Designing high-performance nanostructured electrode materials is the current core of electrochemical energy storage devices.Multi-scaled nanomaterials have triggered considerable interest because they effectively comb...Designing high-performance nanostructured electrode materials is the current core of electrochemical energy storage devices.Multi-scaled nanomaterials have triggered considerable interest because they effectively combine a library of advantages of each component on different scales for energy storage.However,serious aggregation,structural degradation,and even poor stability of nanomaterials are well-known issues during electrochemically driven volume expansion/contraction processes.The confinement strategy provides a new route to construct controllable internal void spaces to avoid the intrinsic volume effects of nanomaterials during the reaction or charge/discharge process.Herein,we discuss the confinement strategies and methods for energy storage-related electrode materials with a one-dimensional channel,two-dimensional interlayer,and three-dimensional space as reaction environments.For each confinement environment,the correlation between the confinement condition/structure and the behavioral characteristics of energy storage devices in the scope of metal-ion batteries(e.g.,Li-ion,Na-ion,K-ion,and Mg-ion batteries),Li-S batteries(LSBs),Zn-air batteries(ZIBs),and supercapacitors.Finally,we discussed the challenges and perspectives on future nanomaterial confinement strategies for electrochemical energy storage devices.展开更多
基金funding from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.51902222,51972221).
文摘Designing high-performance nanostructured electrode materials is the current core of electrochemical energy storage devices.Multi-scaled nanomaterials have triggered considerable interest because they effectively combine a library of advantages of each component on different scales for energy storage.However,serious aggregation,structural degradation,and even poor stability of nanomaterials are well-known issues during electrochemically driven volume expansion/contraction processes.The confinement strategy provides a new route to construct controllable internal void spaces to avoid the intrinsic volume effects of nanomaterials during the reaction or charge/discharge process.Herein,we discuss the confinement strategies and methods for energy storage-related electrode materials with a one-dimensional channel,two-dimensional interlayer,and three-dimensional space as reaction environments.For each confinement environment,the correlation between the confinement condition/structure and the behavioral characteristics of energy storage devices in the scope of metal-ion batteries(e.g.,Li-ion,Na-ion,K-ion,and Mg-ion batteries),Li-S batteries(LSBs),Zn-air batteries(ZIBs),and supercapacitors.Finally,we discussed the challenges and perspectives on future nanomaterial confinement strategies for electrochemical energy storage devices.
