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Ultrahigh rate performance of active particles used in lithium-ion battery electrodes has been revealed by single-particle measurements, which indicates a huge potential for developing high-power batteries. However, the charging/discharging…

As an anode material for lithium-ion batteries, amorphous silicon offers a significantly higher energy density than the graphite anodes currently used. Alloying reactions of lithium and silicon, however, induce large deformation and lead to…

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The penetration of the lithium-ion battery energy storage system (BESS) into the power system environment occurs at a colossal rate worldwide. This is mainly because it is considered as one of the major tools to decarbonize, digitalize, and…

Achieving Li-S batteries' promise of significantly higher gravimetric energy density and lower cost than Li-ion batteries requires researchers to delineate the most important factors affecting the performance of this technology. By encoding…

The performances of lithium-ion batteries are set by the electrodes materials capacity to exchange lithium ions and electrons faster and reversibly. To this goal Ni-rich layered metal oxides, especially LiNiO2, are attractive electrode…

Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) of high energy density and light-weight design, have found wide applications in electronic devices and systems. Degradation mechanisms that caused by lithiation is a main challenging problem for LIBs with high…

Layered lithium intercalating transition metal (TM) oxides are promising cathode materials for Li-ion batteries. Here we scrutinize the recently developed strongly constrained and appropriately normed (SCAN) density functional method to…

Predicting lithium-ion battery lifetime is one of the greatest unsolved problems in battery research right now. Recent years have witnessed a surge in lifetime prediction papers using physics-based, empirical, or data-driven models, most of…

We describe Na0.67Mn0.625Fe0.25Co0.125O2 (NMFCO), a P2-type sodium-ion battery cathode. Our composition, with significantly less Co than in an earlier study, shows discharge capacity close to 190 mAhg-1 and specific energy density exceeding…

Iron and cobalt distannides \ce{MSn2} (M = Fe, Co) are regarded as a promising conversion-type anode material for lithium- and sodium-ion batteries, but their properties are not well understood. In this work, we report a first-principles…

As the energy storage ecosystem evolves beyond lithium, MXenes, a versatile family of 2D materials derived from MAX phases, have emerged as promising candidates for next-generation energy storage electrodes due to their tunable surface…

X-ray Computed Tomography (X-ray CT) is a well-known non-destructive imaging technique where contrast originates from the materials' absorption coefficients. Novel battery characterization studies on increasingly challenging samples have…

We report the exfoliation of layered Na2Ti3O7, a promising anode material for Na-ion batteries, and restacking using HNO3 and NaOH to form H-Ti3O7 and Na(x)-Ti3O7 compositions, respectively. The materials were characterised by a range of…

In recent years, the Na-ion SuperIonic CONductor (NASICON) based polyanionics are considered the pertinent cathode materials in sodium-ion batteries due to their 3D open framework, which can accommodate a wide range of Na content and can…

Si-anodes have long been candidates thanks to an expected ten-fold increase in capacity compared to graphite. However, details of the mechanisms governing their degradation remain elusive, hindering science-guided development of long-lived…

Solid mixed conductors with significant ionic as well as electronic conduction play a pivotal role for mass transfer and storage as required in battery electrodes. Single-phase materials with simultaneously high electronic and ionic…

Despite the importance of the electron correlation in the first-principles description of the Li-ion cathode materials, the Coulomb interaction parameter, U is often treated as an ad hoc value. In practice, one usually relies on empirical…

Further technological advancement of both lithium-ion and emerging battery technologies can be catalyzed by an improved understanding of the chemistry and working mechanisms of the solid electrolyte interphases (SEIs) that form at…

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