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Sultanov F, Tatykayev B, Bakenov Z, Mentbayeva A. The role of graphene aerogels in rechargeable batteries. Adv Colloid Interface Sci 2024; 331:103249. [PMID: 39032342 DOI: 10.1016/j.cis.2024.103249] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/14/2024] [Revised: 07/12/2024] [Accepted: 07/14/2024] [Indexed: 07/23/2024]
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Energy storage systems, particularly rechargeable batteries, play a crucial role in establishing a sustainable energy infrastructure. Today, researchers focus on improving battery energy density, cycling stability, and rate performance. This involves enhancing existing materials or creating new ones with advanced properties for cathodes and anodes to achieve peak battery performance. Graphene aerogels (GAs) possess extraordinary attributes, including a hierarchical porous and lightweight structure, high electrical conductivity, and robust mechanical stability. These qualities facilitate the uniform distribution of active sites within electrodes, mitigate volume changes during repeated cycling, and enhance overall conductivity. When integrated into batteries, GAs expedite electron/ion transport, offer exceptional structural stability, and deliver outstanding cycling performance. This review offers a comprehensive survey of the advancements in the preparation, functionalization, and modification of GAs in the context of battery research. It explores their application as electrodes and hosts for the dispersion of active material nanoparticles, resulting in the creation of hybrid electrodes for a wide range of rechargeable batteries including lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), Li-metal-air batteries, sodium-ion batteries (SIBs), zinc-ion batteries (AZIBs) and zinc-air batteries (ZABs), aluminum-ion batteries (AIBs) and aluminum-air batteries and other.
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- Fail Sultanov
- National Laboratory Astana, Nazarbayev University, Kabanbay Batyr Ave. 53, Astana 010000, Kazakhstan
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- National Laboratory Astana, Nazarbayev University, Kabanbay Batyr Ave. 53, Astana 010000, Kazakhstan
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- National Laboratory Astana, Nazarbayev University, Kabanbay Batyr Ave. 53, Astana 010000, Kazakhstan; Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Nazarbayev University, Kabanbay Batyr Ave. 53, Astana 010000, Kazakhstan
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- National Laboratory Astana, Nazarbayev University, Kabanbay Batyr Ave. 53, Astana 010000, Kazakhstan; Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Nazarbayev University, Kabanbay Batyr Ave. 53, Astana 010000, Kazakhstan.
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Ma J, Shu X, Chen S, Chen Q, Wang AL, Zhang J. Molten-salt-assisted preparation of porous carbon foams for efficient oxygen electrocatalysis in zinc-air batteries. Chem Commun (Camb) 2024; 60:8868-8871. [PMID: 39082093 DOI: 10.1039/d4cc01793e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/16/2024]
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To enhance the reversible electrolytic conversion of oxygen in zinc-air batteries, a molten-salt-assisted method was demonstrated to synthesize highly porous carbon foams with in situ anchoring of metal sites. These electrocatalysts improved the electrolysis for oxygen reduction and evolution reactions, thus leading to the fabrication of advanced zinc-air batteries.
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- Jizhen Ma
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Key Laboratory for Colloid and Interface Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China.
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Key Laboratory for Colloid and Interface Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China.
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Key Laboratory for Colloid and Interface Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China.
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Key Laboratory for Colloid and Interface Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China.
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Key Laboratory for Colloid and Interface Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China.
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Key Laboratory for Colloid and Interface Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China.
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Li W, Wang C, Lu X. Conducting polymers-derived fascinating electrocatalysts for advanced hydrogen and oxygen electrocatalysis. Coord Chem Rev 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2022.214555] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Ipadeola AK, Haruna AB, Gaolatlhe L, Lebechi AK, Meng J, Pang Q, Eid K, Abdullah AM, Ozoemena KI. Efforts at Enhancing Bifunctional Electrocatalysis and Related Events for Rechargeable Zinc‐Air Batteries. ChemElectroChem 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/celc.202100574] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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- Adewale K. Ipadeola
- Molecular Sciences Institute, School of Chemistry University of the Witwatersrand Private Bag 3, PO Wits Johannesburg 2050 South Africa
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- Molecular Sciences Institute, School of Chemistry University of the Witwatersrand Private Bag 3, PO Wits Johannesburg 2050 South Africa
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- Molecular Sciences Institute, School of Chemistry University of the Witwatersrand Private Bag 3, PO Wits Johannesburg 2050 South Africa
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- Molecular Sciences Institute, School of Chemistry University of the Witwatersrand Private Bag 3, PO Wits Johannesburg 2050 South Africa
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering Peking University Beijing 100871 China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering Peking University Beijing 100871 China
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- Gas Processing Centre, College of Engineering Qatar University Doha 2713 Qatar
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- Centre for Advanced Materials, College of Engineering Qatar University Doha 2713 Qatar
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- Molecular Sciences Institute, School of Chemistry University of the Witwatersrand Private Bag 3, PO Wits Johannesburg 2050 South Africa
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Tang T, Ding L, Jiang Z, Hu JS, Wan LJ. Advanced transition metal/nitrogen/carbon-based electrocatalysts for fuel cell applications. Sci China Chem 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s11426-020-9835-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Porous phosphorus-rich CoP3/CoSnO2 hybrid nanocubes for high-performance Zn-air batteries. Sci China Chem 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s11426-020-9700-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Ouyang C, Wang X. Recent progress in pyrolyzed carbon materials as electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction. Inorg Chem Front 2020. [DOI: 10.1039/c9qi00962k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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This review reports some recent advances in pyrolytic carbon as an ORR catalyst and explores its structure–activity relationship.
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- Chen Ouyang
- Key Lab of Organic Optoelectronics and Molecular Engineering
- Department of Chemistry
- Tsinghua University
- Beijing 100084
- China
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- Key Lab of Organic Optoelectronics and Molecular Engineering
- Department of Chemistry
- Tsinghua University
- Beijing 100084
- China
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Liu J, Jin Z, Wang X, Ge J, Liu C, Xing W. Recent advances in active sites identification and regulation of M-N/C electro-catalysts towards ORR. Sci China Chem 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s11426-018-9425-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Huang Y, Wang Y, Tang C, Wang J, Zhang Q, Wang Y, Zhang J. Atomic Modulation and Structure Design of Carbons for Bifunctional Electrocatalysis in Metal-Air Batteries. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2019; 31:e1803800. [PMID: 30247779 DOI: 10.1002/adma.201803800] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2018] [Revised: 07/14/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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With the extensive research and development of renewable energy technologies, there is an increasing interest in developing metal-free carbons as a new class of bifunctional electrocatalysts for boosting the performance of metal-air batteries. Along with significant understanding of the electrocatalytic nature and the rapid development of techniques, the activities of carbon electrocatalysts are well-tailored by introducing particular dopants/defects and structure regulation. Herein, the recent advances regarding the rational design of carbon-based electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction and oxygen evolution reaction are summarized, with a special focus on the bifunctional applications in Zn-air and Li-air batteries. Specifically, the atomic modulation strategies to regulate the electrocatalytic activities of carbons and structure modification are summarized to gain deep insights into bifunctional mechanisms and boost advanced Zn-air and Li-air batteries. The current challenges and future perspectives are also addressed to accelerate the exploration of promising bifunctional carbon catalysts for renewable energy technologies, particularly metal-air batteries.
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- Yiyin Huang
- CAS Key Laboratory of Design and Assembly of Functional Nanostructures, and Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanomaterials, State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350002, China
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- Key Laboratory for Colloid and Interface Chemistry (Ministry of Education), School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering and Key Laboratory for Liquid-Solid Structural Evolution and Processing of Materials (Ministry of Education), Shandong University, Jinan, 250100, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Reaction Engineering and Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China
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- Key Laboratory for Colloid and Interface Chemistry (Ministry of Education), School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering and Key Laboratory for Liquid-Solid Structural Evolution and Processing of Materials (Ministry of Education), Shandong University, Jinan, 250100, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Reaction Engineering and Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Design and Assembly of Functional Nanostructures, and Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Nanomaterials, State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350002, China
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- Key Laboratory for Colloid and Interface Chemistry (Ministry of Education), School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering and Key Laboratory for Liquid-Solid Structural Evolution and Processing of Materials (Ministry of Education), Shandong University, Jinan, 250100, China
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Freestanding reduced graphene oxide/sodium vanadate composite films for flexible aqueous zinc-ion batteries. Sci China Chem 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s11426-018-9394-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Cai P, Peng X, Huang J, Jia J, Hu X, Wen Z. Covalent organic frameworks derived hollow structured N-doped noble carbon for asymmetric-electrolyte Zn-air battery. Sci China Chem 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/s11426-018-9395-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Lv Y, Yang L, Cao D. Sulfur, Nitrogen and Fluorine Triple‐Doped Metal‐Free Carbon Electrocatalysts for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction. ChemElectroChem 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/celc.201801433] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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- Yanlong Lv
- State Key Laboratory of Organic-Inorganic CompositesBeijing University of Chemical Technology Beijing 100029 P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic-Inorganic CompositesBeijing University of Chemical Technology Beijing 100029 P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Organic-Inorganic CompositesBeijing University of Chemical Technology Beijing 100029 P.R. China
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Chen X, Zhou Z, Karahan HE, Shao Q, Wei L, Chen Y. Recent Advances in Materials and Design of Electrochemically Rechargeable Zinc-Air Batteries. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2018; 14:e1801929. [PMID: 30160051 DOI: 10.1002/smll.201801929] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2018] [Revised: 07/23/2018] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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The century-old zinc-air (Zn-air) battery concept has been revived in the last decade due to its high theoretical energy density, environmental-friendliness, affordability, and safety. Particularly, electrically rechargeable Zn-air battery technologies are of great importance for bulk applications like electric vehicles, grid management, and portable electronic devices. Nevertheless, Zn-air batteries are still not competitive enough to realize widespread practical adoption because of issues in efficiency, durability, and cycle life. Here, following an introduction to the fundamentals and performance testing techniques, the latest research progress related to electrically rechargeable Zn-air batteries is compiled, particularly new key findings in the last five years (2013-2018). The strategies concerning the development of Zn and air electrodes are in focus. The design of other battery components, namely electrolytes and separators are also discussed. Poor performance of O2 electrocatalysts and the lack of the long-term stability of Zn electrodes and electrolytes remain major challenges. Finally, recommendations regarding the testing routines and materials design are provided. It is hoped that this up-to-date account will help to shape the future research activities toward the development of practical electrically rechargeable Zn-air batteries with extended lifetime and superior performance.
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- Xuncai Chen
- School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The University of Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia
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- School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The University of Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia
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- School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 62 Nanyang Drive, Singapore, 637459, Singapore
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- College of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266590, P. R. China
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- School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The University of Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia
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- School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The University of Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia
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Zhang LY, Wu D, Gong Y, Liu H, Chen W, Bi L. Carbon Monoxide-Templated Synthesis of Coral-Like Clean PtPd Nanochains as Efficient Oxygen Reduction Catalyst. ChemElectroChem 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/celc.201800575] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Lian Ying Zhang
- Institute of Materials for Energy and Environment, College of Materials Science and Engineering; Qingdao University; Qingdao 266071 P. R. China
- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Micro/Nano Materials Engineering and Technology; Chongqing University of Arts and Sciences; Chongqing 402160 P. R. China
- CAS Key Laboratory of Low-Coal Conversion Science & Engineering; Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Shanghai 201210 P. R. China
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- Institute of Materials for Energy and Environment, College of Materials Science and Engineering; Qingdao University; Qingdao 266071 P. R. China
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- Institute of Materials for Energy and Environment, College of Materials Science and Engineering; Qingdao University; Qingdao 266071 P. R. China
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- Chongqing Key Laboratory of Micro/Nano Materials Engineering and Technology; Chongqing University of Arts and Sciences; Chongqing 402160 P. R. China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Low-Coal Conversion Science & Engineering; Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Shanghai 201210 P. R. China
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- Institute of Materials for Energy and Environment, College of Materials Science and Engineering; Qingdao University; Qingdao 266071 P. R. China
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