Owing to their rich structural chemistry and unique electrochemical properties, vanadium-based materials, especially the low-dimensional ones, are showing promising applications in energy storage and conversion. In this invited review, low-dimensiona...
One of the hottest research topics at present is the construction of environmentally friendly and secure aqueous zinc-ion batteries (AZIBs) using an aqueous electrolyte instead of an organic electrolyte. As a result of their diverse structure, valenc...
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...
Vanadium-based cathodes are promising for aqueous zinc-ion batteries (ZIBs) due to the large interlayer distance. However, the poor stability of electrode materials due to the dissolution effects has severely hindered the commercial development. To a...
Aqueous zinc ion batteries (AZIBs) are an ideal choice for a new generation of large energy storage devices because of their high safety and low cost. Vanadium oxide-based materials have attracted great attention in the field of AZIB cathode material...
Ammonium vanadium oxide (NH4V4O10) is a promising layered cathode for aqueous zinc-ion batteries owing to its high specific capacity (>300 mA h g−1). However, the structural instability causes serious cycling degradation through irreversible...
During the controllable synthesis of two vanadium-containing Keggin-type polyoxoniobates (PONbs), [Ni(en)2]5[PNb12O40(VO)5](OH)5·18H2O (1) and [Ni(en)3]5[PNb12O40(VO)2]∙17H2O (2, en = ethylenediamine) are realized by changing the vanadiu...
Commercial carbon-based electrodes such as graphite felt and carbon felt in all-vanadium redox flow batteries suffer from inherent drawbacks, including slow vanadium ion redox kinetics, insufficient intrinsic catalytic activity, fiber corrosion, and...
To achieve the large-scale, high-value utilization of vanadium–titanium slag (VTS) in the metallurgical industry, this study replaces blast furnace slag (BFS) with VTS to construct a quaternary all-solid-waste cementitious system composed of VT...
Aqueous zinc-ion batteries are considered one of the promising large-scale energy storage devices of the future because of their high energy density, simple preparation process, efficient and safe discharge process, abundant zinc reserves, and low co...
Since the discovery of two-dimensional transition metal carbides and nitrides (MXenes), MXenes have attracted widespread research in the academic community due to their advantages, such as adjustable interlayer spacing, excellent hydrophilicity, cond...
Vanadium-based materials have the advantages of abundant valence states and stable structures, having great application potential as cathode materials in metal-ion batteries. However, their low voltage and vanadium dissolution in traditional water-ba...
Micro-nanostructured electrode materials are characterized by excellent performance in various secondary batteries. In this study, a facile and green hydrothermal method was developed to prepare amorphous vanadium-based microspheres on a large scale....
Vanadium–titanium-based materials exhibit outstanding application potential in advanced energy storage systems, including ion batteries, flow batteries, and supercapacitors, owing to their excellent electrochemical performance, environmental co...
V-containing mixed oxide catalytic materials are well known as active for partial oxidation reactions. Oxidation reactions are used in industrial chemistry and for the abatement of pollutants. An analysis of the literature in this field during the pa...
Vanadium-based electrode materials are limited in practical applications, due to their low energy density, cycling instability, and poor electrochemical stability. To address these limitations, a wood-derived vanadium oxide (VOx) electrode was develo...
Layered vanadium-based materials are considered to be great potential electrode materials for aqueous Zn-ion batteries (AZIBs). The improvement of the electrochemical properties of vanadium-based materials is a hot research topic but still a challeng...
Silver vanadates (SVOs) have been widely investigated as cathode materials for high-performance lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). However, similar to most vanadium-based materials, SVOs suffer from structural collapse/amorphization and vanadium dissoluti...
The application of metals in biological systems has been a rapidly growing branch of science. Vanadium has been investigated and reported as an anticancer agent. Melanoma is the most aggressive type of skin cancer, the incidence of which has been inc...
This article presents a thermal-switchable metamaterial absorber (TSMA) based on the phase-change material of vanadium dioxide (VO2). VO2 thin film was deposited on sapphire substrate by magnetron sputtering followed by vacuum annealing treatment. Th...
Vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFBs) have emerged as a promising energy storage solution for stabilizing power grids integrated with renewable energy sources. In this study, we synthesized and evaluated a series of zeolitic imidazolate framework-67...
Vanadium(IV) complexes are actively studied as potential candidates for molecular spin qubits operating at room temperatures. They have longer electron spin decoherence times than many other transition ions, being the key property for applications in...
Mixed potential ammonia gas sensors were fabricated by using two sensing materials of Ni3V2O8 and Au-V2O5 as working electrodes, YSZ as electrolyte and platinum as reference electrode. The results have shown that the Ni3V2O8 sensors show cross-sensit...
Large-scale energy storage using sodium ion batteries (SIBs) as a hub for the conversion of renewable energy has become a topic of great importance. However, the application of SIBs is hindered by low energy density arising from inferior capacity and...
Energy storage technology is crucial for addressing the intermittency of renewable energy sources and plays a key role in power systems and electronic devices. In the field of energy storage systems, multivalent vanadium-based oxides have attracted w...
Due to safety problems caused by the use of organic electrolytes in lithium-ion batteries and the high production cost brought by the limited lithium resources, water-based zinc-ion batteries have become a new research focus in the field of energy st...
In this work, novel sodium-intercalated vanadium oxide nanowire electrode materials (NaXV@CC) were successfully designed as cathode materials for Aqueous Zinc-Ion Batteries (AZIBs) through a two-step electrochemical process. The optimized electrode m...
Paper-based microfluidic technology is a relatively new field of research that provides low-cost platforms and sensors for point-of-care diagnostics. While the majority of research in this field has been for biomedical applications, more and more pap...
The practical application of vanadium-based cathode materials in aqueous zinc-ion batteries (AZIBs) is severely hindered by vanadium dissolution, low electronic conductivity, and sluggish reaction kinetics in aqueous electrolytes. In this work, a thr...
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...
Vanadium-based compounds exhibit a high theoretical capacity to be used as anode materials in sodium-ion batteries, but the volume change in the active ions during the process of release leads to structural instability during the cycle. The structure...
One-dimensional (1D) vanadium oxide nanobelts (VOx NBs) with variable V valence, which include V3O7·H2O NBs, VO2 (B) NBs and V2O5 NBs, were prepared by a simple hydrothermal treatment under a controllable reductive environment and a following...
Potassium-ion batteries (KIBs) have attracted significant attention in recent years as a result of the urgent necessity to develop sustainable, low-cost batteries based on non-critical raw materials that are competitive with market-available lithium-...
Aqueous supercapacitors are a class of crucial high-power, long-life, safe and reliable energy storage devices, with their performance fundamentally dependent on electrode materials. Two-dimensional (2D) vanadium-based MXenes, possessing rich multiva...
Sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) have received considerable attention in recent years. Anode material is one of the key factors that determine SIBs’ electrochemical performance. Current commercial hard carbon anode shows poor rate performance, which...
This study deals with the numerical estimation of the fatigue life represented in the form of strength-life (S-N, or Wöhler) curves of metals with different crystallographic structures, namely body-centered cubic (BCC) and face-centered cubic (F...
The ‘Tomb of the Philosophers’, owing its name to the iconographic theme depicted on the interior of its walls, offers a rare example of high-quality early Hellenistic painting, which enhances our knowledge on the use of painting material...
In modern dual-pressure nitric acid plants, the tail gas temperature usually exceeds 300 °C. The NH3-SCR catalyst used in this temperature range must be resistant to thermal deactivation, so commercial vanadium-based systems, such as V2O5-WO3 (Mo...
Sodium-ion batteries are a technology rapidly approaching widespread adoption, so studying the thermal stability and safety of their components is a pressing issue. In this work, we employed differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and ex situ powder...
The growing global energy demand and increasing environmental concerns have created the need for the development of efficient, safe, and sustainable energy storage technologies. While lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) have dominated the energy storage mar...
The escalating depletion of fossil fuels and the attendant environmental concerns have spurred the pursuit of advanced energy storage systems. Aqueous zinc-ion batteries (AZIBs) stand out as promising candidates due to their inherent safety, cost-eff...
Solid-state hydrogen storage technology has emerged as a disruptive solution to the “last mile” challenge in large-scale hydrogen energy applications, garnering significant global research attention. This paper systematically reviews the...
Aqueous zinc-ion batteries (AZIBs) are promising for large-scale grid storage due to inherent safety, low cost, environmental compatibility, high theoretical capacity (820 mAhg−1), and suitable redox potential (−0.763 V vs. SHE). However,...
Among the challenges related to rechargeable magnesium batteries (RMBs) still not resolved are positive electrode materials with sufficient charge storage and rate capability as well as stability and raw material resources. Out of the materials propo...
This review article is a comprehensive report on vanadium oxides which are interesting materials for environmental applications. Therefore, a general overview of vanadium and its related oxides are presented in the first two parts. Afterwards, the ph...
Current Pt-based methane combustion catalysts require high noble metal loadings (≥1 wt%) and exhibit insufficient low-temperature activity. To address this, we developed a 0.5 wt% Pt catalyst supported by sulfate-modified Fe-Ce-TiO2 (denoted 0.5Pt...
In this study, a hierarchically confined Pt/MnO2–meso-Al2O3 catalyst with 0.5 wt% Pt loading was synthesized via a precipitation method using MnO2 as a promoter and mesoporous Al2O3 (m-Al2O3) as a support, and its methane catalytic combustion p...
In this study, we investigated the electrochemical corrosion behavior and mechanisms of FeCrNi/WC alloys with varying contents of CTC-S (spherical WC) and CTC-A (angular WC) in a 3.5 wt.% NaCl solution, addressing the corrosion resistance requirement...
The spark plasma sintering (SPS) process was used to create iron-based composites reinforced with tungsten carbide (WC) particles of various morphologies, and the effect of WC particle morphology on material wear resistance was systematically investi...
TiH2-basd powder metallurgy (PM) is one of the effective ways to prepared high temperature titanium alloy. To study the thermomechanical behavior of near-α titanium alloy and proper design of hot forming, isothermal compression test of TiH2-bas...
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