TL;DR: A Na 3 V 2 (PO 4 ) 3 /C sample coated uniformly with a layer of 6-nm carbon has been successfully synthesized by a one-step solid state reaction as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used spectroscopic ellipsometry to study the time-dependent formation of HF upon the thermal degradation of LiPF 6 at 50°C in a lithium ion battery electrolyte containing ethylene carbonate and diethyl carbonate.

TL;DR: In this article, the Na-ion batteries were tested with layered Na(Ni1/3Fe 1/3Mn 1 /3 )O2 cathodes and carbon anodes in a sodium-salt containing organic ester carbonate electrolyte.

TL;DR: In this article, a polyacrylate binder was used to improve the reversibility of Sn electrodes in aprotic Na cells, and the performance of the Sn electrode was further improved by adding fluoroethylene carbonate to propylene carbonate solution containing NaClO 4.

TL;DR: In this paper, the behavior of a NaFePO 4 cathode, obtained by electrochemical LiNa exchange of LiFePO4 olivine, is characterized in a sodium battery.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reported the synthesis and electrochemical characterization of Na2FeP2O7, a novel Fe-based cathode material for sodium batteries, which adopts a triclinic structure with three-dimensional channels running along [100, [−−110] and [01-1] directions.

TL;DR: In this article, reversible Mg insertion and extraction behaviors of α-MnO2, a promising cathode material for rechargeable Mg batteries, were studied using discharge-charge cycling, XRD, X-ray photo-electron spectroscopy (XPS), and Xray absorption spectroscopic (XAS).

TL;DR: In this paper, the electrocatalytic reduction of carbon dioxide at Cu based metal organic framework film surface was studied in N,N-dimethylformamide containing tetrabutylammonium tetrafluoroborate with saturated CO2.

TL;DR: In this article, a highly selective amperometric nitrite sensor using a chemically reduced graphene oxide (CR-GO) modified glassy carbon electrode (GCE) was presented.

TL;DR: In this article, the first demonstration on the use of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) as electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) was described. But, this kind of widely studied Cu(II)-based MOF was structurally unstable in aqueous media.

TL;DR: In this paper, nitrogen-doped graphene nanosheets (N-GNSs) as cathode materials delivered a discharge capacity of 11660 mAh g �1, which was about 40% higher than that with the pristine GNSs.

TL;DR: In this paper, Bismuth (Bi), antimony (Sb), and Bi1-xSbx alloys were electrodeposited as anodes for Mg-ion batteries.

TL;DR: In this article, a novel method of differentiating two types of graphene nanomaterials: graphene oxide (GO) and reduced graphene (RG) was reported, synthesized by modified Hummer's method, was subsequently reduced electrochemically (ERG) and photocatalytically (PRG).

TL;DR: In this article, a novel type of rechargeable sodium-air battery working at room temperature is constructed and examined for the first time, and the typical gravimetric capacities of the air electrodes (diamond-like carbon thin films) are 1884mm/g (565μAh/cm2) at 1/10c and 3600mm /g (1080mm/c 2 ) at 1 /60c, respectively.

TL;DR: In this article, the physical and electrochemical behaviors of the carbon-coated NaCrO 2 electrodes for sodium-ion batteries are investigated for the first time, and the authors have demonstrated the feasibility of carboncoating in improving the cyclic stability of electrode materials for sodium ion batteries.

TL;DR: In this paper, the corrosion behavior of aluminum foil that is used as the positive current collector for lithium-ion batteries is studied in N -methyl- N -propyl-pyrrolidinium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide (PMPyr-FSI), which is considered as a highly attractive solvent due to a very low viscosity.

TL;DR: An efficient electrocatalyst for hydrogen evolution has been developed based upon in situ reduction of MoS2 on ordered mesoporous carbon nanospheres (MoS2/MCNs).

TL;DR: In this article, a nonenzymatic glucose sensor was proposed based on the CoOOH nanosheets, and the electrocatalytic behaviors towards glucose were investigated by cyclic voltammetry and chronoamperometry in alkaline aqueous solution.

TL;DR: In this paper, the electrodeposition and dissolution of Zn2+ have been investigated in 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium dicyanamide [emim][dca] ionic liquid to support the development of zinc-based secondary batteries.

TL;DR: In this paper, the double layer capacitance of a high surface area material with the reversible redox activity of a polyoxometalate (POM) was obtained for supercapacitors.

TL;DR: Amorphous columnar structured silicon film electrodes were prepared and electrochemically tested in dioxolane-based electrolyte solution, containing LiNO 3, and the electrochemical performance of prelithiated amorphous silicon anodes coupled with sulfur composite cathodes was evaluated in full Si-Li-Sulfur (SLS) cells as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the preparation of nitrogen-doped carbon nano- tubes with a bamboo-like nanostructure (Bamboo-NCNTs) by catalytic pyrolysis of ethylene diamine was described.

TL;DR: In this paper, a solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) formation additive, prop-1-ene-1,3-sultone (PES), was used in propylene carbonate (PC)-based electrolyte for lithium ion batteries.

TL;DR: Tris (pentafluorophenyl) phosphine (TPFPP) is used as an electrolyte additive to improve the cycling performance of high voltage lithium-ion battery as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a thermal-driven electrochemical generator (TDEG) for waste heat conversion, which comprises a reverse electrodialysis (RED) stack and a distillation column.

TL;DR: Sulfonated Diels Alder poly(phenylene) (SDAPP) was examined for vanadium redox flow battery (VRFB) use as mentioned in this paper, and the ion exchange capacity (IEC) was varied from 1.4, 1.6 and 2.0 meq/g in order to tune the proton conductivity and vanadium permeability.

TL;DR: In this article, the structure and ionic conductivity of a lithium-ion conductive glass ceramic (LATP) was studied by means of powder X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy, and broadband impedance spectroscopy.

TL;DR: In this paper, a facile and scalable electrospinning method for preparing porous NiO fiber material by using a carbonized carbon as the self-sacrificing template was reported.

TL;DR: In this article, an aniline/o-nitroaniline copolymer was prepared by grafting electron-withdrawing o-nitron-niline groups onto polyanilines chains through a chemical oxidative polymerization and tested as a high voltage cathode material for Na-ion batteries.