Center for Advanced Functional Nanorobots, Department of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Technicka 5, 166 28 Prague 6, Czech Republic.
Future Energy and Innovation Laboratory, Central European Institute of Technology, Brno University of Technology, Purkyňova 656/123, Brno CZ-616 00, Czech Republic.
Chem Rev. 2020 Mar 11;120(5):2783-2810. doi: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.9b00783. Epub 2020 Feb 12.
Additive manufacturing (also known as three-dimensional (3D) printing) is being extensively utilized in many areas of electrochemistry to produce electrodes and devices, as this technique allows for fast prototyping and is relatively low cost. Furthermore, there is a variety of 3D-printing technologies available, which include fused deposition modeling (FDM), inkjet printing, select laser melting (SLM), and stereolithography (SLA), making additive manufacturing a highly desirable technique for electrochemical purposes. In particular, over the last number of years, a significant amount of research into using 3D printing to create electrodes/devices for electrochemical energy conversion and storage has emerged. Strides have been made in this area; however, there are still a number of challenges and drawbacks that need to be overcome in order to 3D print active and stable electrodes/devices for electrochemical energy conversion and storage to rival that of the state-of-the-art. In this Review, we will give an overview of the reasoning behind using 3D printing for these electrochemical applications. We will then discuss how the electrochemical performance of the electrodes/devices are affected by the various 3D-printing technologies and by manipulating the 3D-printed electrodes by post modification techniques. Finally, we will give our insights into the future perspectives of this exciting field based on our discussion through this Review.
增材制造(也称为三维(3D)打印)在电化学的许多领域中被广泛用于制造电极和器件,因为这种技术允许快速原型制作,并且相对成本较低。此外,有多种 3D 打印技术可供选择,包括熔融沉积建模(FDM)、喷墨打印、选择性激光熔化(SLM)和立体光刻(SLA),使得增材制造成为电化学领域非常理想的技术。特别是在过去的几年中,大量的研究致力于使用 3D 打印技术来制造用于电化学能量转换和存储的电极/器件。在这方面已经取得了一些进展;然而,为了 3D 打印出用于电化学能量转换和存储的活性和稳定的电极/器件,以与最先进的技术相媲美,仍有许多挑战和缺点需要克服。在这篇综述中,我们将概述使用 3D 打印技术用于这些电化学应用的基本原理。然后,我们将讨论各种 3D 打印技术如何影响电极/器件的电化学性能,以及如何通过后修饰技术对 3D 打印电极进行处理。最后,我们将根据通过本综述的讨论,对这一令人兴奋的领域的未来前景提出我们的见解。