Energy Storage Materials: Discovery and Electrochemistry

电化学能量存储从未像今天这样重要。发展可行的，长期的解决方案，将满足全球能源需求仍然是科学家面临的最关键的挑战之一？C社区 随着能源成本和可持续性问题的不断增加，国际上对能源储存（及其合作伙伴能源转换）的关注迅速增长。 在我们的NSERC发现资助研究过程中，我们取得了突破性的发现，改变了电化学家对储能的看法。我们在这一领域的初步工作发表在2009年的《自然材料》杂志上，并描述了在有限尺寸中进行能量存储的“第一次”。 这一发现启动了锂硫电池领域，此后该领域呈指数级增长。 此外，这一发现有助于为锂（和钠）氧电池的发展指明方向，并且沿着钠离子电化学已成为“超越锂离子电池”的新方法的基础。

Electrochemical energy storage has never been more important than today. The development of viable, long-term solutions that will meet global energy needs remains one of the most critical challenges facing the scienti?c community. Amid burgeoning energy costs and sustainability concerns, international focus on energy storage (and its partner energy conversion) has rapidly gained momentum. During the course of our NSERC discovery grant research, we have made a breakthrough discovery that is changing the way electrochemists think about energy storage. Our initial work in this area was reported in Nature Materials, 2009 and described “a first” for energy storage in confined dimensions. This finding kick-started the field of lithium-sulfur batteries that has increased exponentially ever since. Moreover, this discovery helped point the way to developments in Li (and Na)-oxygen batteries, and along with Na-ion electrochemistry has become the foundation for new approaches to “beyond Li-ion batteries”.