High-Mass-Loading Electrodes for Advanced Secondary Batteries and Supercapacitors

Feng Wu; Mingquan Liu; Ying Li; Xin Feng; Kun Zhang; Ying Bai; Xinran Wang; Chuan Wu

doi:10.1007/s41918-020-00093-0

Electrochemical Energy Reviews ›› 2021, Vol. 4 ›› Issue (2) : 382 -446. DOI: 10.1007/s41918-020-00093-0

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High-Mass-Loading Electrodes for Advanced Secondary Batteries and Supercapacitors

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¹School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, 100081, Beijing, China

²Collaborative Innovation Center of Electric Vehicles in Beijing, 100081, Beijing, China

^h chuanwu@bit.edu.cn

Feng Wu

is the director of the Green Energy Research Institute, and the vice president of the China Battery Industry Association. As the chief scientist, he has hosted three “National Program on Key Basic Research Projects (973 Programs)”. He has published over 500 peer-reviewed papers. In 2012, he was awarded the IBA Research Award for outstanding research of battery material and systems for electric vehicles. In 2017, Prof. Wu was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Mingquan Liu

received his Bachelor's degree (2016) and Master's degree (2019) from Northeast Forestry University and the Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), respectively. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate under the supervision of Professor Feng Wu in the School of Materials Science and Engineering, BIT. His research interests focus on structure engineering of carbon materials for supercapacitors and sodium-ion batteries.

Ying Li

is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the Beijing Institute of Technology, where she received her M.S. degree in 2019. She received her B.S. degree at the University of Science and Technology Beijing. Her research focuses on silicon-based materials for high performance sodium ion batteries.

Xin Feng

received his M.S. degree in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Wenzhou University in 2016. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Beijing Institute of Technology. His research focuses on materials for high performance supercapacitors and sodium ion batteries.

Kun Zhang

is currently a Ph.D. candidate under the supervision of Professor Feng Wu in the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT). She received her B.S. degree from Shandong Normal University in 2014 and obtained her M.S. degree from the BIT in 2017. Her research interests mainly focus on polymer materials and related applications in solid-state batteries.

Ying Bai

is currently a professor at the Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT). Her research interests focus on electrochemical energy storage and conversion technology. Dr. Bai earned her bachelor degree from the Applied Chemistry Division at the Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China in 1997. She completed her Ph.D. from the School of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the BIT in 2003. In 2013, she was awarded “New Century Excellent Talents in University” from the Chinese Ministry of Education. She hosted and is hosting the projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China as a principal investigator.

Xinran Wang

received his Ph.D. and B.S. from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is currently an associate professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT). His current researches focused on advanced multi-electron reaction materials for use in rechargeable batteries and energy storage.

Chuan Wu

is a professor at the Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), where his research interests are new materials for energy conversion and storage, and secondary batteries based on multi-electron materials. He received his Ph.D. degree in Applied Chemistry from the BIT in 2002, followed by a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship in the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Dr. Wu was awarded the Beijing Outstanding Talents Cultivation Project in 2007, the Beijing Nova Program Award in 2009, and “New Century Excellent Talents in University” in 2012.

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The growing demand for advanced electrochemical energy storage systems (EESSs) with high energy densities for electric vehicles and portable electronics is driving the electrode revolution, in which the development of high-mass-loading electrodes (HMLEs) is a promising route to improve the energy density of batteries packed in limited spaces through the optimal enlargement of active material loading ratios and reduction of inactive component ratios in overall cell devices. However, HMLEs face significant challenges including inferior charge kinetics, poor electrode structural stability, and complex and expensive production processes. Based on this, this review will provide a comprehensive summary of HMLEs, beginning with a basic presentation of factors influencing HMLE electrochemical properties, the understanding of which can guide optimal HMLE designs. Rational strategies to improve the electrochemical performance of HMLEs accompanied by corresponding advantages and bottlenecks are subsequently discussed in terms of various factors ranging from inactive component modification to active material design to structural engineering at the electrode scale. This review will also present the recent progress and approaches of HMLEs applied in various EESSs, including advanced secondary batteries (lithium-/sodium-/potassium-/aluminum-/calcium-ion batteries, lithium metal anodes, lithium-sulfur batteries, lithium-air batteries, zinc batteries, magnesium batteries) and supercapacitors. Finally, this review will examine the challenges and prospects of HMLE commercialization with a focus on thermal safety, performance evaluation, advanced characterization, and production cost assessment to guide future development.

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Feng Wu, Mingquan Liu, Ying Li, Xin Feng, Kun Zhang, Ying Bai, Xinran Wang, Chuan Wu. High-Mass-Loading Electrodes for Advanced Secondary Batteries and Supercapacitors. Electrochemical Energy Reviews, 2021, 4(2): 382-446 DOI:10.1007/s41918-020-00093-0