Recent advances in the interface design of solid-state electrolytes for solid-state energy storage devices
High-ionic-conductivity solid-state electrolytes (SSEs) have been extensively explored for electrochemical energy storage technologies because these materials can enhance the safety of solid-state energy storage devices (SSESDs) and increase the energy density of these devices. In this review, an overview of
Ionic liquids: environmentally sustainable materials for energy ...
Ionic liquids (ILs), often known as green designer solvents, have demonstrated immense application potential in numerous scientific and technological domains. ILs possess high boiling point and low volatility that make them suitable environmentally benign candidates for many potential applications. The more important …
Recent Advances in Multilayer‐Structure Dielectrics …
In recent years, researchers used to enhance the energy storage performance of dielectrics mainly by increasing the dielectric constant. [22, 43] As the research progressed, the bottleneck of this method was …
Crosslinked Polyethyleneimine Gel Polymer Interface to Improve …
Material degradation and side reactions obviously can lead to capacity decay [].Another major contribution however is crossover of active materials [2, 8, 9].For example, one of the most highly developed RFB technologies is the vanadium redox flow battery (VRB) [], which traditionally uses a proton-conductive membrane such as …
MXenes for Zinc-Based Electrochemical Energy Storage Devices
This review focuses on the recent development of MXene-based materials for Zn-based energy storage devices. We begin with an introduction to the three types of Zn-based energy storage devices'' structures, functions, and mechanisms to establish the requirements and challenges for MXene-based electrode materials.
Research progress on functional, structural and material design of ...
Bionic approach Material used; Light-energy bionics: SunBOT: ... Table 6 is a compilation of globally renowned bionic buildings. Table 7 presents cases, bionic principles, and materials in the architectural structures inspired by bionic plants. There are four categories in total, including bionic plant anti-icing structures, bionic plant system ...
Recent advances in the interface design of solid-state …
Several interface designs, including hybrid, interlayer, solid–liquid, quasi-solid-state gel, and in situ solidification interface, between electrodes …
5 · The synthesis of bioinspired materials involves various concepts beyond biomimicry, such as self-assembly, self-healing, biomineralization, and more. A variety of …
Mechanical Bionic and Bio-Inspired Interface Materials
The scope of this Special Issue on bioinspired materials mainly focuses on the latest research advances and frontiers of mechanical bionic technology, bio-inspired interface materials, bionic surface coatings, additive manufacturing, bionic design, and bio-inspired sensors, which have strong engineering application prospects.
Biomimetic phase change capsules with conch shell structures for ...
Furthermore, Fig. 18 presents the thermal energy storage capacity, the time for complete melting and the thermal energy storage efficiency of bionic-conch phase change capsules with different fin structures. In this study, reducing the wall thickness from 2 mm to 0.5 mm substantially increased the storage capacity by 22.87 % for capsules with …
Review: Application of Bionic-Structured Materials in Solid-State …
Solid-state lithium metal batteries (SSLMBs) have gained significant attention in energy storage research due to their high energy density and significantly improved safety. But there are still certain problems with lithium dendrite growth, interface stability, and room-temperature practicality. Nature continually inspires human …
Carbon Electrode Materials for Advanced Potassium-Ion Storage
1 Introduction. Recently, devices relying on potassium ions as charge carriers have attracted wide attention as alternative energy storage systems due to the high abundance of potassium resources (1.5 wt % in the earth''s crust) and fast ion transport kinetics of K + in electrolyte. 1 Currently, owing to the lower standard hydrogen potential …
Smart Self-Healing Capability of Asphalt Material Using Bionic ...
It has become one of the research directions of intelligent materials for self-healing asphalt pavements to use a bionic microvascular containing oily rejuvenator. The rejuvenator in a microvascular can carry out the healing of asphalt micro-cracks, thus reducing the damage to and prolonging the life of asphalt pavement. The aim …
Mechanical properties and application analysis of …
Spider silk is a kind of natural biomaterial with superior performance. Its mechanical properties and biocompatibility are incomparable with those of other natural and artificial materials. This article first summarizes the …
Leaf-vein bionic fin configurations for enhanced thermal energy storage ...
In the present study, we investigated the effect of different structures of a novel leaf vein bionic fin and various arrangements in the tube on the complete melting time of phase change materials ...
Bioinspired and Multifunctional Tribological Materials for Sliding ...
Bioinspired and Multifunctional Tribological Materials for ...
Bioinspired design of Na-ion conduction channels in covalent …
Benefiting from electrode/electrolyte interface compatibility, the Na|TPDBD-CNa-QSSE|NVP/C cell exhibits excellent long-cycle stability at a specific …
A self-charging device with bionic self-cleaning interface for energy …
The supercapacitors (SCs) with high power density, long cycle life, wide operating temperature range, and environmentally friendly materials have become the most promising energy storage part to fabricate the integrated energy …
Bionic Prostheses: The Emerging Alternative to Vascularised …
Bionic prostheses aim to recapitulate limb function by means of a human-machine interface designed to stimulate or record biological signals depending upon the user''s intention. This is crucial in the acquisition of rich sensory feedback and in the optimisation of volitional control in real-time.
Silica-confined composite form-stable phase change materials: a …
Solid–liquid phase change materials (PCMs) are a kind of important heat energy storage materials that can store/release great amounts of latent heat at a specific temperature or within a narrow temperature range and thus can be applied in a lot of fields related to heat energy storage or thermal management. However, their practical …
Leaf-vein bionic fin configurations for enhanced thermal …
• Phase change materials as energy storage unit for the sustainable built environment. • Leaf vein bionic fins to enhance phase change material charging performance. ... in Table 1. The fin ...
In situ synthesis of silica/graphite anode material with enhanced ...
The cycling stability and rate performance of anode materials should be increased to meet the demands for automotive power batteries with a long-life and fast charging capability. In this study, a silica/graphite anode material was synthesized in situ via a hydrolysis-calcination route using ethyl orthosilicate as the silicon source. The …
A bionic profiling-energy storage device based on MBD-DEM coupled simulation optimization reducing the energy …
The total energy storage refers to the sum of the energy stored by the BSPD during the deep loosening operation, which reflects the elastic energy storage capacity of the BSPD. The elastic energy storage capacity was inversely proportional to the torsional elastic coefficient of the overall deep loosening mechanism, and directly …
Numerical study on energy absorption performance of novel bionic …
Porous grid structures and honeycomb structures, as classical bionic impact-resistant sandwich structures, have the advantage of achieving controllable energy absorption by varying parameters in design [17].Honeycomb is a typical ultra-light material, and its hexagonal cell interconnecting network enhances the resistance of cell wall to …
Numerical investigation on improving the heat storage and …
One of the main challenges of thermal energy storage (TES) is developing phase change materials (PCMs) [1] with the combination of high heat storage capacity, rapid charging/discharging, good reliability as well as high strength. As a commonly used PCM, sugar alcohol has a higher melting point that can be applied to a medium …
Mechanoneural interfaces for bionic integration
Mechanoneural interfaces combine surgically modified soft tissues and artificial components to enhance peripheral neural signalling for the reconstruction of bionic limbs.
A review on polyvinylidene fluoride polymer based …
Dielectric polymer nanocomposite materials with great energy density and efficiency look promising for a variety applications. This review presents the research on Poly (vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) polymer and copolymer nanocomposites that are used in energy storage applications such as capacitors, supercapacitors, pulse power energy …
Bionic-response surface combination optimization method for …
In addition, RT82 is selected as the PCM heat storage material in this manuscript, and the copper is used as the fin material, and the specific physical parameters of the material are shown in Table 1. Download: Download high-res image (244KB) Download: Download full-size image; Fig. 2. Fin structure: (a) Horsetail stem fins; …
Microstructure and bionic engineering of triphase reaction …
Zinc-air batteries (ZABs) are potential candidates for replacing LIBs in the current electrochemical energy storage market due to their high theoretical specific energy …
Reshaping the electrolyte structure and interface chemistry for …
Simultaneously reshaping the electrolyte structure and Zn interface chemistry enabled by using 1,2-dimethoxyethane (DME) additive can weaken water activity, induce in-situ formation of a robust organic-inorganic interphase on Zn, and suppress dendritic Zn growth, thus significantly stabilizing the Zn anode in aqueous electrolytes.. …
Mechanical Bionic and Bio-Inspired Interface Materials
interface materials, bionic surface coatings, additive manufacturing, bionic design, and bio-inspired sensors, ... In this paper, methodologies for selecting particle sizes and inter-particle bond energy are proposed based on the results of the drop ...
Numerical investigation on improving the heat storage and …
A phase change material is an ideal energy storage material with huge latent heat and nearly constant phase change temperature, but there are serious problems in application such as leakage and ...
A self-charging device with bionic self-cleaning interface for energy ...
A self-charging device with bionic self-cleaning interface for energy harvesting ... Various TENGs have been developed and applied to many fields through the optimal selection of advanced materials and smart design of innovative structures, such as human motion sensing [12,13], ocean energy harvesting [14,15], environmental energy …
Bio⁃inspired Hydrogels: Synthesis, Bionic Design and ...
Methods of using cleaning energy, such as electrochemical energy storage, photocatalysis, interfacial solar evaporation and fog collection, have been considered as an environment-friendly way to solve issues above. In recent years, learning from nature has been an efficient way to acquire inspiration.
Research progress on functional, structural and material design of plant-inspired green bionic …
Since 1997, the term ''bionics'' was coined; bionics as a scientific field has been studied for decades, as evidenced by the increasing number of publications on the Web of Science. As shown in Fig. 1, we examined the interest in bionics and bionic architecture from 1997 to 2023, including journal articles, conference proceedings, and …
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A bionic profiling-energy storage device based on MBD-DEM …
A novel bionic profiling energy storage device was designed in this research to reduce the energy consumption of deep loosening operations. As the core technology of conservation tillage, deep loosening has always been difficult to promote on a large scale in the Phaeozem region of Northeast China due to its high energy consumption.