Organic redox flow batteries in non-aqueous electrolyte solutions
This review explores progress in non-aqueous electrolyte solution-based organic RFBs (NRFBs) using redox-active organic molecules (ROMs), highlighting their potential for high-energy storage and unique applications compared to aqueous systems.
Insights from Li and Zn systems for advancing Mg and Ca metal batteries
This review presents the progress and future direction of Mg and Ca metal batteries with a focus on electrolyte and solid–electrolyte–interphase engineering, by drawing lessons from the more extensively researched Li and Zn metal batteries.
Sodium layered oxide cathodes: properties, practicality and prospects
This review depicts a broad picture of fundamental electrochemical properties, challenges in practical use, improvement strategies and future prospects of Na layered oxides, attempting to offer insights into design high-performance Na cathodes.
Recent advances in zinc-ion dehydration strategies for optimized Zn–metal batteries
Two principles of component regulation and pre-desolvation and derived strategies for achieving dehydrated zinc-ion solvation structures are systematically reviewed.
Tutorial Review
Interfacial chemistry in multivalent aqueous batteries: fundamentals, challenges, and advances
This invited tutorial review presents key design principles for interfacial engineering in multivalent aqueous batteries including deposition regulation, ion flux homogenization, and solvation modulation.
About this collection
In the face of escalating environmental pollution coupled with global economic advancement, the imperative to develop sustainable energy storage systems has taken centre-stage in the mission of humanity. Over the last couple decades, rechargeable lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) have emerged as a clean energy cornerstone, poised to supplant fossil fuels. They have been widespread adopted in portable electronics and electric vehicles, which is pivotal in steering us toward a net-zero emissions future. Nonetheless, as concerns mount over surging raw material costs, potential environmental hazards, and the absence of effective recycling strategies, the exploration of cost-effective and ecologically benign battery technologies has garnered broad scientific attention on a global scale.
This themed collection, Guest Edited by Guihua Yu (University of Texas-Austin), Hye Ryung Byon (KAIST) and Xinliang Feng (Technische Universität Dresden), highlights the exciting developments taking place across the globe in the field of sustainable energy storage systems beyond current lithium-based battery chemistries and it future prospects. This collection aims to look at molecular synthesis, crystallographic structure control, interface design, and state-of-the-art characterization techniques in various battery systems, including solid-state batteries, multivalent ion batteries, aqueous batteries, and redox flow batteries. At a more fundamental level, the collection revisits the underlying mechanisms and understanding of charge storage and transport properties across multiple length scales and focus on the significant chemistry and material development to enhance the charge storage capability and reversibility for next-generation energy storage systems beyond lithium.