Prospects of negative electrode materials for new energy batteries

This review summarizes and provides an assessment of different classes of organic compounds with potential applications as negative electrode materials for metal-ion and molecular-ion batteries.

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May 01, 2026

Research progress on carbon materials as negative electrodes in

Graphite and related carbonaceous materials can reversibly intercalate metal atoms to store electrochemical energy in batteries. 29, 64, 99-101 Graphite, the main negative electrode material for LIBs, naturally is considered to be the most suitable negative-electrode material for SIBs and PIBs, but it is significantly different in graphite negative-electrode materials between SIBs and

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Jun 23, 2026

Recent Developments and Future Prospects of

As an emerging energy storage technology, PIHCs offer a great opportunity to maximize energy and power density, and the key to the implementation relies on the selection and optimization of electrode materials.

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Jul 22, 2025

Application of nanomaterials in new energy batteries

and negative materials of new energy batteries, and forecasts the future development direction of this industry. This paper is expected to provide ideas for the research of nanomaterials and new

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Feb 05, 2026

Polymer Electrode Materials for Lithium-Ion Batteries

Polymer electrode materials (PEMs) have become a hot research topic for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) owing to their high energy density, tunable structure, and flexibility. They are regarded as a category of promising alternatives to conventional inorganic materials because of their abundant and green resources. Currently, conducting polymers, carbonyl

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Sep 07, 2025

Comprehensive insights and perspectives into the recent

Therefore, similar to Li-ion battery, based on the working principle of “rocking-chair” battery (take a K-ion battery as an example: when the battery is charged, K + is generated on the positive electrode and embedded into the negative electrode through the electrolyte, at the same time, the remaining electrons reach the negative electrode from the external circuit.

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Dec 07, 2025

Hybrid energy storage devices: Advanced electrode materials and

An apparent solution is to manufacture a new kind of hybrid energy storage device (HESD) by taking the advantages of both battery-type and capacitor-type electrode materials , , , which has both high energy density and power density compared with existing energy storage devices (Fig. 1). Thus, HESD is considered as one of the most

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Apr 25, 2026

Negative electrode materials for high-energy density Li

In the search for high-energy density Li-ion batteries, there are two battery components that must be optimized: cathode and anode. Currently available cathode materials for Li-ion batteries, such as LiNi 1/3 Mn 1/3 Co 1/3 O 2 (NMC) or LiNi 0.8 Co 0.8 Al 0.05 O 2 (NCA) can provide practical specific capacity values (C sp) of 170–200 mAh g −1, which produces

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Nov 03, 2025

Recent findings and prospects in the field of pure

Recent findings and prospects in the field of pure metals as negative electrodes for Li-ion batteries . Mathieu Morcrette. 2007, Journal of Materials Chemistry. visibility description. 14 pages. link. 1 file. In the race for better Li-ion

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Oct 18, 2025

Perspectives on the Redox Chemistry of Organic

Organic electrode materials have attracted much attention for lithium batteries because of their high capacity, flexible designability, and environmental friendliness. Understanding the redox chemistry of organic

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Sep 16, 2025

Recent progress on advanced high energy electrode materials for

Over the past few decades, lithium-ion batteries have become popular for powering portable electronic devices and electric vehicles (EVs). However, as demand for safer technologies, higher energy densities, and lower costs increases, researchers are exploring alternatives to lithium-ion batteries (Diouf and Pode, 2015; Albertus et al., 2017; Wu and Yu,

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Jun 19, 2026

Emerging high-entropy material electrodes for metal-ion batteries

Featuring unique structural characteristics and excellent mechanical/chemical properties, HEMs (especially high-entropy alloys and oxides) emerge as promising electrode materials for electrochemical energy storage. We herein present a critical review to update the recent progress in developing new HEMs electrodes for various metal-ion batteries

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Dec 18, 2025

Review—Hard Carbon Negative Electrode Materials for Sodium-Ion Batteries

A first review of hard carbon materials as negative electrodes for sodium ion batteries is presented, covering not only the electrochemical performance but also the synthetic methods and

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Sep 20, 2025

Research progress on carbon materials as negative electrodes in

Carbon materials represent one of the most promising candidates for negative electrode materials of sodium-ion and potassium-ion batteries (SIBs and PIBs). This review focuses on the research progres...

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Jul 06, 2025

Aluminum foil negative electrodes with multiphase

Metal negative electrodes that alloy with lithium have high theoretical charge storage capacity and are ideal candidates for developing high-energy rechargeable batteries.

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Jan 12, 2026

The quest for negative electrode materials for Supercapacitors:

New 2D materials based on MXenes and metal–organic frameworks are suggested as alternatives to carbon/graphene. • One-decade progress of negative electrodes for SCs is discussed and analyzed with greater than 300 references. Abstract. With increasing clean energy demands and the rapid progress of flexible electronics, research on high–performance

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Nov 21, 2025

Exploring the Research Progress and Application Prospects of

With the application of nanotechnology, researchers have developed a variety of new nanomaterials for the cathode of lithium-ion batteries. These materials include manganese

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Jul 24, 2025

Recent findings and prospects in the field of pure metals as negative

In the race for better Li-ion batteries, research on anode materials is very intensive as there is a strong desire to find alternatives to carbonaceous negative electrodes. A large part of these

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Apr 19, 2026

A new generation of energy storage electrode materials constructed from

Such carbon materials, as novel negative electrodes (EDLC-type) for hybrid supercapacitors, have outstanding advantages in terms of energy density, and can also overcome the common shortcomings of carbon negative electrodes, such as self-discharge and mismatch with different positive electrode (pseudocapacitor-type or battery-type) materials.

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Oct 25, 2025

Recent findings and prospects in the field of pure

In the race for better Li-ion batteries, research on anode materials is very intensive as there is a strong desire to find alternatives to carbonaceous negative electrodes. A large part of...

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Nov 29, 2025

Inorganic materials for the negative electrode of lithium-ion

The development of advanced rechargeable batteries for efficient energy storage finds one of its keys in the lithium-ion concept. The optimization of the Li-ion

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May 25, 2026

Prospects of organic electrode materials for practical lithium batteries

This Review systematically analyses the prospects of organic electrode materials for practical Li batteries by discussing the intrinsic properties of organic electrode

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Jul 09, 2025

Challenges and Future Prospects of the MXene-Based Materials for Energy

Abstract: In the past decade, MXenes, a new class of advanced functional 2D nanomaterials, have emerged among numerous types of electrode materials for electrochemical energy storage devices. MXene and their composites have opened up an interesting new opportunity in

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Mar 11, 2026

Recent Advances and Prospects of FeOOH-Based

Supercapacitors (SCs) offer a potential replacement for traditional lithium-based batteries in energy-storage devices thanks to the increased power density and stable charge–discharge cycles, as well as negligible

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Jul 09, 2025

Negative electrode materials for high-energy density Li

Current research appears to focus on negative electrodes for high-energy systems that will be discussed in this review with a particular focus on C, Si, and P. This new

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Jul 26, 2025

The quest for negative electrode materials for Supercapacitors:

2D materials have been studied since 2004, after the discovery of graphene, and the number of research papers based on the 2D materials for the negative electrode of SCs published per year from 2011 to 2022 is presented in Fig. 4. as per reported by the Web of Science with the keywords “2D negative electrode for supercapacitors” and “2D anode for

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Nov 27, 2025

Research progress and future prospects electrode materials for

Research progress and future prospects of electrode materials for supercapacitors Kaijia Xi* International College, Zhengzhou university, 450001 Zhengzhou, China Abstract. Supercapacitors are a highly promising energy storage solution, characterized by high charge and discharge rates, high energy density, and high power density. It stores energy through a variety of storage

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Sep 09, 2025

Advanced polyanionic electrode materials for potassium-ion batteries

The electrode material is the main component for the performance of the batteries . Fig. 1 c summarizes the various electrode materials and their characteristics. Instead of potassium metal, which has a low safety rating, carbon materials or alloys were commonly utilized for negative electrodes .Carbon materials are widely used in the energy storage field due to

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Feb 23, 2026

Advanced Electrode Materials in Lithium Batteries: Retrospect and Prospect

This review is aimed at providing a full scenario of advanced electrode materials in high-energy-density Li batteries. The key progress of practical electrode materials in the LIBs in the past 50

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Sep 04, 2025

Fast‐Charging Solid‐State Li Batteries: Materials, Strategies, and

4 Electrodes for Fast-Charging Solid-State Batteries. Optimizing electrode materials plays a critical role in addressing fast-charging challenges. Commercial LIBs commonly use graphite anodes, which face fast-charging limitations due to slow intercalation, increased electrode polarization, and Li plating reaction. These issues can lead to capacity fade and safety

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Feb 06, 2026

Negative electrodes for Li-ion batteries

The active materials in the electrodes of commercial Li-ion batteries are usually graphitized carbons in the negative electrode and LiCoO 2 in the positive electrode. The electrolyte contains LiPF 6 and solvents that consist of mixtures of cyclic and linear carbonates. Electrochemical intercalation is difficult with graphitized carbon in LiClO 4 /propylene carbonate

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Jan 30, 2026

Advanced Electrode Materials in Lithium Batteries: Retrospect

Compared with current intercalation electrode materials, conversion-type materials with high specific capacity are promising for future battery technology [10, 14].The rational matching of cathode and anode materials can potentially satisfy the present and future demands of high energy and power density (Figure 1(c)) [15, 16].For instance, the battery systems with Li metal

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May 14, 2026

Optimizing lithium-ion battery electrode manufacturing: Advances

Electrode microstructure will further affect the life and safety of lithium-ion batteries, and the composition ratio of electrode materials will directly affect the life of electrode materials.To be specific, Alexis Rucci evaluated the effects of the spatial distribution and composition ratio of carbon-binder domain (CBD) and active material particle (AM) on the

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May 25, 2026

Towards New Negative Electrode Materials for Li-Ion Batteries

The performance of LiNiN as electrode material in lithium batteries was successfully tested. Stable capacities of 142 mA·h/g, 237 mA·h/g, and 341 mA·h/g are obtained when the compound is cycled between 0 and 1.3 V, 1.45 V, and 1.65 V, respectively. These results confirm that it is a

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Jun 30, 2026

Application of nanomaterials in new energy batteries

In this paper, the use of nanostructured anode materials for rechargeable lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) is reviewed. Nanostructured materials such as nano-carbons, alloys, metal oxides, and metal

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Jun 30, 2026

Progress and prospects of graphene-based materials in lithium batteries

Battery performances are related to the intrinsic properties of the electrode materials, especially for cathode materials, which currently limit the energy density [26, 27]. Graphene-based materials have become a hot topic since they substantially enhance the electrochemical performance of cathodes in LIBs and lithium sulfur (Li–S) batteries [ 28, 29 ].

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Dec 19, 2025

Recent progress and prospects of NASICON framework electrodes

The global energy storage market for batteries grew from $93.7 billion in 2022 to $103.9 billion in 2023, a negative electrode (anode), a separator, and an organic liquid electrolyte. It is an electrochemical device that stores energy in the form of chemical energy. During the discharge process (shown in Fig. 3), the Na + ions liberated in the oxidation

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Jan 05, 2026

Nano-sized transition-metal oxides as negative

Here we report that electrodes made of nanoparticles of transition-metal oxides (MO, where M is Co, Ni, Cu or Fe) demonstrate electrochemical capacities of 700 mA h g -1, with 100% capacity...

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Nov 22, 2025

Organic Electrode Materials for Non-aqueous K-Ion Batteries

Compared with anode materials that usually have high capacities (> 250 mA·h/g) [48,49,50], the relatively low capacity of cathode materials (generally < 150 mA·h/g) restricts the energy density of K-ion full batteries [51,52,53] this case, organic cathode materials with high capacity and potential are essential for KIBs and have become an important topic in the current research.

6 Frequently Asked Questions about “Prospects of negative electrode materials for new energy batteries”

What are the limitations of a negative electrode?

The limitations in potential for the electroactive material of the negative electrode are less important than in the past thanks to the advent of 5 V electrode materials for the cathode in lithium-cell batteries. However, to maintain cell voltage, a deep study of new electrolyte–solvent combinations is required.

Can nibs be used as negative electrodes?

In the case of both LIBs and NIBs, there is still room for enhancing the energy density and rate performance of these batteries. So, the research of new materials is crucial. In order to achieve this in LIBs, high theoretical specific capacity materials, such as Si or P can be suitable candidates for negative electrodes.

Are metal negative electrodes reversible in lithium ion batteries?

Metal negative electrodes that alloy with lithium have high theoretical charge storage capacity and are ideal candidates for developing high-energy rechargeable batteries. However, such electrode materials show limited reversibility in Li-ion batteries with standard non-aqueous liquid electrolyte solutions.

Are metal negative electrodes suitable for high energy rechargeable batteries?

Nature Communications 14, Article number: 3975 (2023) Cite this article Metal negative electrodes that alloy with lithium have high theoretical charge storage capacity and are ideal candidates for developing high-energy rechargeable batteries.

Why does a negative electrode have a poor cycling performance?

The origins of such a poor cycling performance are diverse. Mainly, the high solubility in aqueous electrolytes of the ZnO produced during cell discharge in the negative electrode favors a poor reproducibility of the electrode surface exposed to the electrolyte with risk of formation of zinc dendrites during charge.

Why should a negative electrode be mixed with graphite?

Mainly, the high solubility in aqueous electrolytes of the ZnO produced during cell discharge in the negative electrode favors a poor reproducibility of the electrode surface exposed to the electrolyte with risk of formation of zinc dendrites during charge. In order to avoid this problem, mixing with graphite has favorable effects.

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