Recent Advances of Bimetallic Sulfide Anodes for Sodium Ion Batteries

Yu Huang; Dongbin Xiong; Xifei Li; Hirbod Maleki Kheimeh Sari; Jianhong Peng; Yingying Li; Yunyan Li; Dejun Li; Qian Sun; Xueliang Sun

doi:10.3389/fchem.2020.00353

Recent Advances of Bimetallic Sulfide Anodes for Sodium Ion Batteries

Front Chem. 2020 May 6:8:353. doi: 10.3389/fchem.2020.00353. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Yu Huang¹, Dongbin Xiong², Xifei Li^{1

2

3}, Hirbod Maleki Kheimeh Sari², Jianhong Peng⁴, Yingying Li¹, Yunyan Li¹, Dejun Li¹, Qian Sun⁵, Xueliang Sun^{1

2

5}

Affiliations

¹ Tianjin International Joint Research Center of Surface Technology for Energy Storage Materials, College of Physics and Materials Science, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, China.
² Xi'an Key Laboratory of New Energy Materials and Devices, Institute of Advanced Electrochemical Energy & School of Materials Science and Engineering, Xi'an University of Technology, Xi'an, China.
³ State Center for International Cooperation on Designer Low-carbon & Environmental Materials (CDLCEM), Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China.
⁴ School of Physical and Electronic Information Engineering, Qinghai Nationalities University, Xining, China.
⁵ Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada.

Abstract

The high usage for new energy has been promoting the next-generation energy storage systems (ESS). As promising alternatives to lithium ion batteries (LIBs), sodium ion batteries (SIBs) have caused extensive research interest owing to the high natural Na abundance of 2.4 wt.% (vs. 0.0017 wt.% for Li) in the earth's crust and the low cost of it. The development of high-performance electrode materials has been challenging due to the increase in the feasibility of SIBs technology. In the past years, bimetallic sulfides (BMSs) with high theoretical capacity and outstanding redox reversibility have shown great promise as high performance anode materials for SIBs. Herein, the recent advancements of BMSs as anode for SIBs are reported, and the electrochemical mechanism of these electrodes are systematically investigated. In addition, the current issues, challenges, and perspectives are highlighted to address the extensive understanding of the associated electrochemical process, aiming to provide an insightful outlook for possible directions of anode materials for SIBs.

Keywords: anode materials; bimetallic sulfides; energy storage systems; lithium ion batteries; sodium ion batteries.

Publication types

Review