zhongqiang Wang , Qi Kang , Yuwei Chen , Xueying Zheng , Yangyang Huang , Shu-Chih Haw , Haifeng Wang , Zhiwei Hu , Wei Luo","doi":"10.1016/j.mser.2025.100948","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mser.2025.100948","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) with Ni-rich cathodes and Si-based anodes hold great promise for achieving high energy densities over 350 Wh kg<sup>−1</sup>. However, interfacial instability and crossover effects severely degrade their cycling life. The inner Helmholtz plane (IHP) layer, where molecules readily engage in electrochemical reactions, plays a critical role in interface chemistry. In this study, we construct a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) on LiNi<sub>0.8</sub>Co<sub>0.1</sub>Mn<sub>0.1</sub>O<sub>2</sub> (NCM) via a facile wet chemical process to regulate the IHP layer. The ordered SAM, composed of highly fluorinated thiol molecules, drastically weakens the affinity to carbonate molecules, producing IHP layers with fewer solvent components and effectively suppresses adverse side reactions. This alternation bolsters cathodic interfacial and structural stability, further mitigating the dissolution of transition metals and their crossover effects. As a result, the SAM-modified NCM cathodes exhibit a capacity retention of 90.5 %, outperforming unmodified NCM (72.5 %) upon 150 cycles at 0.2 C. More impressively, the SAM layer improves the capacity retention of SiO<sub><em>x</em></sub>/C||NCM full-cells from 48 % to 74 % over 500 cycles. This work provides a straightforward yet effective approach for enhancing interfacial stability in LIBs, offering valuable insights into interfacial chemistry regulation and advancing high-energy-density battery technologies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":386,"journal":{"name":"Materials Science and Engineering: R: Reports","volume":"163 ","pages":"Article 100948"},"PeriodicalIF":31.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143395224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Boqian Yi , Zhixuan Wei , Shiyu Yao , Shuoqing Zhao , Zhenhai Gao , Serguei Savilov , Gang Chen , Ze Xiang Shen , Fei Du
{"title":"Challenges and prospectives of sodium-containing solid-state electrolyte materials for rechargeable metal batteries","authors":"Boqian Yi , Zhixuan Wei , Shiyu Yao , Shuoqing Zhao , Zhenhai Gao , Serguei Savilov , Gang Chen , Ze Xiang Shen , Fei Du","doi":"10.1016/j.mser.2025.100949","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mser.2025.100949","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The development of functional sodium-containing solid-state batteries (SSBs) depends on advancing solid-state electrolyte (SSE) materials with high ionic conductivity and exceptional chemical-electrochemical stability, which continues to pose significant challenges. This review provides a comprehensive overview of various sodium-containing SSEs, including oxides, sulfides, halides, and polymers. It begins with a brief historical perspective on the evolution of each SSE type, followed by an in-depth analysis of the mechanisms governing ion transport. We then evaluate the relative advantages and limitations of these SSEs, focusing on their suitability for integration into sodium-containing battery systems. The characterization techniques used to decouple and understand the complex processes within SSBs are also discussed. Furthermore, we highlight the most promising solutions to the current challenges in SSE development, with particular emphasis on recent advancements in interfacial design aimed at enhancing battery performance. Finally, we explore potential future directions for the development of high-performance sodium-containing SSEs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":386,"journal":{"name":"Materials Science and Engineering: R: Reports","volume":"163 ","pages":"Article 100949"},"PeriodicalIF":31.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143386816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Qianying Li , Mingyuan Gao , Xueqian Sun , Xiaolin Wang , Dewei Chu , Wenlong Cheng , Yi Xi , Yuerui Lu
{"title":"All-in-one self-powered wearable biosensors systems","authors":"Qianying Li , Mingyuan Gao , Xueqian Sun , Xiaolin Wang , Dewei Chu , Wenlong Cheng , Yi Xi , Yuerui Lu","doi":"10.1016/j.mser.2025.100934","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mser.2025.100934","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Wearable biosensors capable of long-term operation facilitate future precision medicine and personalized health monitoring by in-situ acquisition, real-time processing, and continuous transmission of biological signals. Self-powered technologies provide effective strategies to achieve the above goals, but make the entire bioelectronic system more complex. Ultimately, challenges of material engineering, miniaturization, and performance enhancement converge into the all-in-one engineering of self-powered wearable biosensor systems. Matching the power output of the energy module with the power consumption requirements of the signal module is the basic prerequisite for achieving all-in-one design. This review takes power as the entry point to comprehensively analyze and summarize the mechanisms, performance ranges, enhancement strategies, application examples, and future prospects of self-powered wearable biosensors. We review the principles, engineering strategies, and capabilities in energy collection, management, and storage of current self-powered technologies to determine the output power range and methods for performance enhancement. Next, we discuss and compare the strategies and mechanisms for signal acquisition, processing, and transmission, focusing on the performance, size, wearability and enhancement strategies of each module. Most importantly, we summarize the four representative all-in-one engineering strategies in the system, covering design principles, basic materials, targeted parts, integration levels, advantages and disadvantages. Finally, we outline key challenges and potential solutions for six modules in preparation for intelligent and networked sensing.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":386,"journal":{"name":"Materials Science and Engineering: R: Reports","volume":"163 ","pages":"Article 100934"},"PeriodicalIF":31.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143349029","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jokūbas Surgailis , Prem D. Nayak , Lucas Q. Flagg , Christina J. Kousseff , Iain McCulloch , Lee J. Richter , Sahika Inal
{"title":"Water‐Induced Modulation of Bipolaron Formation in N-type Polymeric Mixed Conductors","authors":"Jokūbas Surgailis , Prem D. Nayak , Lucas Q. Flagg , Christina J. Kousseff , Iain McCulloch , Lee J. Richter , Sahika Inal","doi":"10.1016/j.mser.2025.100944","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.mser.2025.100944","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>N-type organic mixed ion-electron conductors (OMIECs) are a unique class of organic materials, capable of both transporting and coupling cations and electrons. While important for various devices operating in an aqueous electrolyte, understanding n-type mixed conduction remains challenging due to a lack of comprehensive data, which impedes the rational design of high performance electronic materials. Using a diverse array of in situ spectroscopy techniques, including an electrochemical spectro-gravimetric tool, Raman spectroscopy, and grazing-incidence wide angle X-Ray scattering, we investigate the electrochemical doping of two polymeric n-type OMIECs with differing oligoether side chain length. We find that the polymer films swell drastically during electrochemical reduction, with electrolyte uptake scaling proportionally to the length of the polar side chains, ultimately disrupting the crystalline structure. Electrolyte ingress in the film has two important consequences. First, the extent of water uptake during reduction governs the nature of polaronic species formed at the same doping voltage, which we studied by varying aqueous salt concentration and using ionic liquid electrolytes. Second, swelling regulates oxygen reduction reaction rates, revealing the importance of side-chain chemistry in controlling the electrochemical side reactions of the OMIECs. This study underscores the critical role of water, traditionally perceived as a passive element, in influencing the optoelectronic and electrochemical properties of OMIEC films and suggests in situ electrolyte permeation as a crucial material specification when designing n-type devices for electrochromic displays, energy storage, and catalysis.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":386,"journal":{"name":"Materials Science and Engineering: R: Reports","volume":"163 ","pages":"Article 100944"},"PeriodicalIF":31.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143274338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}