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The growing demand for efficient, high-capacity energy storage systems has driven extensive research into advanced materials for lithium-ion batteries. Among the various candidates, Wadsley-Roth (WR) niobates have emerged as a promising…
Wadsley--Roth crystallographic shear phases form a family of compounds that have attracted attention due to their excellent performance as lithium-ion battery electrodes. The complex crystallographic structure of these materials poses a…
Wadsley-Roth (WR) niobates have emerged as high-rate anode materials that can combine rapid ionic diffusion with good electronic conductivity. WR compounds have been defect-enhanced by limited annealing, however, such materials often…
Lithium ion batteries (LIBs) work under sophisticated external force field and its electrochemical properties could be modulated by strain. Owing to the electro-mechanical coupling, the change of micro-local-structures can greatly affect…
In search of the potential cathode materials for sodium-ion batteries and to understand the diffusion kinetics, we report the detailed analysis of electrochemical investigation of honeycomb structured Na$_{2}$Ni$_{2}$TeO$_{6}$ material…
Ionic conductors have great potential for interesting tunable physical properties via ionic liquid gating and novel energy storage applications such as all-solid-state lithium batteries. In particular, low migration barriers and high…
The surface coating of cathodes using insulator films has proven to be a promising method for high-voltage cathode stabilization in Li-ion batteries. However, there is still substantial uncertainty about how these films function,…
Solid-state materials with high ionic conduction are necessary to many technologies including all-solid-state Li-ion batteries. Understanding how crystal structure dictates ionic diffusion is at the root of the development of fast ionic…
A lamellar lepidocrocite-type titanate structure with ~25% $\text{Ti}^{4+}$vacancies was recently synthesized, and it showed potential for use as an electrode in rechargeable lithium-ion batteries. In addition to lithium, we explore this…
The use of solid-state electrolytes to provide safer, next-generation rechargeable batteries is becoming more feasible as new materials with greater stability and higher ionic diffusion coefficients are designed. However, accurate…
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…
We demonstrate that for polycrystalline LiNi0.33Mn0.33Co0.33O2 c-axis textured thin film cathodes of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, the kinetics of Li storage and release including maximum specific capacity is determined by Li…
It is widely believed that the origin of a significant cause for the voltage and capacity fading observed in lithium (Li)-ion batteries is related to structural modifications occurring in the cathode material during the Li-ion…
A new superstructure of layered pristine LiNiO2 (LNO) was obtained optimizing a large supercell of the 166 space group, the one observed experimentally by XRD, and relaxing both cell parameters and internal positions. The crystal structure…
Crack growth in lithium-ion battery electrodes is typically detrimental and undesirable. However, recent experiments suggest that stabilized fracture of cathode active materials in liquid electrolytes can increase electrochemically active…
Disordered rocksalt Li-excess (DRX) compounds have emerged as promising new cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries, as they can consist solely of resource-abundant metals and eliminate the need for cobalt or nickel. A deeper…
The effect of the curvature of bilayer graphene on the interlayer diffusion of Li atoms is investigated using molecular dynamics simulations. A spectacular enhancement of the diffusion constant parallel to the folding axis is found. The…
Alkali metal intercalation is an important strategy for doping van der Waals materials. Lithium, in particular, was shown to achieve exceptional charge carrier densities, reaching levels at which fundamental electrical, optical, and…
Layered-oxide $\mathrm{LiNi_xMn_yCo_{1-x-y}O_2}$ (NMC) positive electrodes with high Nickel content, deliver high voltages and energy densities. However, a high nickel content, e.g., $x$ = 0.8 (NMC 811), can lead to high surface reactivity,…
In this work, we adopt first-principle calculations based on density functional theory and Kinetic Monte Carlo simulations to investigate the adsorption and diffusion of lithium in bilayer graphene (BLG) as anodes in lithium-ion batteries.…