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Graphene: A promising candidate for charge regulation in high- performance lithium-ion batteries

Show Author's Information Danping Sun1,2,§,  Zhi Tan2,§,  Xuzheng Tian2,  Fei Ke2,  Yale Wu2,  Jin Zhang1,2( )
College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Beijing Science and Engineering Center for Nanocarbons, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular SciencesPeking UniversityBeijing100871China
Beijing Graphene Institute (BGI)Beijing100095China

§Danping Sun and Zhi Tan contributed equally to this work.

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The development of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) is being driven by the ever-increasing demand for high energy density and excellent rate performance. Charge transfer kinetics and polarization theory, considered as basic principles for charge regulation in the LIBs, indicate that the rapid transfer of both electrons and ions is vital to the electrochemical reaction process. Graphene, a promising candidate for charge regulation in high-performance LIBs, has received extensive investigations due to its excellent carrier mobility, large specific surface area and structure tunability, etc. Recent progresses on the structural design and interfacial modification of graphene to regulate the charge transport in LIBs have been summarized. Besides, the structure- performance relationships between the structure of the graphene and its dedicated applications for LIBs have also been clarified in detail. Taking graphene as a typical example to explore the mechanism of charge regulation will outline ways to further understand and improve carbon-based nanomaterials towards the next generation of electrochemical energy storage devices.


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Graphene: A promising candidate for charge regulation in high- performance lithium-ion batteries

Show Author's information Danping Sun1,2,§, Zhi Tan2,§, Xuzheng Tian2, Fei Ke2, Yale Wu2, Jin Zhang1,2( )
College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Beijing Science and Engineering Center for Nanocarbons, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular SciencesPeking UniversityBeijing100871China
Beijing Graphene Institute (BGI)Beijing100095China

§Danping Sun and Zhi Tan contributed equally to this work.

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The development of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) is being driven by the ever-increasing demand for high energy density and excellent rate performance. Charge transfer kinetics and polarization theory, considered as basic principles for charge regulation in the LIBs, indicate that the rapid transfer of both electrons and ions is vital to the electrochemical reaction process. Graphene, a promising candidate for charge regulation in high-performance LIBs, has received extensive investigations due to its excellent carrier mobility, large specific surface area and structure tunability, etc. Recent progresses on the structural design and interfacial modification of graphene to regulate the charge transport in LIBs have been summarized. Besides, the structure- performance relationships between the structure of the graphene and its dedicated applications for LIBs have also been clarified in detail. Taking graphene as a typical example to explore the mechanism of charge regulation will outline ways to further understand and improve carbon-based nanomaterials towards the next generation of electrochemical energy storage devices.

Keywords: graphene, charge transport, lithium-ion battery, electron and ion transfer

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Received: 25 January 2021
Revised: 13 February 2021
Accepted: 15 February 2021
Published: 26 April 2021
Issue date: December 2021

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Acknowledgements

The authors thank Shanshan Wang and Yangyong Sun from Peking university for their kind suggestions. This work was financially supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (Nos. 2016YFA0200100 and 2018YFA0703502), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 52021006, 51720105003, 21790052, and 21974004), the Strategic Priority Research Program of CAS (No. XDB36030100), and the Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (No. BNLMS- CXTD-202001).

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