Borophene could be an extraordinary sodium anode material for sodium-based batteries
Friday, June 24, 2016 - 05:21
in Physics & Chemistry
Sodium-based batteries are a prospective alternative to lithium-based batteries due to the abundance and low price of sodium. However, finding a suitable anode material has been a longstanding hurdle to the commercialization of sodium-based batteries. As the size of the sodium atom is much larger than lithium, many anode materials widely used in lithium-based batteries show poor performance in sodium-based batteries, most of which suffer from low intercalation utility, slow kinetics and sever volume expansion.