scholarly journals Polymer Electrode Materials for Sodium-ion Batteries

Materials ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 2567 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qinglan Zhao ◽  
Andrew Whittaker ◽  
X. Zhao

Sodium-ion batteries are promising alternative electrochemical energy storage devices due to the abundance of sodium resources. One of the challenges currently hindering the development of the sodium-ion battery technology is the lack of electrode materials suitable for reversibly storing/releasing sodium ions for a sufficiently long lifetime. Redox-active polymers provide opportunities for developing advanced electrode materials for sodium-ion batteries because of their structural diversity and flexibility, surface functionalities and tenability, and low cost. This review provides a short yet concise summary of recent developments in polymer electrode materials for sodium-ion batteries. Challenges facing polymer electrode materials for sodium-ion batteries are identified and analyzed. Strategies for improving polymer electrochemical performance are discussed. Future research perspectives in this important field are projected.

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (39) ◽  
pp. 18920-18927 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhongtao Li ◽  
Jianze Feng ◽  
Han Hu ◽  
Yunfa Dong ◽  
Hao Ren ◽  
...  

The natural abundance of sodium resources makes sodium-ion batteries a potential and promising alternative to lithium ion battery technology for large-scale energy storage application.


Materials ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 703 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qi Li ◽  
Michael Horn ◽  
Yinong Wang ◽  
Jennifer MacLeod ◽  
Nunzio Motta ◽  
...  

Supercapacitors are a highly promising class of energy storage devices due to their high power density and long life cycle. Conducting polymers (CPs) and organic molecules are potential candidates for improving supercapacitor electrodes due to their low cost, large specific pseudocapacitance and facile synthesis methods. Graphene, with its unique two-dimensional structure, shows high electrical conductivity, large specific surface area and outstanding mechanical properties, which makes it an excellent material for lithium ion batteries, fuel cells and supercapacitors. The combination of CPs and graphene as electrode material is expected to boost the properties of supercapacitors. In this review, we summarize recent reports on three different CP/graphene composites as electrode materials for supercapacitors, discussing synthesis and electrochemical performance. Novel flexible and wearable devices based on CP/graphene composites are introduced and discussed, with an eye to recent developments and challenges for future research directions.


2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (21) ◽  
pp. 8910-8921
Author(s):  
Abdul Majid ◽  
Khuzaima Hussain ◽  
Salah Ud-Din Khan ◽  
Shahab Ud-Din Khan

The application of sodium ion batteries (NIB) for use as rechargeable energy storage devices is yet under research due to limited knowledge on electrode materials.


2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 1075-1101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haiying Che ◽  
Suli Chen ◽  
Yingying Xie ◽  
Hong Wang ◽  
Khalil Amine ◽  
...  

Electrolyte design or functional development is very effective at promoting the performance of sodium-ion batteries, which are attractive for electrochemical energy storage devices due to abundant sodium resources and low cost. The roadmap of the sodium ion batteries based on electrolyte materials was drawn firstly and shows that the electrolyte type decides the electrochemical window and energy density.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronnie Mogensen ◽  
Simon Colbin ◽  
Ashok Menon ◽  
Erik Björklund ◽  
Reza Younesi

Sodium-ion batteries based on all-naturally-abundant elements, in which no cobalt, nickel, copper, and fluorine is used, can lead to a major breakthrough in making batteries more sustainable. Safety aspects -in particular flammability of electrolytes- in the state-of-theart battery technology is another important concern, especially for applications in which large numbers of cells are employed. Non-flammable battery electrolytes studied so far are based on highly fluorinated compounds or high salt concentrations, which suffer from high cost and toxicity. We here propose an electrolyte based on a single solvent and lowcost and fluorine-free salt at the lower range of “standard” concentrations. Our results show -for the first time- that sodium bis(oxalato)borate (NaBOB) is soluble in the nonflammable solvent trimethyl phosphate (TMP). This finding enables a non-flammable electrolyte with high ionic conductivity and promising electrochemical performance in fullcell sodium-ion batteries. An electrolyte of 0.5 M NaBOB in TMP provides ionic conductivity of 5 mS cm-1 at room temperature, which is comparable to commonly used electrolytes based on sodium hexafluorophosphate (NaPF6) and organic carbonate solvents. The proposed electrolyte shows the Coulombic efficiency of above 80% in the first cycle, which increased to about 97% from the second cycle in sodium-ion battery fullcells consisting of a hard carbon anode and Prussian white cathode. This work opens up new opportunities to design safe electrolytes which can further be optimized with electrolyte additives such as vinylene carbonate for industrial applications.<br>


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yongzheng Fang ◽  
Yingying Zhang ◽  
Chenxu Miao ◽  
Kai Zhu ◽  
Yong Chen ◽  
...  

AbstractSodium ion batteries and capacitors have demonstrated their potential applications for next-generation low-cost energy storage devices. These devices's rate ability is determined by the fast sodium ion storage behavior in electrode materials. Herein, a defective TiO2@reduced graphene oxide (M-TiO2@rGO) self-supporting foam electrode is constructed via a facile MXene decomposition and graphene oxide self-assembling process. The employment of the MXene parent phase exhibits distinctive advantages, enabling defect engineering, nanoengineering, and fluorine-doped metal oxides. As a result, the M-TiO2@rGO electrode shows a pseudocapacitance-dominated hybrid sodium storage mechanism. The pseudocapacitance-dominated process leads to high capacity, remarkable rate ability, and superior cycling performance. Significantly, an M-TiO2@rGO//Na3V2(PO4)3 sodium full cell and an M-TiO2@rGO//HPAC sodium ion capacitor are fabricated to demonstrate the promising application of M-TiO2@rGO. The sodium ion battery presents a capacity of 177.1 mAh g−1 at 500 mA g−1 and capacity retention of 74% after 200 cycles. The sodium ion capacitor delivers a maximum energy density of 101.2 Wh kg−1 and a maximum power density of 10,103.7 W kg−1. At 1.0 A g−1, it displays an energy retention of 84.7% after 10,000 cycles.


MRS Advances ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (57-58) ◽  
pp. 2917-2927
Author(s):  
L.A. Rodríguez-Guadarrama ◽  
J. Escorcia-García ◽  
E. Quiroga-González ◽  
I.L. Alonso-Lemus

Sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) have emerged as a promising alternative for energy storage. In this work, it has been synthesized a nanocomposite material of SbxSbySz/Carbon nanofibers (CNFs) using low-cost synthesizing methods. First, CNFs have been obtained by electrospinning method with subsequent carbonation at 700°C. Afterward, a SbxSbySz thin coating is deposited on the CNFs by chemical bath deposition technique to obtain the SbxSbySz/CNFs. In order to obtain the SnSb2S4 crystalline phase, the composite is heated at 300°C in nitrogen atmosphere. The evaluation of this nanocomposite as the anode for SIBs has a reversible discharge capacity of 180 mAh g-1 and a columbic efficiency of 61.4% after 9 cycles. On the other hand, the resistance associated to the charge transfer to the CNFs decreases from 115.03 Ω to 77.86 Ω due to the incorporation of SnxSbySz. Finally, an easy and inexpensive route has been proposed for the synthesis of SbxSbySz/CNFs composite with great potential to be used as anode material for SIBs.


2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (37) ◽  
pp. 19011-19017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boyang Ruan ◽  
Jun Wang ◽  
Dongqi Shi ◽  
Yanfei Xu ◽  
Shulei Chou ◽  
...  

Sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) have been attracting intensive attention at present as the most promising alternative to lithium-ion batteries in large-scale electrical energy storage applications, due to the low-cost and natural abundance of sodium.


Crystals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 660
Author(s):  
Ujjwala Chothe ◽  
Chitra Ugale ◽  
Milind Kulkarni ◽  
Bharat Kale

Sodium-ion batteries have potential as energy-storage devices owing to an abundant source with low cost. However, most electrode materials still suffer from poor conductivity, sluggish kinetics, and huge volume variation. It is still challenging to explore apt electrode materials for sodium-ion battery applications to avoid the pulverization of electrodes induced by reversible intercalation of large sodium ions. Herein, we report a single-step facile, scalable, low-cost, and high-yield approach to prepare a hybrid material; i.e., MoS2 with graphene (MoS2-G). Due to the space-confined effect, thin-layered MoS2 nanosheets with a loose stacking feature are anchored with the graphene sheets. The semienclosed hybrid architecture of the electrode enhances the integrity and stability during the intercalation of Na+ ions. Particularly, during galvanostatic study the assembled Na-ion cell delivered a specific capacity of 420 mAhg−1 at 50 mAg−1, and 172 mAhg−1 at current density 200 mAg−1 after 200 cycles. The MoS2-G hybrid excels in performance due to residual oxygen groups in graphene, which improves the electronic conductivity and decreases the Na+ diffusion barrier during electrochemical reaction, in comparison with a pristine one.


Nanoscale ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (42) ◽  
pp. 20307-20314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Jia ◽  
BiJun Li ◽  
Shengquan Duan ◽  
Zhao Cui ◽  
Hongtao Gao

The design and fabrication of new high-performance electrode materials are critical for driving the development of next-generation energy conversion and energy storage devices.


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