Amorphous energy storage

What are amorphous materials?

Amorphous materials with unique structural features of long-range disorder and short-range order possess advantageous properties such as intrinsic isotropy, abundant active sites, structural flexibility, and fast ion diffusion, which are emerging as prospective electrodes for electrochemical energy storage and conversion.

Can self-supported amorphous nanomaterials be used for energy storage and conversion devices?

In particular, tremendous efforts have been devoted to the design, fabrication, and evaluation of self-supported amorphous nanomaterials as electrodes for energy storage and conversion devices in the past decade.

What are amorphous nanomaterials used for?

Special attention is devoted to the fundamental understanding of the underlying electrochemical energy storage mechanisms and to the significant roles that amorphous nanomaterials can play in different electrochemical applications, including Li-ion batteries, Li-metal batteries, and supercapacitors.

Are amorphous nanomaterials a promising electrode material?

To date, amorphous nanomaterials are emerging as prospective electrode materials with outstanding electrochemical performance in the field of LIBs, Li-metal batteries, and supercapacitors owing to their unique physico-chemical properties.

How can amorphous materials improve the stability of post-Lib batteries?

In this regard, the advances in flexibility and isotropy of amorphous materials could offer numerous ion migration pathways for the respective electrodes, resulting in smaller volume variation when the heavier ions intercalate into the layers. This clearly helps to improve both the capacity and the stability of the post-LIB batteries.

What is metastable 2D amorphous interface?

Metastable 2D amorphous interface offers exceptional energy storage performance. The electrode exhibits ultra-high stability for aqueous capacitive energy storage. Nb 2 O 5 is a promising electrode material of energy storage due to its high specific capacity and phase transition resistance.