Electrochemical Energy Storage toward Extreme Conditions: Driving Human Exploration beyond Current Boundaries.

Major projects reliant on electric energy support, such as manned spaceflight, ocean exploration, and polar development, will encounter extreme environmental challenges. The most representative scenarios, including deep space, deep sea, deep earth, and polar regions, will be systematically discussed in this review. The interaction of multiple environmental factors under complex working conditions leads to multifaceted failures that significantly compromise the performance of electrochemical energy storage systems (EESSs). Specifically, this review examines EESSs operating under extreme conditions, including extreme temperatures, extreme pressures, electromagnetic radiations and so on. It addresses key challenges and summarizes solutions based on a mechanistic understanding of new electrochemical reactions and strategies to enhance electrochemical performance. Additionally, it provides a comprehensive overview of experimental and simulated technology, from the microscopic physicochemical mechanisms level to whole battery chemistry, and explores potential applications for EESSs in the future. Finally, this review offers prospective analyses of the demand for EESSs in future space exploration, involving missions to the Lunar surface, Mars and asteroids. This review provides both a theoretical and technical foundation for developing high-performance battery materials in extreme environments. It contributes to advancing diverse application scenarios for high-power EESSs.

• Publication year

  2025

• Venue

  Chemical Reviews

• Publication date

  2025-05-30

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Physics, Engineering, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1021/acs.chemrev.4c00863PMID 40444929
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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