Nature Communications (Jul 2021)

Atomic-scale regulation of anionic and cationic migration in alkali metal batteries

  • Pan Xiong,
  • Fan Zhang,
  • Xiuyun Zhang,
  • Yifan Liu,
  • Yunyan Wu,
  • Shijian Wang,
  • Javad Safaei,
  • Bing Sun,
  • Renzhi Ma,
  • Zongwen Liu,
  • Yoshio Bando,
  • Takayoshi Sasaki,
  • Xin Wang,
  • Junwu Zhu,
  • Guoxiu Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24399-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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An optimized transport of anions and cations is essential for the development of practical alkali metal batteries. Here, the authors report the use of Ti0.87O2 nanosheets as coating material of polypropylene separators for Li-S, Li-Se and Na-Se cells.