Strategies and Challenge of Thick Electrodes for Energy Storage: A Review
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Abstract
In past years, lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) can be found in every aspect of life, and batteries, as energy storage systems (ESSs), need to offer electric vehicles (EVs) more competition to be accepted in markets for automobiles. Thick electrode design can reduce the use of non-active materials in batteries to improve the energy density of the batteries and reduce the cost of the batteries. However, thick electrodes are limited by their weak mechanical stability and poor electrochemical performance; these limitations could be classified as the critical cracking thickness (CCT) and the limited penetration depth (LPD). The understanding of the CCT and the LPD have been proposed and the recent works on breaking the CCT and improving the LPD are listed in this article. By comprising these attempts, some thick electrodes could not offer higher mass loading or higher accessible areal capacity that would defeat the purpose.
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OpenAlex topics: Advanced Battery Technologies Research · Advancements in Battery Materials · Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies
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Clean Energy Automotive Engineering Center and School of Automotive Studies, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China
China Shenhua Coal to Liquid and Chemical Shanghai Research Institute, Shanghai 201108, China
Department of Electrical Engineering, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA
Funding
China Shenhua Coal to Liquid and Chemical Shanghai Research Institute · National Science Foundation of China · Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities at Tongji University
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