Flexible Electrodes for Sodium-Ion Batteries: Recent Progress and Perspectives

Heng-Guo Wang; Wang Li; Da-Peng Liu; Xi-Lan Feng; Jin Wang; Xiao-Yang Yang; Xin-Bo Zhang; Yujie Zhu; Yu Zhang

doi:10.1002/adma.201703012

Flexible Electrodes for Sodium-Ion Batteries: Recent Progress and Perspectives

Adv Mater. 2017 Dec;29(45). doi: 10.1002/adma.201703012. Epub 2017 Aug 21.

Authors

Heng-Guo Wang^{1

2}, Wang Li³, Da-Peng Liu³, Xi-Lan Feng³, Jin Wang¹, Xiao-Yang Yang¹, Xin-Bo Zhang¹, Yujie Zhu^{4

5}, Yu Zhang^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Resource Utilization, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, 130022, P. R. China.
² School of Materials Science and Engineering, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun, 130022, P. R. China.
³ School of Chemistry, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, P. R. China.
⁴ Key Laboratory of Bio-Inspired Smart Interfacial Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, P. R. China.
⁵ Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, P. R. China.

PMID: 28833640
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201703012

Abstract

Sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) are considered as promising alternatives to lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) for large-scale electrical-energy-storage applications due to the wide availability and the low cost of Na resources. Along with the avenues of research on flexible LIBs, flexible SIBs are now being actively developed as one of the most promising power sources for the emerging field of flexible and wearable electronic devices. Here, the recent progress on flexible electrodes based on metal substrates, carbonaceous substrates (i.e., graphene, carbon cloth, and carbon nanofibers), and other materials, as well as their applications in flexible SIBs, are summarized. Also, some future research directions for constructing flexible SIBs are proposed, with the aim of providing inspiration to the further development of advanced flexible SIBs.

Keywords: energy storage; flexible electrodes; free-standing substrates; sodium-ion batteries.

Publication types

Review