Electrolyte Chemistry Development for Sodium‐Based Batteries: A Blueprint from Lithium or a Step Toward Originality?
Angewandte Chemie International Edition, vol. 64, pp. e202424543
Abstract
Currently, electrolyte design for sodium-based batteries is largely inherited from their lithium-based counterparts, which often present critical challenges that hinder forging new perspectives and thus further improvements. This work delves into the key properties of representative sodium- and lithium-based electrolytes, encompassing prevailing salt anions. It aims to evaluate the impact of cation chemistry, including their nature and the degree of interactions with counter anions, thereby bridging the gap in effectively transferring the know-how accumulated in lithium batteries to sodium-based batteries. The results demonstrate that the unique impact of salt anions on the properties of metal-ion conducting electrolytes is tightly correlated with the nature of metal cations. By synchronizing the anionic structures with the critical features of sodium cations, the solvating dynamics and transport properties, chemical stability, aluminum corrosion behavior, and other key properties of the electrolytes could be finely tuned to fit the specific requirements of advanced sodium-based batteries. This work gives an in-depth insight into the chemical and physical features of sodium-based electrolytes, with a potential avenue to accelerate the deployment of high-performance sodium batteries and simultaneously inspire and guide the design of other electrolytes for emerging mono- and multivalent cation-based rechargeable batteries.
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Huazhong University of Science and Technology
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Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage (Ministry of Education) School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan 430074 China
Huazhong University of Science and Technology - Main Campus: Huazhong University of Science and Technology School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Luoyu Road 1037 430074 Wuhan CHINA
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Huazhong University of Science and Technology
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Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage (Ministry of Education) School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan 430074 China
Huazhong University of Science and Technology - Main Campus: Huazhong University of Science and Technology School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Louyu Road 1037 CHINA
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Huazhong University of Science and Technology
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Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage (Ministry of Education) School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan 430074 China
Huazhong University of Science and Technology - Main Campus: Huazhong University of Science and Technology School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering CHINA
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Huazhong University of Science and Technology
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Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage (Ministry of Education) School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan 430074 China
Huazhong University of Science and Technology - Main Campus: Huazhong University of Science and Technology School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Luoyu Road 1037, Wuhan, China 430000 WUHAN CHINA
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Huazhong University of Science and Technology
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Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage (Ministry of Education) School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan 430074 China
Huazhong University of Science and Technology - Main Campus: Huazhong University of Science and Technology School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Luoyu Road 1037, Wuhan, China 430000 WUHAN CHINA
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Huazhong University of Science and Technology
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Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage (Ministry of Education) School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan 430074 China
Huazhong University of Science and Technology - Main Campus: Huazhong University of Science and Technology School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Luoyu Road 1037, Wuhan, China 430000 WUHAN CHINA
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Huazhong University of Science and Technology
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Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage (Ministry of Education) School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan 430074 China
Huazhong University of Science and Technology - Main Campus: Huazhong University of Science and Technology School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Luoyu Road 1037 430074 Wuhan CHINA
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Mekelle University · RWTH Aachen University
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Department of Material Science and Engineering, Mekelle Institute of Technology Mekelle University P.O. Box 1632 Mekelle Ethiopia
Institute of Power Electronics and Electric Drives (ISEA) Center for Ageing Reliability and Lifetime Prediction of Electrochemical and Power Electronic Systems (CARL) RWTH Aachen University Campus Boulevard 89 52074 Aachen Germany
RWTH: Rheinisch-Westfalische Technische Hochschule Aachen ISEA Campus-Boulevard 89 52074 Aachen GERMANY
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Egbert Figgemeier Aachen
Forschungszentrum Jülich · Helmholtz-Institute Münster · RWTH Aachen University
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Helmholtz‐Institute Münster (HI MS) IMD‐4 Forschungszentrum Jülich, 46 48149 Münster Germany
Institute of Power Electronics and Electric Drives (ISEA) Center for Ageing Reliability and Lifetime Prediction of Electrochemical and Power Electronic Systems (CARL) RWTH Aachen University Campus Boulevard 89 52074 Aachen Germany
RWTH: Rheinisch-Westfalische Technische Hochschule Aachen Institute of Power Electronics and Electric Drives Boulevard 89 52074 Aachen GERMANY
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AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH
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Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT) Center for Transport Technologies Giefinggasse 4 Wien 1020 Austria
Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH Center for Transport Technologies Giefinggasse 4 Wien AUSTRIA
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Centre for Cooperative Research on Alternative Energies (CIC energiGUNE) Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA) Vitoria‐Gasteiz 01510 Spain
Basque Research and Technology Alliance Centre for Cooperative Research on Alternative Energies (CIC energiGUNE) 01510 Vitoria-Gasteiz SPAIN
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Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Affiliation as printed
Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage (Ministry of Education) School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan 430074 China
Huazhong University of Science and Technology - Main Campus: Huazhong University of Science and Technology School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Louyu Road 1037 10037 Wuhan CHINA
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Huazhong University of Science and Technology
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Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage (Ministry of Education) School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan 430074 China
Huazhong University of Science and Technology - Main Campus: Huazhong University of Science and Technology School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Louyu Road 1037 10037 Wuhan CHINA
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