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Metastable cation-disordered compounds have greatly expanded the synthesizable compositions of solid-state materials and drawn sharp attention among battery electrochemists. While such a strategy has been very successful in a few well-known…
Using an ab initio evolutionary algorithm combined with first-principles calculations, two metastable NaMnO$_2$ polymorphs, $I4_1/amd$ and Cmcm, are identified as promising cathode materials for sodium-ion batteries. Both phases exhibit…
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Understanding the system-level spectral immittance response of capacitive energy storage devices with analytically tractable physics-based models is not only important for the progress of the technology, but also allows to develop new…
Ionic behaviors, including ion distributions and hydration characteristics at solid-liquid interfaces, are important research interests in many important applications, such as electric double-layer capacitors and water lubrication. Here, we…
While quantum batteries have been widely studied under static driving, their performance under periodic driving in many-body systems has received only limited attention. In this Letter, we uncover structural principles showing that…
Organic/inorganic hybrid systems offer great potential for novel solar cell design combining the tunability of organic chromophore absorption properties with high charge carrier mobilities of inorganic semiconductors. However, often such…
A quantum battery is a device where an energy is charged by using a quantum effect. Here, we propose a quantum battery with a charger system composed of $N$ qubits by utilizing a collective effect called a superabsorption. Importantly, the…
Quantum battery exploits the principle of quantum mechanics to transport and store energy. We study the energy transportation of the central-spin quantum battery, which is composed of $N_b$ spins serving as the battery cells, and surrounded…
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The polyanionic compound Na2MnSiO4 is regarded as one of the promising cathode materials for Na-ion batteries due to good specific capacity with its attractive prospect of utilization of two electrons in the redox processes. So, in this…
We study the competing charge-density-wave and superconducting order in the attractive Hubbard model under a voltage bias, using steady-state non-equilibrium dynamical mean-field theory. We show that the charge-density-wave is suppressed in…
Two-dimensional (2D) ferroelectrics offer the potential for ultrathin flexible nanoelectronics, typically utilizing a metal-ferroelectric-metal sandwich structure as the functional unit. Electrodes can either contribute free carriers to…
This paper presents a real time control strategy for energy storage systems integration in electric vehicles fast charging applications combined with generation from intermittent renewable energy sources. A two steps approach taking…
Supercapacitors are promising electrochemical energy storage devices due to their prominent performance in rapid charging/discharging rates, long cycle life, stability, etc. Experimental measurement and theoretical prediction on charging…
Charge disproportionation transitions in complex oxides most commonly link high-temperature phases containing identical cations with the same oxidation state and crystallographic site, to low-temperature phases in which charge transfer…
We report systematic first principles density functional study on the electronic structure, elastic and optical properties of nitrogen based solid hydrogen storage materials LiNH$_2$, NaNH$_2$, KNH$_2$, and RbNH$_2$. The ground state…
Understanding microscopic properties of LiNiO$_2$, a Li-ion battery cathode material with extraordinarily high reversible capacity, has remained a challenge for decades. Based on extensive electronic structure calculations, which reveal a…
The formation energies and electronic structure of europium doped zinc oxide has been determined using DFT and many-body $GW$ methods. In the absence of intrisic defects we find that the europium-$f$ states are located in the ZnO band gap…