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Nanomaterials 2021, 11, 810 21 of 29 Several others anodic materials have been recently proposed and require further validation within the scientific community. Just to mention some of them, indium and lead were studied. After some experiments, indium has been judged inadequate due to high costs and low rate capability [186]; furthermore, an electrochemically driven amorphization of crystalline MgIn takes place when In is combined with Pb in solid solution [187]. Lead was excluded, even before considering the associated environmental issues and toxicity, because of the poor Coulombic efficiency [188]. The path ahead towards stable, efficient and cheap anodes for MIBs is still long, but the overall scenario towards large-scale energy systems able to store electricity from solar energy [189–192] is becoming feasible. 5. Conclusions Despite the impressive properties shown by magnesium metal, its utilization as anode material has been shown to be unpractical mainly because of its very high sensitivity to surface reactions, which makes the choice of the electrolyte extremely difficult. It is a matter of fact that, compared to the magnesium metal anode, all the ion insertion anodes cannot compete in terms of specific capacity; however, because of the problems caused by magnesium metal, their utilization seems to be necessary to conceive a com- mercial device. The main benefit brought by ion insertion anodes is the possibility to use conventional and well-known electrolytes that support reversible magnesium deposition. The cathode-side should also be taken into account, as it must be capable to reversibly work with the electrolyte solution. Alternative anodes, allowing the utilization of a wider range of suitable electrolytes, ensure a better compatibility with cathodes. Moreover, as cathodes often represent the limiting factor in batteries, moving from magnesium metal anode to alternative anodic materials, with the associated loss of anodic specific capacity, may still result advantageous in terms of energy density of the whole device if oxide cathodes are used. Some materials, such as bismuth and tin, exhibited good properties like low reduction potentials and relatively high theoretical specific capacities, but currently they are far from being used in practical systems because of their poor electrochemical stability during prolonged cycling. Thus, dual-phase alloy anodes have been proposed by several groups as a possible solution and, in many cases, they showed superior properties if compared with both bismuth and tin separately, mainly thanks to better kinetics and the high reversibility that the double phase provides. Although the investigated dual-phase bismuth–tin alloys cannot be considered as a definitive solution, they anyway indicate an important field of research that may lead to the development of an advanced electrode material in the future. Future perspectives in this field could pass through two materials classes that are leading to noteworthy results in the energy storage field. First, functionalized MX- enes/graphene heterostructures could exhibit a great potential for magnesium ions inter- calation, keeping at the same time a low interlayer expansion (and an overall reduction of geometric constraint). A second idea could be that of designing carbon-based anodes, following some strategies already developed for aqueous batteries; for example, carbon molecular sieve constructed by filling a carbon source into a sacrificial template could make use of the mesoporous tunnels of the template as a frame to host more magnesium ions. Other important research fields to promote the development of MIBs (also targeting higher TRL levels) concern the preparation of chlorides-free electrolyte solutions with wide electrochemical windows, where magnesium can behave reversibly, and the elaboration of new cathodes, less sensitive to the composition of the electrolyte solutions. There is still much work to do towards the utilization of a clean and more efficient battery in order to support the ongoing worldwide energy transition.PDF Image | Overview on Anodes for Magnesium Batteries
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