Electrochemical Energy Storage Devices (eBook)

Non-Conventional Technologies and Materials

Yongbing Tang, Luojiang Zhang (Herausgeber)

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2025
646 Seiten
Wiley-VCH (Verlag)
978-3-527-83480-8 (ISBN)

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Systematic and insightful overview of various novel energy storage devices beyond alkali metal ion batteries for academic and industry

Electrochemical Energy Storage Devices delivers a comprehensive review of promising energy storage devices with the potential for higher energy and power density, longer lifetime cycle, better safety performance, and lower costs and environmental footprint compared to traditional lithium-ion batteries.

The book covers the fundamentals of energy storage devices and key materials (cathode, anode, and electrolyte) and discusses advanced characterization techniques to allow for further improvement of their electrochemical performance. Current challenges and future outlooks in the field are also discussed.

Written by a highly qualified academic with significant research experience in the field, Electrochemical Energy Storage Devices includes information on sample topics including:

• Mechanisms and promising cathode catalysts for metal air batteries and mechanisms and advanced materials for metal-CO₂ batteries
• Magnesium-based and other types of multivalent-ion batteries and M/N/C catalysts for fuel cells
• Developments and prospects of aqueous batteries and progress and perspectives of material design and engineering in flow batteries
• Rechargeable lithium-sulfur batteries, dual-ion batteries, hybrid capacitors, and flexible energy storage devices

Explaining working mechanisms and laying the groundwork for innovative optimization strategies, Electrochemical Energy Storage Devices is an essential reference on the subject for materials scientists and chemists.

Yongbing Tang is a Professor at Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) and Director of Advanced Energy Storage Technology Research Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He is a recipient of the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars and National Science Fund for Outstanding Young Scholars, and Director of the Engineering Center of Guangdong Province, the Engineering Laboratory of Shenzhen, the Leading Talents of Guangdong Special Support Program, and High-level Professional Talents of Shenzhen. He has authored more than 240 scientific papers and more than 240 granted patents.

Dr. Luojiang Zhang obtained his Ph.D. in Mechanical Convergence Engineering from Hanyang University, specializing in the topic of design, synthesis, evaluation, and application of key materials for novel energy storage devices. Now he works as an assistant professor at SIAT, CAS, and is a recipient of Overseas High-Caliber Personnel of Shenzhen.

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Introduction

Qingguang Pan1,2 and Yongbing Tang1,2

1Advanced Energy Storage Technology Research Center, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1068 Xueyuan Avenue, Shenzhen University Town, Shenzhen, 518055, China

2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, College of Materials Science and Opto‐Electronic Technology, No.19A Yuquan Road, Shijingshan District, Beijing, 100049, China

1.1 Introduction

The past decades have witnessed significantly irreversible resource and environmental degradation issues, especially for exhaustion and pollution due to the increasing global industrialization and indiscriminate consumption of fossil fuels, which critically restrict the sustainable development of society [1–3]. Proverbially, the sun, wind, hydro, and tides as renewable energy sources provide huge prospects to supplement electricity in an environment‐friendly way to satisfy our social needs [4–6]. However, these renewable energies are restrained by the geographical conditions (longitude, latitude, altitude, geomorphology, etc.) and natural environments (alternation of sunrise and sunset, seasonal and weather variations, etc.) [7, 8]. To store these random, uncontrolled, and intermittent energies, secondary batteries can be utilized to accommodate these energies in the form of chemical energy and transform chemical energy into the electric energy required, which have presented dominant application and popularization in consumer electronics, electric vehicles (EVs), and intelligent grids for electrochemical energy storage (EES), which are attributed to their rechargeability and considerable electrochemical performance [9, 10]. However, safety, cost, and service life are plaguing their applications [11, 12]. Accordingly, it is particularly urgent to develop novel EES devices and corresponding materials with low cost, high device performance, and environmental friendliness [13].

As displayed in Figure 1.1, the number of literature published per year on batteries gradually increased from 2000 to 2022, and more than 31,000 articles were published in just 2022, demonstrating the persistent investigation enthusiasm on batteries among researchers, scientists, and experts from all over the world. Noticeably, the lithium‐ion batteries (LIBs) account for a larger and larger share of these publications from 2000 to 2010. As known, LIBs have become the research hotspot for portable devices since they were commercialized by Sony in 1991 [14]. Soon afterward, they outperformed their competition, i.e. nickel metal hydride and nickel cadmium batteries as the leading battery technology in digital cameras, laptop computers, and cell phones with an overall market share of more than 60% worldwide [15]. With the popularization of LIBs in portable consumer electronics, the next trial focuses on the application of LIBs for EVs based on the updated battery engineering in 2010s; therefore, the research attention on LIBs is a new level among batteries [16]. Although LIBs are still research hotspots in EES fields relevant to high energy density and their mature technologies on pivotal electrode materials and devices [17]. The reserves of resources such as lithium, cobalt, and nickel from cathode are cumulatively scarce and their costs are increasingly expensive, which restrict their sustainable development [18]. Therefore, novel EES devices have been investigated to complement the traditional LIBs and satisfy growing demand [19]. For example, some cost‐effective cathodes can be considered, such as air, sulfur, and CO2 [20–23]. Moreover, the construction of these batteries can be evolved into multivalent‐ion or dual‐ion types [24]. Perhaps, they can also be reconstituted into aqueous type, flow type, hybrid type, or flexible type [25–29]. Furthermore, fuels such as hydrogen or methanol can also be utilized as active materials to generate electric energy from chemical energy [30]. Under the circumstances, various new alternative EES devices such as metal‐air batteries, metal‐S batteries, metal‐CO2 batteries, multivalent‐ion batteries, dual‐ion batteries, fuel cells, aqueous batteries, flow batteries, hybrid capacitors, and flexible energy storage devices have been developed to achieve the aims of high energy/power density, long cycling lifetime, inherently safe, cost‐effective, or environmentally benign [31]. Meanwhile, numerous scientific challenges in critical electrode materials, electrolytes, and construction of these devices and research attention concerned with the system integration for energy storage and utilization are extremely vibrant [32]. First, the reaction mechanisms of these novel EES devices should be elaborated through advanced characterization techniques and theoretical simulations [33, 34]. Second, structural and electrochemical stability of device components should be enhanced to improve the device lifetime by rational electrode design [35, 36]. Third, the electrode activity and ion transport property in electrolytes should be optimized to promote their energy storage efficiency [37, 38]. The specific issues faced by different devices are briefly introduced and feasible solutions could be summarized and proposed as follows.

Figure 1.1 Left y‐axis: the publication number of papers per year relevant to batteries from 2000 to 2022. Right y‐axis: the percentage of papers published for LIBs. (Here, the results were refined from the Web of Science with “topic = Batteries” and “document types = article” for the left data and “topic = lithium‐ion batteries or Li‐ion batteries” and “document types = article” for the right data until 8 October 2023.)

1.2 New Energy Storage Devices

1.2.1 Metal‐Air Batteries

Metal‐air batteries with an invincible theoretical specific energy and rich feedstock abundance of air have attracted much attention, especially, Li‐air batteries with a theoretical specific energy of 3500 Wh kg−1, whose anodes undergo the stripping/plating of metals and cathodes underpin the formation/decomposition of metal peroxides (M2O2) [39]. In 1996, Abraham et al. reported a rechargeable Li‐O2 battery constructed by a Li metal foil anode and a carbon composite cathode for oxygen reduction reaction with an organic polymer electrolyte membrane, which obtained a discharge capacity of 630 mAh g−1 [40]. This investigation is usually considered the pioneer of the aprotic Li‐air batteries and inspires researchers to engage in metal‐air batteries in the following years [41]. However, metal‐air batteries are still in their infancy stage, and formidable challenges involving air cathodes, metal anodes, and electrolytes need to be addressed for practical applications [42].

As for the air cathode, especially for O2 cathode, the solid and insulative discharge product M2O2 passivates the cathode surface and prohibits the diffusion of metal ions and O2, which results in a high overpotential, low Coulombic efficiency, and inferior discharge capacity, even the oxidative degradation of cathode materials and electrolytes [43]. Moreover, O2 could exacerbate the side reactions. For example, M2CO3, a common disreputable side reaction product, can ever‐growingly deposit on the cathode/electrolyte interface because it is hard to eliminate even at a high voltage, which also degenerates the device performance and induces decomposition of the device components [44]. Noticeably, the formation of M2O2 might experience two different pathways of the surface‐mediated and solution‐mediated routes, which could influence the physical properties of M2O2 [45]. Usually, the solution route could alleviate the electrode passivation and contribute to a high discharge capacity by utilizing organic solvents with high solvating ability, which enhances the solvation of MO2 intermediate [46]. However, superoxide species might lead to the solvent decomposition in the solvents with high solvating ability. In this case, designing stable electrolyte solvents without sacrificing the solvating ability can maintain the robust M2O2 formation property in electrolyte solution [47]. Moreover, the reactivity occupancy of superoxide intermediates is an effective strategy by incorporating the reduction mediator (RMdisch), which delivers electrons between the electrode and M2O2, and forms a soluble intermediate, i.e. MO2–RMdisch complex, where the side reactions from electrode and electrolyte disintegration are restrained, increasing the M2O2 product upon discharge [48]. To decrease the side reactions and reduce the charging overpotential to enhance the kinetics of O2 reduction, stable noncarbon materials such as metal oxides and nanostructured gold are employed to replace the unstable carbon‐based cathodes. Meanwhile, noncarbonate electrolytes, e.g. ionic liquid and ether, are combined with carbonate electrolytes to construct a stable metal‐O2 battery [49]. In terms of metal...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.2.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie
• Schlagworte: Anodes • aqueous batteries • cathodes • dual-ion batteries • electrolytes • Energy Storage Devices • Energy Storage Materials • flow batteries • Fuel cells • Lithium-sulfur Batteries • metal air batteries • metal-CO2 batteries • multivalent-ion batteries
• ISBN-10: 3-527-83480-X / 352783480X
• ISBN-13: 978-3-527-83480-8 / 9783527834808