DESALINATION
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2025
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Xuemei Zhuo,Chunxi Hai,Yanxia Sun,Shengde Dong,Luxiang Ma,Xin He,Qi Xu,Masayoshi Fuji,Takashi Shirai,Yuan Zhou
Spinel-structured titanium‑lithium adsorbents have emerged as a promising solution for efficiently recovering Li + from Salt Lake brines with high Mg/Li ratio, owing to their stable structure, minimal dissolution loss, and excellent cycling stability. However, their practical application remains limited due to low adsorption capacity and prolonged equilibration times. In this study, we developed a novel 5TiO 2 ·2H 2 O/C adsorbents, synthesized by eluting Li 4 Ti 5 O 12 /C precursors with 0.15 mol/L HCl, which exhibits high adsorption capacity and minimal dissolution loss. Under optimal conditions, the 5TiO 2 ·2H 2 O/C adsorbents reached adsorption equilibrium within 5 h at 60 °C in a 600 ppm LiOH solution, with a maximum adsorption capacity of 41.84 mg/g and a titanium dissolution loss of only 0.29 %. The adsorption selectivity of the 5TiO 2 ·2H 2 O/C adsorbents was found to be strongly pH-dependent. In a 170 ppm Li + solution, the adsorbents demonstrated superior cycling stability in original Salt Lake brines, outperforming those in LiCl and Li 2 SO 4 solutions. This study provides valuable insights into the formation and mechanisms of action of these adsorbents, offering significant implications for the efficient recovery of Li + from various brines.
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ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
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2025
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IF 8.2
Li-Qian Cheng,Xinyuan Xie,Kai Chen,Xuxia Hao,Min Jiang,Yanping Tang,Haijiao Xie,Zhaoyin Wen
The pursuit of high-power and prolonged service life lithium ion batteries has driven extensive research into novel anode materials. Titanium niobium oxide (TNO) has arisen as a prospective contender due to its high reaction potential and low strain performance, which effectively avoid side reactions and suppress the formation of lithium dendrite. However, challenges such as poor conductivity and structural instability during high-rate cycling have hindered their practical application. In this study, high-performance V5+ and F– codoping of the TiNb2O7 (V/F-TNO) anode is obtained by a facile solvothermal method and exhibits outstanding electrochemical properties in both liquid- and solid-state batteries. Under the synergistic effect of V5+ and F– doping, impurity bands and additional oxygen vacancies are introduced to enhance the conductivity, while the particle size is reduced, which significantly improves its rate performance. In addition, a more stable crystal structure improves its cycle life. Thereby, the V/F-TNO anode displays a high reversible capacity of 322.8 mAh g–1 at 0.1 C and a superior rate capability of 222.6 mAh g–1 at 20 C. During long-term cycles, the V/F-TNO anode presents an outstanding discharge capacity of 178.5 mAh g–1 after 1500 cycles at 10 C, equivalent to a capacity retention rate of 78.2%. LiFePO4 (LFP)|Li1.3Al0.3Ti1.7(PO4)3 composite polymer electrolyte (LATPCPEs)|V/F-TNO solid-state batteries (SSBs) are assembled and display ideal capacities of 129.3 mAh g–1 at 0.2 C and 83.5 mAh g–1 at 5 C. Moreover, they retain an extraordinary capacity of 101.7 mAh g–1 after 200 cycles at 0.5 C, corresponding to a high-capacity retention ratio of 86%. This study demonstrates that the V/F-TNO anode is a promising candidate for high-power liquid and solid-state batteries.
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Journal of Materials Chemistry A
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2016
·Vol. 5
·期 2
·544-553
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IF 8.262
Qin Zhao,Caixia Wu,Lina Cong,Yuhang Zhang,Guiru Sun,Haiming Xie,Liqun Sun,Jia Liu
Controlling the geometric morphology and distributive location of discharge products play an important role in the reversibility and efficiency of Li–O2 batteries. This work presents novel Co2CrO4 nanospheres (CCO) prepared via a facile method, which are applied as the electrocatalysts for Li–O2 batteries. The as-prepared CCO was characterized by XRD, XPS, SEM, TEM, BET, and TG measurements. The CCO exhibited a yolk–shell microstructure, which could facilitate fast Li+ and O2 diffusion as well as possessing enough space for the discharge product deposition. In comparison to the performance of the cell without catalyst, the overpotential of the cell with CCO was apparently reduced and the cyclability significantly enhanced. Based on the experimental results and DFT calculations, direct evidence of the CCO employment being linked to the Li2O2 morphology was provided. In addition, a catalytic mechanism was proposed. Furthermore, fundamental information about the key factors and steps involved in the Li2O2 formation and decomposition was revealed. We expect that this study gives insight into the development of electrocatalysts, the selection of O2 electrode materials, and the design of O2 electrodes for Li–O2 batteries, as well as advancing our understanding of the catalytic mechanism.
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Energy Technology
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2020
·Vol. 8
·期 9
·2000361
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IF 3.404
Yihua Tang,Xinxin Wang,Jingjing Chen,Xiao Wang,Dajian Wang,Zhiyong Mao
Defects engineering is recognized as one promising strategy to enhance the electrochemical performance of carbon materials applied in energy storage field. Different from the commonly used methods, high-level N-doped carbon nanosheets are synthesized in this work via controllable removal of nitrogen atoms from nitrogen-rich graphite carbon nitride (g-C 3 N 4 ). The nitrogen doping levels and the relative amount of variable nitrogen types, including pyridinic-, pyrrolic-, and graphitic-N, are easily engineered for the obtained carbon nanosheets. Ultrahigh pyridinic-N content as high as 19.1 at% is achieved, closing to the highest values among the reported nitrogen-doped carbon materials. Extraordinary initial discharging capacity of 5190 mAh g −1 at a current density of 50 mA g −1 and excellent cycling stability (1639 mAh g −1 after 200 cycles) as well as promising rate performance (517 mAh g −1 at 2 A g −1 ) are demonstrated when serving as Li-ion battery anodes. The high nitrogen doping level, especially for the high pyridinic-N doping content in materials, is responsible for these outstanding electrochemical Li-ion storage performances. This work opens a new gateway to develop promising nitrogen-doped carbon materials for the practical application in energy storage devices.
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ELECTROCHIMICA ACTA
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2022
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IF 7.336
Zhiyi Wu,Shan Zhu,Xiangren Bai,Ming Liang,Xiang Zhang,Naiqin Zhao,Chunnian He
Benefiting from the unique chemical properties and the adjustable layered spacing, MXenes have been paid more attention to the field of energy storage and conversation, especially towards constructing hybrid structure for the use of Li-ion battery anodes. However, most MXene-based composites are achieved by the ex-situ mixing method on the basis of acid-etched MXene, which makes it extremely hard to maintain a good structural stability in the service process. Herein, we proposed a novel one-step in-situ strategy, i.e. SnCl 2 molten salt reaction with Ti 3 AlC 2 for synthesizing Sn-nanoconfined Ti 3 C 2 T x MXene composites. During the synthesis process, SnCl 2 not only executed as the Lewis acid to etch Ti 3 AlC 2 for obtaining Ti 3 C 2 T x MXene, but could also be in-situ transformed to Sn nanoparticles confined between the Ti 3 C 2 T x MXene layers. The 2D layer-confined effect inhibited the spontaneous coarsening of metal Sn at high temperature as well as the huge volume expansion during the electrochemical cycles. Meanwhile, the in-situ formed Sn nanoparticles as pillar played a decisive role in enlarging interlayered active spacing of Ti 3 C 2 T x MXene for Li-storage. As a result, the surprising enhancement of electrochemical Li-storage performances could be achieved during long-term cycling. This work provides a novel route to explore the application of MXene based on the molten salt methods.
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Journal of Materials Chemistry A
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2022
·Vol. 10
·期 41
·21912-21922
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IF 14.511
Wei-Chen Zheng,Chen-Guang Shi,Peng Dai,Zheng Huang,Jin-Xia Lin,Hui Chen,Miao-Lan Sun,Chong-Heng Shen,Chen-Xu Luo,Qiong Wang,Xin Feng,Yi-Min Wei,Ling Huang,Shi-Gang Sun
Lithium metal batteries (LMBs) with Ni-rich cathode materials providing ultra-high energy density (∼500 W h kg−1) are expected to be the next generation of batteries. However, high-voltage LMBs exhibit inferior electrochemical performance at elevated temperatures, due to severe dendrite growth in lithium metal anodes and the structural degradation of Ni-rich cathodes, which should be paid attention to in terms of their practical application. Herein, by introducing 1,3-propane sultone (PS) into the carbonate electrolytes, satisfying cycling stability of Li‖LiNi0.8Co0.1Mn0.1O2 (NCM811) batteries at a high cut-off voltage of 4.45 V and an elevated temperature of 45 °C was achieved, which also shows higher ionic conductivity, wettability and thermodynamic stability. This approach enables uniform lithium plating/stripping at elevated temperatures, because of the construction of a LiF/Li2SO3-rich interphase layer. Besides, PS inhibits drastic structural change and interfacial side reactions on NCM811. It is also noteworthy that Li‖NCM811 full cells delivered decent performance at high-load cathodes, ultra-thin lithium anodes and lean electrolytes cycling at 4.45 V and 45 °C. This strategy provides a feasible solution for boosting high energy density LMBs under extreme conditions.
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RSC Advances
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2016
·Vol. 6
·期 72
·68371-68378
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IF 3.289
Zhen Liu,Shaojie Han,Chong Xu,Yuwen Luo,Na Peng,Chenyang Qin,Mingjiong Zhou,Wenqin Wang,Liwei Chen,Shigeto Okada
A novel polymer binder, synthesized via in situ thermal cross-linking of water-soluble polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) and poly(ethylene imine) (PEI) precursor, is applied as a functional network binder to enhance the electrochemical performance of a silicon anode. The Si anode with PVA–PEI binder exhibits high specific capacity (3072.9 mA h g−1) in the initial cycle, high initial coulombic efficiency of 83.8% and excellent long-term cycling stability (1063.1 mA h g−1 after 300 cycles). Furthermore, the Si anode containing PVA–PEI binder also exhibits excellent rate performance, reaching a high specific capacity of 1590 mA h g−1 even at high current density of 10 A g−1. These outstanding electrochemical properties are ascribed to the reversibly-deformable polymer network and the binder's strong adhesion to the silicon particles. This low-cost and eco-friendly polymer binder has great potential to be used for silicon anodes in next generation Li-ion batteries.
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Journal of Materials Chemistry A
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2020
·Vol. 8
·期 43
·22763-22772
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IF 11.301
Jiaxi Xue,Yajing Wang,Cui Sun,Pan Xu,Xiaoxiang Fan,Jingmin Fan,Mingsen Zheng,Quanfeng Dong
Li-rich Mn-based materials, as high-energy-density and low-cost cathode materials for Li-ion batteries, suffer severe irreversible voltage fading and capacity loss during cycling, associated with the instability of crystal structure at high voltage, which greatly reduces the specific energy density after cycling and thus impedes their commercialization. Here, we introduce a new strategy to mitigate voltage fading and improve the cycling performance of Li-rich Mn-based cathode materials by simply introducing MgSO4 in the cathode during its preparation process. The results show that cycling stability and voltage fading of corresponding batteries were dramatically improved due to the high Li+ retention at the initial charge process and the stable cathode electrolyte interface (CEI) layer. After 100 cycles at 1C, the average discharge voltage decay is only 0.115 V (1.15 mV per cycle), with a high voltage retention of 96.7%, and the capacity remains at 91.5% after 300 cycles at 1C.
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ELECTROCHIMICA ACTA
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2016
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IF 4.803
Lingchao Pan,Yonggao Xia,Bao Qiu,Hu Zhao,Haocheng Guo,Kai Jia,Qingwen Gu,Zhaoping Liu
Li-rich layered oxides with micro-sized primary particles usually exhibit higher pellet density and better cycling performance. However, it is often at the expense of high reversible capacity. Here, we reported a simple strategy through a new chemical lithiation with micro-sized spinel-precursors and Na 2 S 2 O 8 surface treatment to obtain micro-sized particles in the Li-rich Li 1.172 Ni 0.135 Co 0.135 Mn 0.539 O 2 oxide without compromising its discharge capacity (260 mAh/g at 0.1C). Benefited from its larger particles and lower specific surface area, the obtained micron Li-rich layered material manifests its higher pellet density (3.18 g/cm 3 ) and better cycling performance in comparison with the nano-sized Li-rich layered material. After 100 cycles at 0.1 C, it can still deliver a capacity of 192 mAh/g with retention of 74%, much higher than 167 mAh/g with retention of 67% of the nano-sized sample. Moreover, the micron Li-rich layered material also exhibits good rate performance with a capacity of 174 mAh/g at 2C benefited from the 3D Li + insertion/extraction channel of its surface spinel content. These results may provide a new insight on improving pellet density of high-performance Li-rich layered cathode materials.
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APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
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2022
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IF 7.392
Jinlong Hu,Qingqing Chen,Qi Xia,Lingzhi Zhang
Heteroatom-doped hollow carbon nanostructures are one of the most promising sulfur hosts for high-performance lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries. However, finding a facile and controllable synthesis and enhancing their immobilization effect on polysulfides have been challenging. Herein, we propose a one-step in-situ reaction approach to synthesize N/F dual-doped hollow micro/mesoporous carbon nanospheres (NFHCs) as multifunctional sulfur host, which integrates the physical confinement of hollow porous structure and chemical adsorption/catalytic ability of N/F active sites to realize strong anchoring and accelerated conversion of polysulfides. This sulfur cathode based on NFHCs host with a high sulfur content of 80 wt% enables a superior high-rate capacity of 689 mAh g −1 at 3C, accompanied by outstanding cycle life over 500 cycles at 2C with a capacity decay of only 0.05% per cycle and nearly 100% Coulombic efficiency. This work opens up new horizons to design nanostructured functional hollow carbons for advanced Li-S batteries.
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ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
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2023
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IF 9.5
Yu Rao,Kongjun Zhu,Guoliang Zhang,Feng Dang,Jiatao Chen,Penghua Liang,Zhihan Kong,Jun Guo,Hongjuan Zheng,Jie Zhang,Kang Yan,Jinsong Liu,Jing Wang
Molybdenum sulfide has been widely investigated as a prospective anode material for Li+/Na+ storage because of its unique layered structure and high theoretical capacity. However, the enormous volume variation and poor conductivity limit the development of molybdenum sulfide. The rational design of a heterogeneous interface is of great importance to improve the structure stability and electrical conductivity of electrode materials. Herein, a high-temperature mixing method is implemented in the hydrothermal process to synthesize the hybrid structure of MoS2/V2O3@carbon-graphene (MoS2/V2O3@C-rGO). The MoS2/V2O3@C-rGO composites exhibit superior Li+/Na+ storage performance due to the construction of the interface between the MoS2 and V2O3 components and the introduction of carbon materials, delivering a prominent reversible capacity of 564 mAh g–1 at 1 A g–1 after 600 cycles for lithium-ion batteries and 376.3 mAh g–1 at 1 A g–1 after 450 cycles for sodium-ion batteries. Theoretical calculations confirm that the construction of the interface between the MoS2 and V2O3 components can accelerate the reaction kinetics and enhance the charge-ionic transport of molybdenum sulfide. The results illustrate that interfacial engineering may be an effective guide to obtain high-performance electrode materials for Li+/Na+ storage.
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JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES
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2024
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IF 8.1
Chenxu Wang,LuLu Ren,Chunhua Ying,Jing Shang,John McCloy,Jin Liu,Wei-Hong Zhong
A high-performance solid electrolyte is critical for all-solid-state Li metal batteries which possess good safety and high energy densities. In this study, inspired by the unique ionic transport function and excellent adhesive properties of natural proteins, we successfully generated a novel solid electrolyte by applying soy protein as a dual-functional bridge to enable additional ion-conduction pathways and improve mechanical performance. The solid electrolyte with soy protein that interacts with both SiO 2 nanofabrics and polypolyethylene oxide (PEO) exhibits high ionic conductivity of 10 −5 S cm −1 (vs. 10 −6 S cm −1 of SiO 2 /PEO), improved Li + transference number of 0.550 (vs. 0.446 of SiO 2 /PEO), high Young's modulus of 1.862 MPa (vs. 0.356 MPa of SiO 2 /PEO) and excellent flexibility. As a result, the solid-state batteries with LiFePO 4 as cathode demonstrate a stable discharge capacity. This work provides a new strategy to advance the performance of solid electrolytes for achieving long-lifespan all-solid-state batteries.
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