Advances in Structure and Property Optimizations of Battery Electrode Materials

Rechargeable batteries undoubtedly represent one of the best candidates for chemical energy storage, where the intrinsic structures of electrode materials play a crucial role in understanding battery chemistry and improving battery performance. This review emphasizes the advances in structure and property optimizations of battery electrode materials for high-efficiency energy storage. The underlying battery reaction mechanisms of insertion-, conversion-, and alloying-type materials are first discussed toward rational battery designs. We then give a summary of the advanced optimization strategies and provide in-depth analyses of structure-property relationships for some significant research breakthroughs in batteries. Finally, we provide a brief overview of the recent state-of-the-art techniques as powerful tools to explore and predict the strategies of structure optimization. This review on the deep understanding of structure-property correlations will bring new insight into the design of ideal battery materials and open up new opportunities for battery chemistry.