Energy Storage Science and Technology ›› 2025, Vol. 14 ›› Issue (9): 3229-3248.doi: 10.19799/j.cnki.2095-4239.2025.0758

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Reviews of selected 100 recent papers for lithium batteries (June 1, 2025 to July 31, 2025)

Xinxin ZHANG1(), Guanjun CEN1, Ronghan QIAO1, Junfeng HAO1, Qiangfu SUN1, Bowen ZHENG1, Yuhao GU1, Mengyu TIAN2, Zhou JIN2, Yuanjie ZHAN2, Yong YAN2, Liubin BEN1,2, Hailong YU1, Yanyan LIU1, Hong ZHOU3, Xueji HUANG1,2()   

  1. 1.Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
    2.Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, Dongguan 523890, Guangdong, China
    3.National Science Library (Wuhan), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, Hubei, China
  • Received:2025-08-22 Online:2025-09-28 Published:2025-09-05
  • Contact: Xueji HUANG E-mail:zhangxinxin223@mails.ucas.ac.cn;xjhuang@iphy.ac.cn

Abstract:

This bimonthly review paper highlights a comprehensive overview of the latest research on lithium batteries. A total of 7666 online papers from June 1, 2025, to July 31, 2025, were examined through the Web of Science database. Firstly, the BERTopic topic model was used to analyze the abstract text and the research topic map of lithium battery papers was drawn. 100 papers were selected for highlighting in this review. The selected studies cover various aspects of lithium batteries.Cathode materials including Ni-rich layered oxides and other novel materials are improved by doping, surface coating, and microstructural modifications. The cycling performances of Si-based anode are enhanced by structural design. Great efforts have been devoted to the interfacial and bulk structure design of lithium metal anode. Studies on solid-state electrolytes focus on the structure design and performances of polymer, oxide, sulfide, and halide electrolytes, as well as their composite forms. In contrast, liquid electrolytes are improved through optimal solvent and lithium salt design for different battery applications and incorporating novel functional additives. For solid-state batteries, the surface coating and synthesis methods of cathodes and the optimization of composite cathodes, interface construction of lithium metal anode, as well as the synthesis of other anode types are widely investigated. In addition, lithium-sulfur and lithium-oxygen batteries have also garnered significant attention. There are also many papers on the ion transport and degradation mechanisms in electrodes, lithium deposition morphology and lithium diffusion pathways in electrolytes, the analysis of thermal runaway of full batteries, the theoretical simulation of void formation and dendrite growth mechanisms at solid electrolyte/lithium interfaces, as well as the application of high-throughput computations and big-data modeling in lithium batteries.

Key words: lithium batteries, cathode material, anode material, electrolyte, battery technology

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