Sustainability-inspired cell design for a fully recyclable sodium ion battery

Tiefeng Liu; Yaping Zhang; Chao Chen; Zhan Lin; Shanqing Zhang; Jun Lu

doi:10.1038/s41467-019-09933-0

Nature Communications (Apr 2019)

Sustainability-inspired cell design for a fully recyclable sodium ion battery

Tiefeng Liu,
Yaping Zhang,
Chao Chen,
Zhan Lin,
Shanqing Zhang,
Jun Lu

Affiliations

Tiefeng Liu: School of Chemical Engineering and Light Industry, Guangdong University of Technology
Yaping Zhang: State Key Laboratory of Environment-friendly Energy Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Southwest University of Science and Technology
Chao Chen: School of Chemical Engineering and Light Industry, Guangdong University of Technology
Zhan Lin: School of Chemical Engineering and Light Industry, Guangdong University of Technology
Shanqing Zhang: Centre for Clean Environment and Energy, Environmental Futures Research Institute and Griffith School of Environment, Griffith University
Jun Lu: Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09933-0
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Effective recycling technologies represent a solution to the sustainability and environmental consequences of spent rechargeable batteries. Here, the authors show a bipolar electrode design that allows not only good electrochemical performance but a closed loop of material use for sodium ion batteries.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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