Transition metal nitrides for electrochemical energy applications
Transition metal nitrides (TMNs), by virtue of their unique electronic structure, high electrical conductivity, superior chemical stability, and excellent mechanical robustness, have triggered tremendous research interest over the past decade, and showed great potential for electrochemical energy co...
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| Published in | Chemical Society reviews Vol. 5; no. 2; pp. 1354 - 139 |
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| Main Authors | , , , , , , , , |
| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | English |
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England
Royal Society of Chemistry
21.01.2021
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| Summary: | Transition metal nitrides (TMNs), by virtue of their unique electronic structure, high electrical conductivity, superior chemical stability, and excellent mechanical robustness, have triggered tremendous research interest over the past decade, and showed great potential for electrochemical energy conversion and storage. However, bulk TMNs usually suffer from limited numbers of active sites and sluggish ionic kinetics, and eventually ordinary electrochemical performance. Designing nanostructured TMNs with tailored morphology and good dispersity has proved an effective strategy to address these issues, which provides a larger specific surface area, more abundant active sites, and shorter ion and mass transport distances over the bulk counterparts. Herein, the most up-to-date progress on TMN-based nanomaterials is comprehensively reviewed, focusing on geometric-structure design, electronic-structure engineering, and applications in electrochemical energy conversion and storage, including electrocatalysis, supercapacitors, and rechargeable batteries. Finally, we outline the future challenges of TMN-based nanomaterials and their possible research directions beyond electrochemical energy applications.
This review comprehensively summarizes the progress on the structural and electronic modulation of transition metal nitrides for electrochemical energy applications. |
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| Bibliography: | Hao Wang received his PhD degree in New Energy Science and Engineering from Soochow University under the co-guidance of Prof. Lijun Gao and Prof. Guifu Zou in 2018. During 2017-2018, he worked as a visiting researcher in the A. J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute, Drexel University, under the guidance of Prof. Yury Gogotsi. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Nanyang Technological University under the guidance of Prof. Jong-Min Lee. His research interests focus on the topochemical synthesis of 2D materials for electrochemical energy applications. Jianmin Li obtained his BS and PhD degree in Materials Science from Donghua University under the guidance of Prof. Hongzhi Wang in 2014 and 2019, respectively. From 2017 to 2018, he worked as a joint PhD student at the A. J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute, Drexel University, under the guidance of Prof. Yury Gogotsi. He joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at National University of Singapore as a Postdoctoral Researcher in 2019. His research interests focus on the regulation of ionic intercalation toward supercapacitors and on-chip energy storage and multi-function devices. Ke Li is currently a postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Valeria Nicolosi's group at Trinity College Dublin (Ireland). He received his PhD in Chemistry and Physics of Polymers from Fudan University (China) in 2019. During 2017-2018, he worked as a visiting researcher at the A. J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute, Drexel University (USA) under the guidance of Prof. Yury Gogotsi. His research interests focus on the synthesis of nanomaterials for electrochemical energy applications. Jong-Min Lee received his PhD degree at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University. He worked in the Chemical Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and at the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, as a postdoctoral fellow. Currently, he is an Associate Professor in the School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at Nanyang Technological University. His research interests are electrochemistry, green chemistry, and nanotechnology. Valeria Nicolosi holds the Chair of Nanomaterials & Advanced Microscopy at the School of Chemistry, Trinity College Dublin. She received her BSc degree in Chemistry from the University of Catania (Italy) in 2001 and PhD in Physics from Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) in 2006. She moved to the University of Oxford in 2008 as a Marie Curie Fellow and she returned to Trinity College Dublin as an ERC Research Professor in 2012. Her research group works on the processing and cutting-edge electron microscopy characterization of low-dimensional nanomaterials, and their electrochemical energy applications. Xu Xiao received his BS degree in Physics and PhD degree in Physical Electronics from Huazhong University of Science and Technology under the guidance of Prof. Jun Zhou in 2011 and 2016, respectively. He then joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Drexel University as a Postdoctoral Researcher under the guidance of Prof. Yury Gogotsi. Currently, he is a Professor in the School of Electronic Science and Engineering at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. His research focuses on synthesis of two-dimensional transition metal nitrides and carbides for applications in terahertz/millimeter wave and energy storage. ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 14 content type line 23 |
| ISSN: | 0306-0012 1460-4744 1460-4744 |
| DOI: | 10.1039/d0cs00415d |