Recent advances in metal nitrides as high-performance electrode materials for energy storage devices

Abstract

This review highlights the progress and development of metal nitrides as electrode materials for energy storage devices.

All Metal Nitrides Solid‐State Asymmetric Supercapacitors

“…Among all the reported metal nitrides in energy storage, TiN and Fe 2 N received particular attention due to their high capacitance (Fe 2 N as lithium ion battery anode: ≈900 mAh g −1 ; TiN as supercapacitor cathode: ≈150 F g −1 ) and electrical conductivity. [ 15,16 ] Various types of TiN nanostructures have been employed as supercapacitive electrode such as nanoparticle, [ 13 ] nanotube, [17][18][19] mesoporous microsphere, [ 20 ] and nanosheets. [ 21 ] However, TiN was found to be easily oxidized in aqueous solutions …”

Improvement of TiN nanoparticles EPD inducing steric stabilization in non-aqueous suspensions

“…Metal carbides and nitrides present good resistance against corrosion, and very high cohesive strength and hardness, associated with their extremely high melting points. These properties associated with their chemical characteristics make them an alternative to noble metals in catalysis [1,2], and to metal oxides under harsh conditions [3,4]. Among non-oxide ceramics, titanium carbides (TiC) and titanium nitrides (TiN) have been specially considered a promise hard material with excellent properties such as high thermal and electrical conductivity and good wear resistance, so it has been regularly deposited on bulk iron based materials to improve the surface features.…”

Suitable Conditions for the Use of Vanadium Nitride as an Electrode for Electrochemical Capacitor

“…Accordingly, several research groups considered materials such as MXenes 29,30 and transition metal nitrides. [31][32][33][34][35][36][37] In the latter class of compounds, molybdenum nitride was firstly investigated 32,33,35,38,39 and in the past decade a great deal of attention has focused on other nitrides with an intensive focus on vanadium nitride 37,[40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58] as a consequence of the impressive capacitance of 1340 F.g −1 reported for nanosized VN particles in 1 M KOH. 58 Indeed, VN is an interesting electrode material due to this high reported specific capacitance coupled with its close to metallic electronic conductivity (1.18 S.m −1 ), 59 high density (6.13 g.cm −3 ) and high melting point (2619 K).…”