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Title: Design strategies for nonaqueous multivalent-ion and monovalent-ion battery anodes

Journal Article · · Nature Reviews. Materials
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  1. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States); Univ. of Waterloo, ON (Canada)
  2. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States)
  3. Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR (United States)
  4. Soochow Univ., Suzhou (China). Jiangsu Key Lab. for Carbon-Based Functional Materials and Devices, Inst. of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM)
  5. Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
  6. Univ. of Waterloo, ON (Canada)
  7. Tianjin Univ. (China). Key Lab. of Advanced Ceramics and Machining Technology, Tianjin Key Lab. of Composite and Functional Materials

The inability of current battery technologies to keep up with the performance requirements of industry is pushing forward developments in electrochemistry. Specifically, the battery's negative electrode, the anode, presents many unique chemical, physical and engineering challenges. Lithium-based battery technologies have dominated the past decade, but concerns about the limited supply of lithium in the Earth's crust have led researchers to look towards alternative metal-ion technologies. Furthermore, various alkali metals (such as sodium and potassium) and alkali earth metals (such as magnesium and calcium) have attracted significant research interest. In this Review, we analyse these technologies in a coherent manner, addressing the problems of each type of anode, rather than those of specific types of metal-ion batteries. Covering direct metal plating and stripping, intercalation-based, alloy-based and conversion-reaction-based anode technologies, this analysis will offer the reader a comprehensive understanding of the behaviour of different metal-ion anodes and of what can be learned by transferring knowledge between these different systems. Increasing demand for energy-storage systems will inevitably stress the Earth's lithium supply; thus, the research focus is shifting towards other alkali and alkali earth metals. In summary, this Review compares and connects strategies to enable different multivalent and monovalent metal-ion battery anodes, including metal anodes and intercalation-based, alloy-based and conversion-reaction-based anodes.

Research Organization:
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Office of Vehicle Technologies (VTO), Battery Materials Research (BMR) Program; Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-06CH11357; 51722403
OSTI ID:
1657511
Journal Information:
Nature Reviews. Materials, Vol. 5, Issue 4; ISSN 2058-8437
Publisher:
Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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Cited by: 192 works
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