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High-capacity sodium (Na) anodes suffer from dendrite growth due to the high reactivity, which can be overcome through inducing a stable NaF-rich solid electrolyte interphase (SEI). Herein, we propose an additive strategy for realizing the anion-enriched structure of Na solvation to obtain a NaF-rich SEI. The electron-withdrawing acetyl group in 4-acetylpyridine (4-APD) increases the coordination number of PF in the Na solvation sheath to facilitate PF to decompose into NaF. Thus, the NaF-rich SEI with high mechanical stability and interfacial energy is formed to repress the growth of Na dendrites. With the 4-APD-contained electrolyte, the symmetric Na||Na cells show excellent cycling performance over 360 h at 1.0 mA cm . Meanwhile, excellent stability is also achieved for Na||Na V (PO ) O F full cells with high Coulombic efficiency (97 %) and capacity retention (91 %) after 200 cycles.
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September 2025
Shanghai Key Laboratory for R&D and Application of Metallic Functional Materials, Institute of New Energy for Vehicles, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, 201804, China.
Significant efforts have been devoted to optimizing the morphology and synthesizing composite materials to activate SnO for sodium-ion batteries. However, challenges arising from its intrinsic crystal structure remain insufficiently addressed. This study aims to introduce both oxygen vacancies and fluorine ions into the SnO lattice, yielding a modified compound with a chemical composition of SnO£F.
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August 2025
School of Chemical Engineering and Light Industry, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, 510006, P.R. China.
NaZrSiPO (NZSP) has stimulated considerable attention due to its remarkable ionic conductivity and exceptional chemical/electrochemical stability. However, an unstable electrolyte/electrode interface and large interface resistance severely restricted its practical application. To settle this issue, an interface-targeting integrated sandwich-like NZSP composite electrolyte was constructed by designing an artificial interface layer on both the anode and cathode sides.
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August 2025
College of Materials Science and Engineering, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, 350108, P. R. China.
Constructing the continuously-distributed and crystalline-NaF-rich solid electrolyte interface (CC-NaF-SEI) is expected to greatly promote the sodium storage performance of hard carbon (HC) anodes. However, such an impressive concept remains extremely intractable to achieve and lacks an efficiently cost-less strategy. Herein, the application of the commercially available LA133 binder is pioneered to engineer such a CC-NaF-SEI.
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July 2025
College of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310014, China.
Sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) are promising for large-scale energy storage due to their high cost-effectiveness and safety. Alloy anodes exhibit significantly higher specific capacities compared to those of carbonaceous anode materials, holding great promise for enhancing the energy density of SIBs. However, their practical application is severely hindered by substantial volume expansion, sluggish reaction kinetics, and continuous fracture reformation of the solid-electrolyte interphase (SEI).
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July 2025
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China.
Uncontrolled sodium-ion (Na) transport, fragile solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) layers, in and sluggish Na desolvation using conventional separators drive dendrite growth, posing critical challenges to the development of sodium metal batteries (SMBs). Porous materials with tunable Na transport pathways offer promise; however, simultaneously enhancing Na kinetics, promoting NaF-rich SEI formation, and lowering desolvation energy barriers remains a critical challenge. Herein, a trifunctional halogenated covalent organic framework (COF) integrated into a polypropylene (PP) separator (COF-F@PP) is designed to address these issues.
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