TABLE 1. A summary of external field–assisted batteries and their key roles in performance improvement. Abbreviation: SAW, surface acoustic wave. By incorporating semiconductor materials to convert solar energy to electricity, the electrochemical performance of the battery has been significantly improved.
The introduction of external fields has proven to be a powerful strategy to enhance battery performance, which can act as an additional impetus to drive electrochemical reaction processes, such as ORR/OER process and Li/Zn metal deposition, leading to significant enhancement in cycle stability and energy efficiency.
Experimentally, superabsorption in a Dicke-style quantum battery has already been reported 24, as has a detailed investigation of collective charging in a variety of spin-based systems 25.
The magnetic field can lead to various positive effects on batteries, such as inhibiting dendrite formation in metal-based batteries by the MHD effect, mitigating the shuttle effect of polysulfide in the sulfur system, and guiding the bubble motion in air batteries.
A battery is a device that stores energy in chemical form and can convert it into electric energy through electrochemical reactions.
The linear battery is governed by a single exceptional point which splits the response of the battery into two regimes, one of which induces a good amount of useful work. Quadratic driving leads to a squeezed quantum battery, which generates plentiful useful work near to critical points associated with dissipative phase transitions.