Journal article
2D Materials with Nanoconfined Fluids for Electrochemical Energy Storage
Joule, v 1(3), pp 443-452
15 Nov 2017
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Abstract
In the quest to develop energy storage with both high power and high energy densities, while maintaining high volumetric capacity, recent results show that a variety of 2D and layered materials exhibit rapid kinetics of ion transport by the incorporation of nanoconfined fluids.
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There is a growing need to develop thinner, lighter, and faster electrochemical energy storage solutions to meet the increasing demands in applications ranging from storage of renewable energy to powering electric cars and enabling the Internet of Things. In the quest to develop energy storage with both high power and high energy densities, while maintaining high volumetric capacity, recent results show that a variety of 2D and layered materials exhibit rapid kinetics of ion transport by the incorporation of nanoconfined fluids. Examples of such materials include the hydrated layered oxides of tungsten, vanadium, and manganese, as well as carbides and nitrides of transition metals (MXenes) with layers of water confined between 2D sheets. In these materials, water or other solvent molecules reside in interlayer spacing on the order of Ångstroms to a few nanometers. Such materials are of particular interest in high-power electrochemical capacitors and for batteries utilizing multivalent cations. Relatively little is known about the mechanism of ion charge transfer and transport in nanoconfined fluids, and which features would lead to the optimal nanoconfined fluid structure for energy storage. As a result, this field presents significant opportunities to understand the fundamentals of ion behavior in nanoconfined fluids and for these understandings to be applied to future electrochemical energy storage.
In the quest to develop energy storage with both high power and high energy densities, while maintaining high volumetric capacity, recent results show that a variety of 2D and layered materials exhibit rapid kinetics of ion transport by the incorporation of nanoconfined fluids.
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- Title
- 2D Materials with Nanoconfined Fluids for Electrochemical Energy Storage
- Creators
- Veronica Augustyn - Department of Materials Science & Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USAYury Gogotsi - Department of Materials Science & Engineering & A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
- Publication Details
- Joule, v 1(3), pp 443-452
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000425301500010
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85034965025
- Other Identifier
- 991014970149704721
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- Domestic collaboration
- Web of Science research areas
- Chemistry, Physical
- Energy & Fuels
- Materials Science, Multidisciplinary