Recent Progress in Surface Coatings for Sodium-Ion Battery Electrode Materials

Tyler Or; Storm W. D. Gourley; Karthikeyan Kaliyappan; Yun Zheng; Matthew Li; Zhongwei Chen

doi:10.1007/s41918-022-00137-7

Electrochemical Energy Reviews ›› 2022, Vol. 5 ›› Issue (Suppl 1) DOI: 10.1007/s41918-022-00137-7

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Recent Progress in Surface Coatings for Sodium-Ion Battery Electrode Materials

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¹Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo, University Avenue West, N2L 3G1, Waterloo, ON, Canada

^f zhwchen@uwaterloo.ca

Tyler Or

is a Ph.D candidate in Chemical Engineering under the supervision of Professor Zhongwei Chen at the University of Waterloo. He received his Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering in 2020 at the University of Waterloo and his Bachelor’s degree in Integrated Science and Chemical Biology from McMaster University in 2018. His research is focused on the development of cathodes for lithium and sodium-ion batteries.

Storm Gourley

is currently a Ph.D candidate in Prof. Drew Higgins’ group at McMaster University. He received his Bachelor’s degree (2018) in Nanotechnology Engineering and Master’s degree (2020) in Chemical Engineering at the University of Waterloo where he was supervised by Prof. Zhongwei Chen. His main research interests include advanced electrode materials for zinc-ion and lithium-ion batteries and developing scalable solutions for grid-level energy storage.

Karthikeyan Kaliyappan

received the Bachelor of technology (B.Tech, 2005) and the Master of technology (M.Tech, 2007) in Electrochemical Engineering from Central Electrochemical Research Institute, India. He earned a Ph.D degree from Chonnam National University, Republic of Korea in Advanced Chemicals and Engineering (2013). He is currently working as a Research Scientist at CWZE Power Inc., Waterloo, Canada. His current fields of interest are designing high energy density Li-ion batteries with next generation advanced electroactive materials. He is also mastered in developing metal oxide coatings and composites using atomic layer deposition.

Yun Zheng

is a post-doctoral fellow from the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He received his Ph.D degree in chemical engineering from Tsinghua University in 2019. His research interests are electrochemical energy storage and conversion, especially for the research of composite solid-state electrolytes for lithium metal batteries, high temperature electrolysis of CO₂/H₂O to produce sustainable fuels by using solid oxide electrolysis cells, as well as the heterostructured electrode materials for solid oxide fuel cells.

Matthew Li

received his Ph.D degree from the University of Waterloo in the Department of Chemical Engineering in 2020. He is currently conducting his research work at Argonne National Laboratories as a postdoctoral appointee. His research focuses on the development of advanced lithium-based batteries and mechanistic studies through the use of various operando characterization techniques.

Zhongwei Chen

is a Canada Research Chair (CRC-Tier 1), Professor in Advanced Materials for Clean Energy at the University of Waterloo, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, Director of the Waterloo Center for Electrochemical Energy, Associate Editor of ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces (ACS-AMI), and Vice President of the International Academy of Electrochemical Energy Science (IAOEES). His research interests are in the development of advanced electrochemical energy materials and systems for fuel cells and batteries. He has published more than 430 peer reviewed journal articles with over 40 000 citations with an H-index of 110.

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Sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) are an emerging technology regarded as a promising alternative to lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), particularly for stationary energy storage. However, due to complications associated with the large size of the Na⁺ charge carrier, the cycling stability and rate performance of SIBs are generally inadequate for commercial applications. Due to their similar chemistry and operating mechanism to LIBs, many improvement strategies derived from extensive LIB research are directly translatable to SIBs. In addition to doping and tailoring of the particle morphology, applying coatings is a promising approach to improve the performance of existing electrode materials. Coatings can mitigate side reactions at the electrode–electrolyte interface, restrict active material dissolution, provide reinforcement against particle degradation, and/or enhance electrode kinetics. This review provides a comprehensive overview and comparison of coatings applied to SIB intercalation cathodes and anodes. Coatings are categorized based on their mechanism of action and deposition method. Key classes of SIB electrode materials are introduced, and promising coating strategies to improve the performance of each material are then discussed. These insights can help guide rational design of high-performance SIB electrodes.

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Tyler Or, Storm W. D. Gourley, Karthikeyan Kaliyappan, Yun Zheng, Matthew Li, Zhongwei Chen. Recent Progress in Surface Coatings for Sodium-Ion Battery Electrode Materials. Electrochemical Energy Reviews, 2022, 5(Suppl 1): DOI:10.1007/s41918-022-00137-7