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High Performance Sodium Rechargeable Batteries and Beyond
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High Performance Sodium Rechargeable Batteries and Beyond

A special issue of Batteries (ISSN 2313-0105). This special issue belongs to the section "Battery Materials and Interfaces: Anode, Cathode, Separators and Electrolytes or Others".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 August 2024 | Viewed by 4566

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Zhe Hu

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College of Materials Science and Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518055, China
Interests: Li/Na/Zn ion batteries; Li/Na-CO2 batteries
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Dr. Lingfei Zhao

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Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2500, Australia
Interests: Li metal batteries; Na metal batteries; Na-ion batteries; Na/S batteries
Dr. Jian Peng

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Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia
Interests: rechargeable batteries; electrode materials; metal–organic frameworks; energy storage devices; operando characterizations
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Sodium batteries (including sodium-ion, sodium-sulfur, and sodium-air batteries) are considered feasible alternatives to commercial Li-ion batteries, and hold great potential for grid-scale energy storage with low prices and high performance. Great achievements have been made for the early commercialization of sodium rechargeable batteries, while challenges including low initial Coulombic efficiency, insufficient cycling stability, and unsatisfactory all-climate performance remain. Rational material design and in-depth understanding of the mechanisms of sodium rechargeable batteries and beyond are, therefore, very meaningful and highly desirable.

In this Special Issue, we are looking for contributions including but not limited to:

  • Novel electrode material design with new understanding and high performance;
  • Rational electrolyte design via solvation structure engineering;
  • Artificial solid-electrode interphase engineering;
  • Quasi-solid and solid-state batteries;
  • Practical approaches for high performance full cells;
  • Multiscale mechanism understanding of the batteries;
  • Advanced characterizations for the batteries;
  • Other batteries beyond with exciting new findings.

As guest editors of this Special Issue, we are writing to encourage you to contribute your recent piece of work that is related; rapid communications, research articles, reviews, and perspectives are all welcome. We anticipate with pleasure receiving your submission of your latest research work on rechargeable sodium batteries and beyond.

Prof. Dr. Zhe Hu
Dr. Lingfei Zhao
Dr. Jian Peng
Guest Editors

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Batteries is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2700 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • sodium-ion battery
  • cathode
  • prussian Blue Analog
  • oxide
  • polyanion
  • sodium-sulfur battery
  • sulfur cathode
  • anode
  • hard carbon
  • metal anode
  • electrolyte
  • solvation structure
  • solid-state
  • Zn-ion battery
  • interface
  • mechanism

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Na4Fe3(PO4)2(P2O7)@C/Ti3C2Tx Hybrid Cathode Materials with Enhanced Performances for Sodium-Ion Batteries
by Ao Xiang, Deyou Shi, Peng Chen, Zhongjun Li, Quan Tu, Dahui Liu, Xiangguang Zhang, Jun Lu, Yan Jiang, Ze Yang and Pei Hu
Batteries 2024, 10(4), 121; https://doi.org/10.3390/batteries10040121 - 3 Apr 2024
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Developing cost-effective cathode materials is conducive to accelerating the commercialization of sodium-ion batteries. Na4Fe3(PO4)2P2O7 (NFPP) has attracted extensive attention owning to its high theoretical capacity, stable structure, and low cost of raw [...] Read more.
Developing cost-effective cathode materials is conducive to accelerating the commercialization of sodium-ion batteries. Na4Fe3(PO4)2P2O7 (NFPP) has attracted extensive attention owning to its high theoretical capacity, stable structure, and low cost of raw materials. However, its inherent low conductivity hinders its further application. Herein, carbon-coated NFPP nanospheres are anchored to crumpled MXene nanosheets by an electrostatic self-assembly; this cross-linked structure induced by CTAB not only significantly expands the contact area between particles and improves the electronic conductivity, but also effectively reduces the aggregation of NFPP nanoparticles. The as-designed Na4Fe3(PO4)2(P2O7)@C/Ti3C2Tx (NFPP@MX) cathode exhibits a high discharge capacity (106.1 mAh g−1 g at 0.2 C), good rate capability (60.4 mAh g−1 at 10 C), and a long-life cyclic stability (85.2% capacity retention after 1000 cycles at 1 C). This study provides an effective strategy for the massive production of high-performance NFPP cathodes and broadens the application of MXene in the modification of other cathode materials. Full article
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Achieving Stable Copper Ion Storage in Layered Vanadium Pentoxide
by Yan Jiang, Jun Lu, Ao Xiang, Xiangguang Zhang, Dahui Liu, Ze Yang and Pei Hu
Batteries 2023, 9(12), 572; https://doi.org/10.3390/batteries9120572 - 27 Nov 2023
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Copper metal is a promising anode in aqueous batteries due to its low price, noble reaction potential (0.34 V), high theoretical specific capacity, abundance and chemical stability. However, only a few copper ion storage materials have been reported. Herein, layered vanadium pentoxide is [...] Read more.
Copper metal is a promising anode in aqueous batteries due to its low price, noble reaction potential (0.34 V), high theoretical specific capacity, abundance and chemical stability. However, only a few copper ion storage materials have been reported. Herein, layered vanadium pentoxide is chosen to store copper ions for the first time. Ex situ XRD reveals a unique two phase transition process during cycling. The V2O5 electrode shows stable copper ion storage performance. It delivers 91.9 mAh g−1 for the first cycle with a cycle life of as high as 4000 cycles at 1.0 A g−1. This work provides an intriguing copper ion storage material and expands the available options of electrode materials for copper ion storage. Full article
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AlCl3-NaCl-ZnCl2 Secondary Electrolyte in Next-Generation ZEBRA (Na-ZnCl2) Battery
by Sumit Kumar, Wenjin Ding, Ralf Hoffmann, Louis Sieuw, Meike V. F. Heinz, Norbert Weber and Alexander Bonk
Batteries 2023, 9(8), 401; https://doi.org/10.3390/batteries9080401 - 1 Aug 2023
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Increasing demand to store intermittent renewable electricity from, e.g., photovoltaic and wind energy, has led to much research and development in large-scale stationary energy storage, for example, ZEBRA batteries (Na-NiCl2 solid electrolyte batteries). Replacing Ni with abundant and low-cost Zn makes the [...] Read more.
Increasing demand to store intermittent renewable electricity from, e.g., photovoltaic and wind energy, has led to much research and development in large-scale stationary energy storage, for example, ZEBRA batteries (Na-NiCl2 solid electrolyte batteries). Replacing Ni with abundant and low-cost Zn makes the ZEBRA battery more cost-effective. However, few studies were performed on this next-generation ZEBRA (Na-ZnCl2) battery system, particularly on its AlCl3-NaCl-ZnCl2 secondary electrolyte. Its properties such as phase diagrams and vapor pressures are vital for the cell design and optimization. In our previous work, a simulation-assisted method for molten salt electrolyte selection has shown its successful application in development of molten salt batteries. The same method is used here to in-depth study the AlCl3-NaCl-ZnCl2 salt electrolyte in terms of its phase diagrams and vapor pressures via FactSageTM and thermo-analytical techniques (Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) and OptiMeltTM), and their effects on battery performance such as operation safety and charging/discharging reaction mechanism. The DSC and OptiMelt results show that the experimental data such as melting temperatures and phase changes agree well with the simulated phase diagrams. Moreover, the FactSageTM simulation shows that the salt vapor pressure increases significantly with increasing temperature and molar fraction of AlCl3. The obtained phase diagrams and vapor pressures will be used in the secondary electrolyte selection, cell design and battery operation. Full article
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