Electrospun materials for lithium and sodium rechargeable batteries: from structure evolution to electrochemical performance

Electrospinning has been growing increasingly versatile as a promising method to fabricate one dimensional (1D) designed architectures for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) and sodium-ion batteries (SIBs). In this review, we have summarized almost all the progress in electrospun electrode materials for L...

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Published inEnergy & environmental science Vol. 8; no. 6; pp. 166 - 1681
Main Authors Wang, Heng-Guo, Yuan, Shuang, Ma, De-Long, Zhang, Xin-Bo, Yan, Jun-Min
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 01.01.2015
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Summary:Electrospinning has been growing increasingly versatile as a promising method to fabricate one dimensional (1D) designed architectures for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) and sodium-ion batteries (SIBs). In this review, we have summarized almost all the progress in electrospun electrode materials for LIBs, covering the structure evolution from solid nanofibers into designed 1D nanomaterials, then 1D composites with carbon nanofibers (CNFs), and finally into flexible electrode materials with CNFs. Such a development trend in electrospun electrode materials would meet the battery technology and the strong consumer market demand for portable, ultrathin/lightweight and flexible devices. Along with the avenues of research about electrospun electrode materials for LIBs, electrospun electrode materials for SIBs are a rapidly growing and enormously promising field. As a timely overview, recent studies on electrospun SIB electrode materials are also highlighted. Finally, the emerging challenges and future developments of electrospun electrode materials are concisely provided. We hope this review will provide some inspiration to researchers over a broad range of topics, especially in the fields of energy, chemistry, physics, nanoscience and nanotechnology. This review summarizes the recent progress in electrospun electrode materials for lithium- and sodium-ion batteries.
Bibliography:Dr Jun-Min Yan received her PhD degree in inorganic chemistry from Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2006. After that, she worked as a JSPS and NEDO fellow at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan. At the beginning of 2010, she joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Jilin University as a professor of "New Century Excellent Talents in Universities of Ministry of Education of China". Her current research interests focus on the development of new functional materials for (renewable) energy storage and conversion applications.
De-Long Ma received his PhD degree in 2014 from Jilin University. Currently Dr Ma is a Postdoctoral researcher at Beijing University of Technology. He is current working on the design and synthesis of nano-materials for Li-ion and Na-ion batteries.
Heng-Guo Wang received his PhD degree in 2011 from Jilin University. From 2011 to 2013, he worked at Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. Currently Dr Wang is an Associate Professor at the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Changchun University of Science and Technology. His research interests focus on advanced functional nanomaterials, and their applications in energy storage and conversion fields, such as lithium-ion batteries, sodium-ion batteries, and supercapacitors.
Dr Xin-Bo Zhang (1978) joined Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry (CIAC) as a professor of the "Hundred Talents Program" of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in the spring of 2010. He received his PhD degree in inorganic chemistry from CIAC and was granted the CAS Presidential Scholarship Award in 2005. Then, during 2005-2010, he worked as a JSPS and NEDO fellow at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (Kansai Center), Japan. His interests mainly focus on functional inorganic materials for energy storage and conversion in fuel cells and batteries, especially lithium-air batteries.
Shuang Yuan received his Master degree in Condensed Matter Physics from Northeastern University of China in 2012. He is currently pursuing his PhD in Materials Science at Jilin University of China. His current interests include the design, synthesis and characterization of novel and advanced materials for room temperature sodium-ion batteries.
ISSN:1754-5692
1754-5706
DOI:10.1039/c4ee03912b