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Amorphous vanadium oxides for electrochemical energy storage

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Vanadium oxides have attracted extensive interest as electrode materials for many electrochemical energy storage devices owing to the features of abundant reserves, low cost, and variable valence. Based on the in-depth understanding of the energy storage mechanisms and reasonable design strategies, the performances of vanadium oxides as electrodes for batteries have been significantly optimized. Compared to crystalline vanadium oxides, amorphous vanadium oxides (AVOs) show many unique properties, including large specific surface area, excellent electrochemical stability, lots of defects and active sites, fast ion kinetics, and high elasticity. This review gives a comprehensive overview of the recent progress on AVOs for different energy storage systems, such as alkali metal ion batteries, multivalent ion batteries, and supercapacitors with a special focus on the preparation strategies. The basic mechanisms for energy storage performance improvements of AVOs as compared to their crystalline counterparts are also introduced. Finally, challenges faced by AVOs are discussed and future development prospects are also proposed. This review aims to provide a comprehensive knowledge of AVOs and is expected to promote the development of high-performance electrodes for batteries.

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This work was jointly supported by the Project of State Key Laboratory of Organic Electronics and Information Displays, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (Nos. GZR2022010017 and GDX2022010010), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 52102265 and 91963119), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2020M681681), Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province of China (No. BK20210604), and Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications Start-up Fund (Nos. NY220069 and NY220085).

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He, Q., Chen, Z., Niu, X. et al. Amorphous vanadium oxides for electrochemical energy storage. Nano Res. 16, 9195–9213 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-023-5657-3

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