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51 Citations
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24 Pages

26 October 2023

Emerging energy storage systems have received significant attention along with the development of renewable energy, thereby creating a green energy platform for humans. Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) are commonly used, such as in smartphones, tablets,...

  • Review
  • Open Access
585 Views
28 Pages

Research Progress on Cathode Materials for Sodium-Ion Batteries

  • Ran Li,
  • Haiyang Pan,
  • Mingze Zhang and
  • Yanling Lv

27 February 2026

Sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) are regarded as an important complementary technology to lithium-ion batteries due to their abundant resources and low cost, demonstrating broad application prospects, especially in large-scale energy storage. As a core co...

  • Review
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,885 Views
28 Pages

Graphene-Based Cathode Materials for Lithium-Ion Capacitors: A Review

  • Dong Sui,
  • Meijia Chang,
  • Zexin Peng,
  • Changle Li,
  • Xiaotong He,
  • Yanliang Yang,
  • Yong Liu and
  • Yanhong Lu

19 October 2021

Lithium-ion capacitors (LICs) are attracting increasing attention because of their potential to bridge the electrochemical performance gap between batteries and supercapacitors. However, the commercial application of current LICs is still impeded by...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,755 Views
20 Pages

Cathode Materials for Intermediate Temperature Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

  • Jamila Nisar,
  • Gurpreet Kaur,
  • Sarbjit Giddey,
  • Suresh Bhargava and
  • Lathe Jones

14 November 2024

Intermediate temperature solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) operation provides numerous advantages such as high combined heat and power (CHP) efficiency, potentially long-term material stability, and the use of low-cost materials. However, due to the slugg...

  • Review
  • Open Access
51 Citations
14,132 Views
16 Pages

Recent Development of Nickel-Rich and Cobalt-Free Cathode Materials for Lithium-Ion Batteries

  • Lukman Noerochim,
  • Suwarno Suwarno,
  • Nurul Hayati Idris and
  • Hermawan K. Dipojono

10 December 2021

The exponential growth in the production of electric vehicles requires an increasing supply of low-cost, high-performance lithium-ion batteries. The increased production of lithium-ion batteries raises concerns over the availability of raw materials,...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,812 Views
37 Pages

26 January 2025

Organic materials have emerged as promising candidates for cathode materials in lithium-ion batteries and supercapacitors, offering unique properties and advantages over traditional inorganic counterparts. This review investigates the use of organic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,104 Views
12 Pages

Novel High-Pressure Nanocomposites for Cathode Materials in Sodium Batteries

  • Aleksander Szpakiewicz-Szatan,
  • Szymon Starzonek,
  • Tomasz K. Pietrzak,
  • Jerzy E. Garbarczyk,
  • Sylwester J. Rzoska and
  • Michał Boćkowski

30 December 2022

A new nanocomposite material was prepared by high pressure processing of starting glass of nominal composition NaFePO4. Thermal, structural, electrical and dielectric properties of the prepared samples were studied by differential thermal analysis (D...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,396 Views
19 Pages

9 June 2023

Nickel-rich ternary cathode materials (NRTCMs) have high energy density and a long cycle life, making them one of the cathode materials of LIB that are currently receiving much attention. However, it has shortcomings such as poor cycling performance...

  • Review
  • Open Access
66 Citations
13,626 Views
25 Pages

31 May 2022

Ni-rich cathode materials have become promising candidates for lithium-based automotive batteries due to the obvious advantage of electrochemical performance. Increasing the operating voltage is an effective means to obtain a higher specific capacity...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,951 Views
9 Pages

25 March 2020

Sodium expansion plays an important role in cathode deterioration during aluminum electrolysis. In this work, the sodium expansion of semigraphitic cathode material has been measured at various cathodic current densities using a modified Rapoport app...

  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
9,459 Views
17 Pages

Layered oxides are considered prospective state-of-the-art cathode materials for fast-charging lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) owning to their economic effectiveness, high energy density, and environmentally friendly nature. Nonetheless, layered oxides...

  • Article
  • Open Access
524 Views
10 Pages

22 December 2025

This study presents a comparative analysis of the performance and modeling differences among lithium titanate oxide (LTO) batteries with three different cathode materials. An evaluation was conducted by performing performance tests over −20 &de...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,683 Views
34 Pages

Hierarchically Porous Vanadium-Based Cathode Materials for High-Performance Na-Ion Batteries

  • Kanakaraj Aruchamy,
  • Subramaniyan Ramasundaram,
  • Athinarayanan Balasankar,
  • Sivasubramani Divya,
  • Ling Fei and
  • Tae Hwan Oh

Sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) have emerged as a promising alternative to lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) in sectors requiring extensive energy storage. The abundant availability of sodium at a low cost addresses concerns associated with lithium, such as e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,362 Views
14 Pages

Influence of the Composition and Testing Modes on the Electrochemical Performance of Li-Rich Cathode Materials

  • Lidia Pechen,
  • Elena Makhonina,
  • Anna Medvedeva,
  • Yury Politov,
  • Aleksander Rumyantsev,
  • Yury Koshtyal,
  • Alexander Goloveshkin and
  • Igor Eremenko

17 November 2022

Li-rich oxides are promising cathode materials for Li-ion batteries. In this work, a number of different compositions of Li-rich materials and various electrochemical testing modes were investigated. The structure, chemical composition, and morpholog...

  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
15,138 Views
31 Pages

High-Performance High-Nickel Multi-Element Cathode Materials for Lithium-Ion Batteries

  • Xinyong Tian,
  • Ruiqi Guo,
  • Ying Bai,
  • Ning Li,
  • Xinran Wang,
  • Jiantao Wang and
  • Chuan Wu

With the rapid increase in demand for high-energy-density lithium-ion batteries in electric vehicles, smart homes, electric-powered tools, intelligent transportation, and other markets, high-nickel multi-element materials are considered to be one of...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,793 Views
32 Pages

12 October 2025

The structure, chemical composition, thermal stability, and abuse responses of cathode materials are critical to the safety and economy of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). This review systematically summarizes advances in research on how cathode materia...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,819 Views
15 Pages

13 April 2023

Ni-rich cathodes are expected to serve as critical materials for high-energy lithium-ion batteries. Increasing the Ni content can effectively improve the energy density but usually leads to more complex synthesis conditions, thus limiting its develop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,768 Views
17 Pages

Prussian Blue Analogues Based on 3d-Metals as Cathode Materials for Magnesium Ion Batteries

  • Andrey Arbenin,
  • Semyon Egorov,
  • Igor Prikhodko,
  • Anna Fedorova,
  • Anastasia Penkova and
  • Artem Selyutin

4 February 2025

Prussian blue PB analogues (K;Mg)xM[Fe(CN)6] were obtained via the co-precipitation method. Manganese, iron, cobalt, nickel, copper and zinc were selected to obtain the metal hexacyanoferrates (MHCFs) of these metals and to systematically study their...

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
10,000 Views
19 Pages

Li-Rich Mn-Based Cathode Materials for Li-Ion Batteries: Progress and Perspective

  • Weibin Guo,
  • Zhangzhao Weng,
  • Chongyang Zhou,
  • Min Han,
  • Naien Shi,
  • Qingshui Xie and
  • Dong-Liang Peng

The development of cathode materials with high specific capacity is the key to obtaining high-performance lithium-ion batteries, which are crucial for the efficient utilization of clean energy and the realization of carbon neutralization goals. Li-ri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,550 Views
12 Pages

Preparation and Properties of F-Doped PrBa0.8Sr0.2Co2O5+δ Perovskite Cathode Materials

  • Mengxin Li,
  • Songbo Li,
  • Shengli An,
  • Ning Li,
  • Runze Sun,
  • Yuanyuan Ma,
  • Hongli Qiao,
  • Yanpeng Liu and
  • Xu Zhang

F-doped PrBa0.8Sr0.2Co2O5+δ−xFx (PBSCFx, x = 0, 0.025, 0.05, 0.075, 0.1) cathode powder was synthesized by the sol–gel method. X-ray diffraction results showed that all the samples doped with F exhibited a typical tetragonal perovsk...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,322 Views
11 Pages

Porous CuO Microspheres as Long-Lifespan Cathode Materials for Aqueous Zinc-Ion Batteries

  • Yuqing Ai,
  • Qiang Pang,
  • Xinyu Liu,
  • Fangyun Xin,
  • Hong Wang,
  • Mingming Xing,
  • Yao Fu and
  • Ying Tian

3 July 2024

Cathode materials with conversion mechanisms for aqueous zinc-ion batteries (AZIBs) have shown a great potential as next-generation energy storage materials due to their high discharge capacity and high energy density. However, improving their cyclin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,614 Views
13 Pages

7 April 2020

Herein, a series of novel disulfide polymers were synthesized by using the raw materials of diallyl-o-phthalate, tung oil, peanut oil, and styrene. Four kinds of products: Poly (sulfur-diallyl-o-phthalate) copolymer, poly (sulfur-tung oil) copolymer,...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,153 Views
33 Pages

16 May 2025

With the large-scale application of lithium-ion batteries in the field of new energy, many retired lithium batteries not only cause environmental pollution problems but also lead to serious waste of resources. Repairing failed lithium batteries and r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,837 Views
14 Pages

20 December 2022

The separation of graphites and cathode materials from spent lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) is essential to close the loop of material used in LIBs. In this study, the roasting characteristics of the spent LIB materials are carefully analyzed, and the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
7,069 Views
14 Pages

7 February 2019

With the rapid increase in production of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) and environmental issues arising around the world, cathode materials, as the key component of all LIBs, especially need to be environmentally sustainable. However, a variety of lif...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,795 Views
32 Pages

21 October 2025

Owing to the inherent safety, environmental friendliness, and high theoretical capacity (820 mAh g−1) of zinc metal, aqueous zinc-ion batteries (AZIBs) have emerged as up-and-coming alternatives to organic lithium-ion batteries. However, the in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
3,526 Views
13 Pages

Enhanced Structural Stability and Electrochemical Performance of LiNi0.6Co0.2Mn0.2O2 Cathode Materials by Ga Doping

  • Zhibei Liu,
  • Jiangang Li,
  • Meijie Zhu,
  • Li Wang,
  • Yuqiong Kang,
  • Zhaohan Dang,
  • Jiasen Yan and
  • Xiangming He

7 April 2021

Structural instability during cycling is an important factor affecting the electrochemical performance of nickel-rich ternary cathode materials for Li-ion batteries. In this work, enhanced structural stability and electrochemical performance of LiNi0...

  • Review
  • Open Access
68 Citations
10,497 Views
31 Pages

Layered Oxygen-Deficient Double Perovskites as Promising Cathode Materials for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells

  • Andrei I. Klyndyuk,
  • Ekaterina A. Chizhova,
  • Dzmitry S. Kharytonau and
  • Dmitry A. Medvedev

25 December 2021

Development of new functional materials with improved characteristics for solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) and solid oxide electrolysis cells (SOECs) is one of the most important tasks of modern materials science. High electrocatalytic activity in oxyg...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,161 Views
3 Pages

The sulfur-containing PAN composite cathode materials for lithium/sulfur batteries were prepared by suspension polymerization method and electrochemical properties of lithium/sulfur cells were investigated. The sulfur composite cathode was characteri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,439 Views
21 Pages

The Role of Protective Surface Coatings on the Thermal Stability of Delithiated Ni-Rich Layered Oxide Cathode Materials

  • Friederike Reissig,
  • Joaquin Ramirez-Rico,
  • Tobias Johannes Placke,
  • Martin Winter,
  • Richard Schmuch and
  • Aurora Gomez-Martin

To achieve a broader public acceptance for electric vehicles based on lithium-ion battery (LIB) technology, long driving ranges, low cost, and high safety are needed. A promising pathway to address these key parameters lies in the further improvement...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,747 Views
11 Pages

13 March 2019

Co-doped Li2MoO3 was successfully synthesized via a solid phase method. The impacts of Co-doping on Li2MoO3 have been analyzed by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), X-ray powder diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscope (SEM), and Fourier...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,330 Views
11 Pages

Electrochemical Performance of Highly Conductive Nanocrystallized Glassy Alluaudite-Type Cathode Materials for NIBs

  • Maciej Nowagiel,
  • Mateusz J. Samsel,
  • Edvardas Kazakevicius,
  • Aldona Zalewska,
  • Algimantas Kežionis and
  • Tomasz K. Pietrzak

1 April 2022

Alluaudite-type materials are systematically attracting more attention as prospective cathode materials for sodium-ion batteries. It has been demonstrated that optimized thermal nanocrystallization of glassy analogs of various cathode materials may l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,260 Views
13 Pages

Effects of Lithium Source and Content on the Properties of Li-Rich Layered Oxide Cathode Materials

  • Yufan Wang,
  • Marianna Hietaniemi,
  • Juho Välikangas,
  • Tao Hu,
  • Pekka Tynjälä and
  • Ulla Lassi

Lithium-rich layered oxide (LLO) are considered high-capacity cathode materials for next-generation lithium-ion batteries. In this study, LLO cathode materials were synthesized via the hydroxide coprecipitation method followed by a two-step lithiatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,508 Views
13 Pages

3 February 2019

Li1.27Cr0.2Mn0.53O2 layered cathodic materials were prepared by a nanomilling-assisted solid-state process. Whole-pattern refinement of X-ray diffraction (XRD) data revealed that the samples are solid solutions with layered α-NaFeO2 structure....

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,321 Views
14 Pages

Cryochemically Processed Li1+yMn1.95Ni0.025Co0.025O4 (y = 0, 0.1) Cathode Materials for Li-Ion Batteries

  • Ofok O. Normakhmedov,
  • Oleg A. Brylev,
  • Dmitrii I. Petukhov,
  • Konstantin A. Kurilenko,
  • Tatiana L. Kulova,
  • Elena K. Tuseeva and
  • Alexander M. Skundin

8 July 2018

A new route for the preparation of nickel and cobalt substituted spinel cathode materials (LiMn1.95Co0.025Ni0.025O4 and Li1.1Mn1.95Co0.025Ni0.025O4) by freeze-drying of acetate precursors followed by heat treatment was suggested in the present work....

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,762 Views
12 Pages

Prussian blue analogs are promising cathode materials in aqueous ion batteries that have attracted increasing attention, but their low specific capacity and limited cycling stability remain to be further improved. Effective strategies to optimize the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,904 Views
13 Pages

The increasing global market size of high-energy storage devices due to the boom in electric vehicles and portable electronics has caused the battery industry to produce a lot of waste lithium-ion batteries. The liberation and de-agglomeration of cat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,556 Views
12 Pages

Polypyrrole-Derived Nitrogen-Doped Tubular Carbon Materials as a Promising Cathode for Aqueous Aluminum-Ion Batteries

  • Xiaoming Zhou,
  • Xiaolei Li,
  • Jiaming Duan,
  • Lihao Zhang,
  • Xinyu Mo,
  • Qing Wu,
  • Yang Liu,
  • Guohui Yuan and
  • Miaosen Yang

25 November 2024

The advantages of aluminum-ion batteries in the area of power source systems are: inexpensive manufacture, high capacity, and absolute security. However, due to the limitations of cathode materials, the capacity and durability of aluminum-ion batteri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,405 Views
11 Pages

Improved Electrochemical Performance of Li-Rich Cathode Materials via Spinel Li2MoO4 Coating

  • Shuhao Zhang,
  • Yun Ye,
  • Zhaoxiong Chen,
  • Qinghao Lai,
  • Tie Liu,
  • Qiang Wang and
  • Shuang Yuan

17 August 2023

Li-rich manganese-based cathode materials (LRMs) are considered one of the most promising cathode materials for the next generation of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) because of their high energy density. However, there are problems such as a capacity d...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,725 Views
20 Pages

11 September 2023

Despite substantial research efforts in developing high-voltage sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) as high-energy-density alternatives to complement lithium-ion-based energy storage technologies, the lifetime of high-voltage SIBs is still associated with ma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,537 Views
16 Pages

The improper disposal of retired lithium batteries will cause environmental pollution and a waste of resources. In this study, a waste lithium iron phosphate battery was used as a raw material, and cathode and metal materials in the battery were sepa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,068 Views
17 Pages

12 December 2022

Nowadays, the use of biomass to produce cathode materials for lithium–sulfur (Li-S) batteries is an excellent alternative due to its numerous advantages. Generally, biomass-derived materials are abundant, and their production processes are envi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,692 Views
21 Pages

Improved Electrochemical Behavior and Thermal Stability of Li and Mn-Rich Cathode Materials Modified by Lithium Sulfate Surface Treatment

  • Hadar Sclar,
  • Sandipan Maiti,
  • Rosy Sharma,
  • Evan M. Erickson,
  • Judith Grinblat,
  • Ravikumar Raman,
  • Michael Talianker,
  • Malachi Noked,
  • Aleksandr Kondrakov and
  • Doron Aurbach
  • + 1 author

High-energy cathode materials that are Li- and Mn-rich lithiated oxides—for instance, 0.35Li2MnO3.0.65LiNi0.35Mn0.45Co0.20O2 (HE-NCM)—are promising for advanced lithium-ion batteries. However, HE-NCM cathodes suffer from severe degradatio...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
29 Citations
9,373 Views
16 Pages

27 January 2023

Sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) have been widely explored by researchers because of their abundant raw materials, uniform distribution, high-energy density and conductivity, low cost, and high safety. In recent years, theoretical calculations and experim...

  • Review
  • Open Access
55 Citations
9,959 Views
26 Pages

22 August 2019

This review article presents the literature survey on radio frequency (RF)-magnetron sputtered LiCoO2 thin films used as cathode materials in all-solid-state rechargeable lithium microbatteries. As the process parameters lead to a variety of texture...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,564 Views
5 Pages

S/C Composites with Different Carbon Matrices as Cathode Materials for Metal–Sulfur Batteries

  • Svetlana Novikova,
  • Daria Voropaeva,
  • Sergey Li and
  • Andrey Yaroslavtsev

This work is devoted to a comparative study of the electrochemical properties of S/C composites with different carbon matrices, namely, carbon nanotubes, mesoporous carbon and N-doped carbon nanoflakes, as cathode materials for lithium–sulfur a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,293 Views
10 Pages

11 January 2023

Large-scale popularization and application make the role of lithium-ion batteries increasingly prominent and the requirements for energy density have increased significantly. The silicon-based material has ultra-high specific capacity, which is expec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
12,011 Views
13 Pages

Preparation of LiFePO4/C Cathode Materials via a Green Synthesis Route for Lithium-Ion Battery Applications

  • Rongyue Liu,
  • Jianjun Chen,
  • Zhiwen Li,
  • Qing Ding,
  • Xiaoshuai An,
  • Yi Pan,
  • Zhu Zheng,
  • Minwei Yang and
  • Dongju Fu

12 November 2018

In this work, LiFePO4/C composite were synthesized via a green route by using Iron (III) oxide (Fe2O3) nanoparticles, Lithium carbonate (Li2CO3), glucose powder and phosphoric acid (H3PO4) solution as raw materials. The reaction principles for the sy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,873 Views
10 Pages

Cracks Formation in Lithium-Rich Cathode Materials for Lithium-Ion Batteries during the Electrochemical Process

  • Tao Cheng,
  • Zhongtao Ma,
  • Run Gu,
  • Riming Chen,
  • Yingchun Lyu,
  • Anmin Nie and
  • Bingkun Guo

11 October 2018

The lithium-rich Li[Li0.2Ni0.13Mn0.54Co0.13]O2 nanoplates were synthesized using a molten-salt method. The nanoplates showed an initial reversible discharge capacity of 233 mA·h·g−1, with a fast capacity decay. The morphology and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,055 Views
17 Pages

17 May 2023

The phase structure of the precursor is crucial for the microstructure evolution and stability of Ni-rich cathode materials. Using sodium lactate as a green complexing agent, cathode electrode materials with different phase structures and unique core...

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