Innovation in Electrochemical Science 17 Publications in Chemical Communications!

Innovation in Electrochemical Science – 17 Publications in Chemical Communications
We are proud to celebrate a major milestone by our research team at VISTEC, led by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Montree Sawangphruk, with 17 groundbreaking papers published in Chemical Communications – one of the world’s top-tier journals in chemistry by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC).
Journal Metrics of Chemical Communications (ChemComm):
• 2-Year Impact Factor: 4.3
• CiteScore: 8.6
• H-Index: 387
• Ranking: Q1 in Chemistry – Multidisciplinary
• Founded: 1969
• Listed in: Nature Index
Over the past decade, our group has relentlessly pursued scientific breakthroughs in next-generation batteries, supercapacitors, and energy materials, contributing to both fundamental knowledge and real-world application.
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Our Latest Milestone:
1. New Materials for Lithium–Sulfur Batteries: Challenges and Future Directions (2025)
A comprehensive roadmap to overcome critical barriers in Li–S battery commercialization.
https://doi.org/10.1039/D5CC01150G
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Highlights from Our ChemComm Portfolio:
Li–S Battery Systems
2. Insight into the failure mechanism of large-scale cylindrical lithium-sulphur cells (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1039/d3cc02730a
3. Polyaniline-grafted hydrolysed polyethylene as a dual functional interlayer/separator for high-performance Li-S@C core-shell batteries (2019)
https://doi.org/10.1039/c9cc07725a
4. Insight into the effect of additives widely used in lithium-sulfur batteries (2019)
https://doi.org/10.1039/c9cc06504k
Li-ion Innovations: Ni-rich, Anode-Free & Electrolytes
5. Preconcentration of lithium salt in nanoporous alumina on Cu foil as a concentrated lithium semi-solid layer for anode-free Li-metal batteries (2024)
https://doi.org/10.1039/d4cc03946g
6. Free carbonate-based molecules in the electrolyte leading to severe safety concerns of Ni-rich Li-ion batteries (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1039/d1cc06694c
7. Microcracking of Ni-rich layered oxide does not occur at single crystal primary particles even abused at 4.7 V (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1039/d2cc03977j
8. Effect of fluoroethylene carbonate on the transport property of electrolytes towards Ni-rich Li-ion batteries with high safety (2021)
https://doi.org/10.1039/d1cc02120f
Supercapacitors & Hybrid Devices
9. Impact of cationic molecular length of ionic liquid electrolytes on cell performance of 18650 supercapacitors (2021)
https://doi.org/10.1039/d1cc05773a
10. Effect of intercalated alkali ions in layered manganese oxide nanosheets as neutral electrochemical capacitors (2019)
https://doi.org/10.1039/c8cc08198k
11. A proton-hopping charge storage mechanism of ionic one-dimensional coordination polymers for high-performance supercapacitors (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1039/c7cc07490e
12. A new concept of charging supercapacitors based on the photovoltaic effect (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1039/C6CC08131B
13. Turning conductive carbon nanospheres into nanosheets for high-performance supercapacitors of MnO₂ nanorods (2016)
https://doi.org/10.1039/c5cc09648k
Photoactive Metal–Air Batteries
14. Photoactive Zn-air batteries using spinel-type cobalt oxide as a bifunctional photocatalyst at the air cathode (2019)
https://doi.org/10.1039/c9cc01876j
Advanced Energy Materials
15. A 3D free-standing lithiophilic silver nanowire aerogel for lithium metal batteries without lithium dendrites and volume expansion: In operando X-ray diffraction (2019)
https://doi.org/10.1039/c9cc01528k
16. Rational design and synthesis of SiC/TiC@SiOx/TiO₂ porous core-shell nanostructure with excellent Li-ion storage performance (2018)
https://doi.org/10.1039/c8cc07673a
17. Insight into the effect of intercalated alkaline cations of layered manganese oxides on the oxygen reduction reaction and oxygen evolution reaction (2018)
https://doi.org/10.1039/c8cc03775b
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These contributions reflect our unwavering mission: to drive sustainable and safe energy storage forward through deep scientific insights and bold material innovation.
We sincerely thank our dedicated students, collaborators, and institutional supporters. Let’s continue pushing the frontiers of electrochemical science—together.
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