Kazuhide Ueno

TL;DR: Various application of ILs are reviewed by focusing on their use as electrolyte materials for Li/Na ion batteries, Li-sulfur batteries,Li-oxygen batteries, and nonhumidifiedfuel cells and as carbon precursors for electrode catalysts of fuel cells and electrode materials for batteries and supercapacitors.

TL;DR: An overview of recent developments in electrolytes for Li-S batteries is provided in this paper with a focus on the chemistry of polysulfides in different electrolyte media and its relevance to battery performance.

TL;DR: The methodologies used to assess the ionic nature in ILs, their dependence on ionic structure, polarity scales, and physicochemical properties is reviewed and the ionicity of certain ILs is predicted from their physic biochemical properties.

TL;DR: In this paper, simple solvate ionic liquids, glyme-Li salt molten complexes, are presented as excellent electrolyte candidates because they greatly suppress the dissolution of lithium polysulfides, which leads to the stable operation of Li-S battery over more than 400 cycles with discharge capacities higher than 700 mAh g-sulfur−1 and with coulombic efficiencies higher than 98% throughout the cycles.

TL;DR: In this article, the properties of equimolar mixtures of glymes (triglyme) and nine different lithium salts (LiX) were investigated and compared with the reported data on common aprotic ionic liquids.