Promising Carbon-Based Materials for Energy Storage

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".

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Department of Materials Science, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
Interests: alkaline ion batteries; elctrochromic materials; conducting polymers
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Department of Materials Science, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
Interests: alkali-ion batteries; supercapacitors; dynamic electrochemical impedance spectroscopy

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

With the recent awareness of climate change and its associated issues, electrochemical energy storage systems (secondary batteries and super- or pseudocapacitors) are important and established technologies which have attracted significant interest from scientists and industries, owing to their excellent performance in various fields (e.g., portable electronics, electro-mobility, renewable energies). In all of these devices, carbon-based materials play a fundamental role as active materials, conductive agents, supporting scaffolds, etc.

For this Special Issue, we are seeking contributions that improve the knowledge related to the use of carbon-based materials in electrochemical energy storage systems, both in their conventional uses and in more innovative and unexplored ones.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Active carbon-based materials for alkaline-ion batteries;
  • Active carbon-based materials for supercapacitors;
  • Novel carbon-based materials in the circular economy framework;
  • Carbon-based materials from biological or inorganic waste;
  • Carbon-based materials in battery recycling;
  • Carbon-based scaffolds;
  • Advanced electrochemical techniques applied to carbon-based materials;
  • Modeling of carbon material behavior in energy storage devices.

Prof. Dr. Riccardo Ruffo
Dr. Nicolò Pianta
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • carbon-based materials
  • carbon-base electrodes
  • battery
  • supercapacitor
  • carbon-based scaffolds
  • circular economy

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The Impact of Graphene in Na2FeP2O7/C/Reduced Graphene Oxide Composite Cathode for Sodium-Ion Batteries
by Inara Nesterova, Liga Britala, Anatolijs Sarakovskis, Beate Kruze, Gunars Bajars and Gints Kucinskis
Batteries 2023, 9(8), 406; https://doi.org/10.3390/batteries9080406 - 3 Aug 2023
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This study presents a thorough investigation of Na2FeP2O7 (NFP) cathode material for sodium-ion batteries and its composites with carbon and reduced graphene oxide (rGO). Our findings demonstrate that rGO sheets improve cycling performance in NFP/C/rGO composite in the [...] Read more.
This study presents a thorough investigation of Na2FeP2O7 (NFP) cathode material for sodium-ion batteries and its composites with carbon and reduced graphene oxide (rGO). Our findings demonstrate that rGO sheets improve cycling performance in NFP/C/rGO composite in the absence of solid electrolyte interphase (SEI)-stabilizing additives. However, once SEI is stabilized with the help of fluoroethylene carbonate electrolyte additive, NFP with carbon additive (NFP/C) exhibits a superior electrochemical performance when compared to NFP/rGO and NFP/C/rGO composites. The decreases in capacity and rate capability are proportional to the amount of rGO added, and lead to an increase in overvoltage and internal resistance. Based on our results, we attribute this effect to worsened sodium kinetics in the bulk of the electrode—the larger ionic radius of Na+ hinders charge transfer in the presence of rGO, despite the likely improved electronic conductivity. These findings provide a compelling explanation for the observed trends in electrochemical performance and suggest that the use of rGO in Na-ion battery electrodes may present challenges associated with ionic transport along and through rGO sheets. Full article
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