Liquid-phase exfoliated 2D materials for lithium-ion battery anode: current status and future direction

Abstract With the increasing need for energy and the swift advancement of the electric vehicle industry, the field of energy storage has garnered significant attention. Especially, lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) serve as crucial energy storage devices and have received particular attention. As an emerging class of electrode materials, two-dimensional (2D) materials have become promising candidates for solving the challenges of LIBs owing to their high theoretical capacity, high specific surface area, high ionic conductivity, and long cycle life. The research progress on 2D materials, especially those prepared through liquid-phase exfoliation (LPE), has shown great potential in improving the performance of LIBs. LPE is a powerful and efficient method for preparing 2D materials with various sizes and properties, which is suitable for practical applications. Given these, this paper underscores the great potential of 2D materials prepared via LPE as anode materials for LIBs. Meanwhile, the existence of challenges that need to be overcome in relation to the scalability of the LPE method and the use of 2D materials in practical applications are also proposed.