Evaluating Strategies to Enhance Li Transference in Salt-in-Ionic Liquid Electrolytes: Mixed Anions, Coordinating Cations, and High Salt Concentration acs.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from acs.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The massive surge in the consumption of fossil fuels and the resulting environmental degradation necessitates the progression of renewable energy sources and energy storage/conversion technologies. The utilization of polymers characterized as being highly energy efficient and cost-effective is among the highly intriguing areas of research.
ORNL s Valentino Cooper Appointed to DOE s Basic Energy Sciences Advisory Committee hpcwire.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from hpcwire.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
April 25, 2023 — Valentino “Tino” Cooper, a scientist at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been appointed to DOE’s Basic [.]
Sodium-ion batteries are seeing a surge in interest as a potential complementary energy storage technology in light of skyrocketing demand for lithium-ion batteries. One of the frontiers of improving sodium-ion battery competitiveness is replacing liquid electrolytes with polymer electrolytes, which contain no free-flowing solvent, to increase safety and reduce cost. Their development may one day make viable sodium-metal batteries, which would have considerable advantages in energy density. This review provides an overview of the current field of both solid-polymer and gel-polymer electrolytes for sodium-ion batteries, with a focus in the key performance parameters used to assess them. In particular, their targeted manipulation and significance for practical use are discussed. A major theme is also the interdependence of many electrochemical and mechanical properties. In addition, a quantitative comparison of hitherto reported values for these parameters across various polymer classes