Opportunities of Flexible and Portable Electrochemical Devices for Energy Storage: Expanding the Spotlight onto Semi-solid/Solid Electrolytes

The ever-increasing demand for flexible and portable electronics has stimulated research and development in building advanced electrochemical energy devices which are lightweight, ultrathin, small in size, bendable, foldable, knittable, wearable, and/or stretchable. In such flexible and portable devices, semi-solid/solid electrolytes besides anodes and cathodes are the necessary components determining the energy/power performances. By serving as the ion transport channels, such semi-solid/solid electrolytes may be beneficial to resolving the issues of leakage, electrode corrosion, and metal electrode dendrite growth. In this paper, the fundamentals of semi-solid/solid electrolytes (e.g., chemical composition,…

• NN
  National Natural Science Foundation of China

  Awards: 22172117, U1601216, 51722403, 52125404
• MO
  Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China
• NS
  Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province

  Award: U1601216
• NS
  Natural Science Foundation of Tianjin City

  Award: 18JCJQJC46500