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Recent Progress in Electrode Materials for Sodium-Ion Batteries

A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Chemistry".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2021) | Viewed by 11461

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Prof. Alain Mauger

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Institut de Minéralogie, Physique de la Matière Concensée et Cosmologie, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
Interests: materials science; energy storage and conversion; Li-ion batteries; Na-ion batteries
Prof. Dr. Christian Julien

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Institut de Minéralogie, de Physique des Matériaux et Cosmologie (IMPMC), Sorbonne Université, UMR-CNRS 7590, 4 Place Jussieu, 75752 Paris, France
Interests: energy storage and conversion; solid state ionics; nanomaterials; nanoionics; lithium batteries; energy materials; insertion reactions; vibrational spectroscopy
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Dear Colleagues,

Sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) are alternative to lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) for some applications for several reasons: (i) sodium metal is abundant in the earth's crust and can be extracted from the salt of the oceans; (ii) as a consequence, sodium metal is also cheap; (iii) SIBs have good performance in aqueous systems in contrast with LIBs, which enables the use of cheaper electrolytes and easier fabrication processes; and (iv) SIBs may find a market for applications where the weight and volume of the batteries are not important parameters, such as grid-scale storage.

The objective of this Special Issue of Materials, “Recent Progress in Electrode Materials for Sodium-Ion Batteries”, is to present the latest achievements from the field of electrode materials for sodium-ion batteries (anodes and cathodes). We invite contributions on topics that include original research data, review articles, communications, and short notes that focus on new (experimental or theoretical) advances, challenges, and outlooks concerning their preparation, characterization, and application.

Prof. Alain Mauger
Dr. Christian M. Julien
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Keywords

  • Sodium-ion batteries
  • Cathodes
  • Anodes
  • Synthesis
  • Material characterization
  • Electrochemical performance
  • Cyclability and rate capability
  • Safety and thermal stability

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State-of-the-Art Electrode Materials for Sodium-Ion Batteries
by Alain Mauger and Christian M. Julien
Materials 2020, 13(16), 3453; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma13163453 - 5 Aug 2020
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Abstract
Sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) were investigated as recently as in the seventies. However, they have been overshadowed for decades, due to the success of lithium-ion batteries that demonstrated higher energy densities and longer cycle lives. Since then, the witness a re-emergence of the SIBs [...] Read more.
Sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) were investigated as recently as in the seventies. However, they have been overshadowed for decades, due to the success of lithium-ion batteries that demonstrated higher energy densities and longer cycle lives. Since then, the witness a re-emergence of the SIBs and renewed interest evidenced by an exponential increase of the publications devoted to them (about 9000 publications in 2019, more than 6000 in the first six months this year). This huge effort in research has led and is leading to an important and constant progress in the performance of the SIBs, which have conquered an industrial market and are now commercialized. This progress concerns all the elements of the batteries. We have already recently reviewed the salts and electrolytes, including solid electrolytes to build all-solid-state SIBs. The present review is then devoted to the electrode materials. For anodes, they include carbons, metal chalcogenide-based materials, intercalation-based and conversion reaction compounds (transition metal oxides and sulfides), intermetallic compounds serving as functional alloying elements. For cathodes, layered oxide materials, polyionic compounds, sulfates, pyrophosphates and Prussian blue analogs are reviewed. The electrode structuring is also discussed, as it impacts, importantly, the electrochemical performance. Attention is focused on the progress made in the last five years to report the state-of-the-art in the performance of the SIBs and justify the efforts of research. Full article
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