The ideal construction process of digital microscale electrochemical energy storage devices [Image: Shi Xiaoyu and Hou Xiaocheng]

With the development of the Internet of Things and information technology, it can be foreseen that we will enter a digital, intelligent and fully connected world.

In the future, we may monitor our health status through wearable devices, cure diseases with the aid of advanced implanted microelectronics, and obtain real-time information about the surrounding environment by means of multi-node sensors, all of which require a large number of microscale electronic terminals as support.

Recently, a research team led by Professor Wu Zhongshuai from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) clarified the importance of digital microscale electrochemical energy storage devices, a component of microscale electronic systems.

This work was published as a focus review in ACS Energy Letters on December 15.

The researchers indicated that a fully connected and intelligent world requires different electronic devices with highly designable and customizable properties in order to achieve seamless integration and assimilation into various situations. These requirements are highly dependent on the applicability of microscale electrochemical energy storage devices with innovative all-around digitalization.

They summarized the current status and latest progress of digital microscale electrochemical energy storage devices from key materials, device geometries, structural engineering, fabrication processes, functional characteristics and system integration, and discussed respective design principles and promising development directions.

For more information, please contact:

Dr. & Professor Wu Zhongshuai

E-mail: wuzs@dicp.ac.cn

Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP),

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Source: Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP),

Chinese Academy of Sciences