Research summary
Working principles, dendrite-formation mechanisms, and solid-electrolyte interphase (SEI) models of lithium-metal anodes are reviewed in depth, including quantitative SEI-formation models and proposed strategies — electrolyte additives, artificial SEI layers, structured current collectors, and solid electrolytes — for suppressing dendritic growth [1]. A complementary SEI-focused review enumerates analysis methods used to probe surface chemistry, morphology, electrochemical properties, and dynamic behaviour of the interphase, and links each property to dendrite-inhibition strategy [3]. Fluoroethylene-carbonate additives were shown to produce a compact LiF-rich SEI on cycled Li, raising Coulombic efficiency to 98% over 100 Li|Cu cycles and supporting a high-loading sulfur cathode in a full Li-S cell [5]. For lithium-sulfur chemistry, the high-loading and high-energy Li-S battery design space is reviewed, with sulfur loadings above 3-5 mg/cm² as the practical threshold and host-architecture, electrolyte, separator, and anode strategies needed to retain capacity at that loading [4]. Nanostructured metal oxides and sulfides are reviewed as sulfur hosts, separator coatings, and Li-anode protection layers, with the intrinsic property-performance correlation analysed across the sulfur cathode redox cycle [6]. Sulfiphilic CoS2 was incorporated into carbon/sulfur cathodes, with the CoS2-electrolyte interface acting as polysulfide-redox catalyst and reducing the polysulfide-shuttle problem [7]. Asymmetric supercapacitors paired flowerlike Ni(OH)2/graphene (positive) and porous graphene (negative) electrodes, cycling reversibly in the 0-1.6 V window with maximum specific capacitance 218.4 F/g and high energy density [2]. A separate review of electrocatalytic dinitrogen reduction to ammonia surveys catalyst design — metals, alloys, metal nitrides/sulfides, oxides, and carbon-based catalysts — and the competing hydrogen evolution side reaction that limits selectivity at ambient conditions [8].
Recent publications
- Toward Safe Lithium Metal Anode in Rechargeable Batteries: A ReviewDOI
- Advanced Asymmetric Supercapacitors Based on Ni(OH)2/Graphene and Porous Graphene Electrodes with High Energy DensityDOI
- The timescale identification decoupling complicated kinetic processes in lithium batteriesDOI
- A Review of Solid Electrolyte Interphases on Lithium Metal AnodeDOI
- Review on High‐Loading and High‐Energy Lithium–Sulfur BatteriesDOI
- Fluoroethylene Carbonate Additives to Render Uniform Li Deposits in Lithium Metal BatteriesDOI
- Nanostructured Metal Oxides and Sulfides for Lithium–Sulfur BatteriesDOI
- Scalable synthesis of hierarchically structured carbon nanotube–graphene fibres for capacitive energy storageDOI
- Powering Lithium–Sulfur Battery Performance by Propelling Polysulfide Redox at Sulfiphilic HostsDOI
- A Review of Electrocatalytic Reduction of Dinitrogen to Ammonia under Ambient ConditionsDOI
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