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Graphene Materials for Sustainable Energy Applications: A Contemporary Perspective

Carbon Energy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Graphene has garnered significant attention as a promising material with great potential for contributing to sustainable energy initiatives, such as RE100 (100% renewable energy initiative) and CF100 (100% carbon‐free initiative). This review aims to explore the potential of graphene for advancing renewable energy applications by highlighting
Niraj Kumar, Seul‐Yi Lee, Roop L. Mahajan, Soo‐Jin Park   +3 more
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Operando investigation of polysulfide retention approaches in magnesium-sulfur batteries [PDF]

, 2019
To date the lithium-ion battery (LIB) is the dominant technology for electrical energy storage powering most electronic devices. However, they approach their capacity limits and with increasing safety and ecological concerns other battery systems have ...
Nguyen, Duc Hien
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Oxygen‐Doped MoS2 with Expanded Interlayer Spacing for Rapid and Stable Polysulfide Conversion

Advanced Science
Lithium–sulfur batteries face challenges such as the polysulfide shuttle effect and sluggish redox kinetics, leading to poor sulfur utilization and limited cyclic stability. Herein, an oxygen‐doped engineering approach is presented to achieve pillar‐free
Wenqi Yan, Jinglin Xian, Shunan Zhang, Jiarui Zhang, Kaisi Liu, Jin‐Lin Yang, Feng Tao, Ruiping Liu, Qi Liu, Peihua Yang   +9 more
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Engineered Carbon Dots as Multifunctional Nanoplatforms for Next‐Generation High‐Performance Advanced Batteries

Carbon Energy, EarlyView.
Herein, we mainly summarize the characteristics of the main types of carbon dots (CDs), analyze the strategies for improving advanced batteries' performance via incorporating CDs, comprehensively summarize recent applications of CDs in the main components (electrode, electrolyte, and separator) of advanced batteries, and propose the technical ...
Chuang Jiang, Jinlong Feng, Zhenjie Liu, Ming Jia, Qingxi Hou, Wei Liu   +5 more
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Li‐Ion Storage and Diffusivity in Sulfurized Polybutadiene Containing Covalently Bound Sulfur as a Polysulfide Shuttle‐Free Cathode Material for Li−S Batteries [PDF]

In this work, a new polymer has been explored as a cathode host for lithium‐sulfur batteries (LSBs). Sulfurized polybutadiene materials were synthesized by a single‐step, scalable, and easily tailored heat treatment method.
Buchmeiser, M., Neumann, C., Boecker, M., Neumann, Christof, Prädel, Leon, Muduli, S., Prädel, L., Buchmeiser, Michael R., Muduli, Sadananda, Boecker, Marcel, Du, Q., Du, Qian   +11 more
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High-Performance Lithium-Sulfur Batteries With an IPA/AC Modified Separator

Frontiers in Chemistry, 2018
To inhibit the polysulfide-diffusion in lithium sulfur (Li-S) batteries and improve the electrochemical properties, the commercial polypropylene (PP) was decorated by an active carbon (AC) coating with lots of electronegative oxygenic functional group of
Yafang Guo, Yafang Guo, Aihua Jiang, Zengren Tao, Zhiyun Yang, Yaping Zeng, Jianrong Xiao, Jianrong Xiao   +7 more
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ZIF‐67 In Situ Grown PAN Spun Membrane Gel Electrolyte for Sodium‐Sulfur Batteries

Carbon Energy, EarlyView.
This illustration shows the fabrication process of a solid‐state electrolyte for sodium‐sulfur (Na‐S) batteries. First, a polyacrylonitrile (PAN) fibrous membrane is prepared. Next, ZIF‐67 is grown in situ on the PAN membrane to form PAN@ZIF‐67. Subsequently, polyethylene oxide (PEO) is introduced into PAN@ZIF‐67 to obtain the composite electrolyte PEO/
Haowei Shi, Fengjin Han, Binghao Chen, Qiaohong Peng, Hua Yuan   +4 more
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Conductive Polymer-Based Interlayers in Restraining the Polysulfide Shuttle of Lithium–Sulfur Batteries

Molecules
Lithium–sulfur batteries (LSBs) are considered a promising candidate for next-generation energy storage devices due to the advantages of high theoretical specific capacity, abundant resources and being environmentally friendly. However, the severe shuttle effect of polysulfides causes the low utilization of active substances and rapid capacity fading ...
Xincheng Hu, Xiaoshuang Zhu, Zhongshuai Ran, Shenghao Liu, Yongya Zhang, Hua Wang, Wei Wei   +6 more
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Infinite Functional Versatility, Formidable Limits: Evaluating Gallium‐Based Liquid Metals in Rechargeable Batteries

Carbon Energy, EarlyView.
Beyond the hype surrounding the self‐healing properties of gallium‐based liquid metals (Ga‐LMs), this perspective critically examines their functional roles in metal‐ion batteries, highlighting both their underlying merits and the often‐overlooked challenges, including non‐representative design and testing configurations, performance overestimations ...
Turly P. P. Sumanasekara, Petar Jovanović, Ali Zavabeti, Dan Yang, Mainak Majumder, Anthony F. Hollenkamp, Torben Daeneke, Mahdokht Shaibani   +7 more
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Atomic tuning of TixCr1−xN catalysts to enhance the polysulfide trapping and conversion in lithium–sulfur batteries

Nano Research
Lithium–sulfur (Li–S) batteries face critical challenges, including sluggish polysulfide redox kinetics and the shuttle effect. This study presents a novel self-supporting carbon nanofibers (CNFs) decorated with TixCr1−xN (TCN) solid–solution ...
Jiyuan Zhang, Weiye Zhang, Jiarui Xue, Nan Zhu, Yunping Ge, Zhibin Lei, Qi Li, Xuexia He, Zonghuai Liu, Jie Sun   +9 more
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