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Which materials can be used for energy storage?

Materials possessing these features offer considerable promise for energy storage applications: (i) 2D materials that contain transition metals (such as layered transition metal oxides 12, carbides 15 and dichalcogenides 16) and (ii) materials with 3D interconnected channels (such as T-Nb 2 O 5 (ref. 17 or MnO 2 spinel 12).

Which electrochemical energy storage technologies are most attractive?

Lithium–air and lithium–sulfur batteries are presently among the most attractive electrochemical energy-storage technologies because of their exceptionally high energy content in contrast to insertion-electrode Li + -ion batteries.

Why do we need high-energy density energy storage materials?

From mobile devices to the power grid, the needs for high-energy density or high-power density energy storage materials continue to grow. Materials that have at least one dimension on the nanometer scale offer opportunities for enhanced energy storage, although there are also challenges relating to, for example, stability and manufacturing.

What are high entropy materials?

High-entropy materials, which are novel materials with more than five elements uniformly mixed at a single crystallographic site, have attracted a vast amount of attention for energy storage devices in recent years due to their abundant compositional space and enhanced properties surpassing those of conventional constituent materials.

What are the applications of energy storage technology?

These applications and the need to store energy harvested by triboelectric and piezoelectric generators (e.g., from muscle movements), as well as solar panels, wind power generators, heat sources, and moving machinery, call for considerable improvement and diversification of energy storage technology.

What chemistry can be used for large-scale energy storage?

Another Na-based chemistry of interest for large-scale energy storage is the Na-NiCl 2 (so called, ZEBRA) 55, 57 battery that typically operates at 300°C and provides 2.58 V.