Nanostructured Ti-based anode materials for Na-ion batteries
With the shortage of fossil energy and global climate change, renewable energy sources offer the most promising solutions to these challenges. However, the intermittence of energy sources such as solar and wind requires sustainable energy storage technologies. Nowadays, electrochemical energy storag...
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| Published in | Journal of materials chemistry. A, Materials for energy and sustainability Vol. 4; no. 31; pp. 121 - 1213 |
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| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | English |
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2016
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| Summary: | With the shortage of fossil energy and global climate change, renewable energy sources offer the most promising solutions to these challenges. However, the intermittence of energy sources such as solar and wind requires sustainable energy storage technologies. Nowadays, electrochemical energy storage technologies and applications have attracted much attention, including portable electric devices, electric vehicles and smart power grids. Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) have been widely applied in these areas because of their safety, portability and high energy density. Nevertheless, the resources of lithium are limited and the vast consumption of lithium has pushed up the price of lithium compounds, urging people to search for resourceful materials. Sodium can be a promising alternative due to its high abundance and low cost. Furthermore, titanium-based materials have become a hot spot for anode materials in sodium-ion batteries (SIBs), with their advantages of high safety and structural stability. In this review, we summarize the recent advances in Ti-based anode materials for SIB applications. We highlight the design and engineering of Ti-based nanoarchitectures, especially emphasizing the effective enhancement in performance and the related sodium storage mechanism.
The recent developments of nanostructured Ti-based anode materials for Na-ion batteries are summarized and discussed. |
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| Bibliography: | Ms. Yueni Mei is a Ph.D. candidate in Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Her research interests focus mainly on developing nanostructured Ti-based oxides for electrochemical energy storage batteries. Prof. Yun-Hui Huang received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. from Peking University. In 2000, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Peking University. From 2002 to 2004, he worked as an associate professor in Fudan University and a JSPS fellow at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. He then worked with Prof. John B. Goodenough at the University of Texas in Austin for more than three years. In 2008, he became a chair professor of materials science at Huazhong University of Science and Technology. His research group works on batteries for energy storage and conversion. Prof. Xianluo Hu is a full professor of Huazhong University of Science and Technology. He received his Ph.D. from Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2007. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Department of Chemistry at CUHK from 2007 to 2008. He held the postdoctoral JSPS fellowship at National Institute of Materials Science (NIMS) in Japan from 2008 to 2009. He joined the faculty of School of Materials Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2009. His current research is focused on advanced functional materials for rechargeable batteries and supercapacitors. ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 |
| ISSN: | 2050-7488 2050-7496 |
| DOI: | 10.1039/c6ta04611h |