Synchrotron X-ray analytical techniques for studying materials electrochemistry in rechargeable batteries

F Lin, Y Liu, X Yu, L Cheng, A Singer… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Rechargeable battery technologies have ignited major breakthroughs in contemporary
society, including but not limited to revolutions in transportation, electronics, and grid energy …

Phase engineering and synchrotron-based study on two-dimensional energy nanomaterials

Q He, B Sheng, K Zhu, Y Zhou, S Qiao, Z Wang… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
In recent years, there has been significant interest in the development of two-dimensional
(2D) nanomaterials with unique physicochemical properties for various energy applications …

Hierarchical Do** Engineering with Active/Inert Dual Elements Stabilizes LiCoO2 to 4.6 V

N Qin, Q Gan, Z Zhuang, Y Wang, Y Li… - Advanced Energy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
It is highly desirable to raise the charge cutoff voltage to realize the potential of LiCoO2
(LCO) with its ultra‐high theoretical capacity of 275 mAh g‐1. However, rapid fading due to …

Systematic design of superaerophobic nanotube-array electrode comprised of transition-metal sulfides for overall water splitting

H Li, S Chen, Y Zhang, Q Zhang, X Jia, Q Zhang… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Great attention has been focused on the design of electrocatalysts to enable electrochemical
water splitting—a technology that allows energy derived from renewable resources to be …

Coupling between oxygen redox and cation migration explains unusual electrochemistry in lithium-rich layered oxides

WE Gent, K Lim, Y Liang, Q Li, T Barnes, SJ Ahn… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Lithium-rich layered transition metal oxide positive electrodes offer access to anion redox at
high potentials, thereby promising high energy densities for lithium-ion batteries. However …

Persistent and partially mobile oxygen vacancies in Li-rich layered oxides

PM Csernica, SS Kalirai, WE Gent, K Lim, YS Yu, Y Liu… - Nature Energy, 2021 - nature.com
Increasing the energy density of layered oxide battery electrodes is challenging as
accessing high states of delithiation often triggers voltage degradation and oxygen release …

Gradient Li-rich oxide cathode particles immunized against oxygen release by a molten salt treatment

Z Zhu, D Yu, Y Yang, C Su, Y Huang, Y Dong, I Waluyo… - Nature Energy, 2019 - nature.com
Lithium-rich transition metal oxide (Li1+ X M1− X O2) cathodes have high energy density
above 900 Wh kg− 1 due to hybrid anion-and cation-redox (HACR) contributions, but critical …

Metal–oxygen decoordination stabilizes anion redox in Li-rich oxides

J Hong, WE Gent, P **ao, K Lim, DH Seo, J Wu… - Nature materials, 2019 - nature.com
Reversible high-voltage redox chemistry is an essential component of many electrochemical
technologies, from (electro) catalysts to lithium-ion batteries. Oxygen-anion redox has …

Revealing high Na-content P2-type layered oxides as advanced sodium-ion cathodes

C Zhao, Z Yao, Q Wang, H Li, J Wang… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Layered Na-based oxides with the general composition of Na x TMO2 (TM: transition metal)
have attracted significant attention for their high compositional diversity that provides tunable …

Capturing dynamic ligand-to-metal charge transfer with a long-lived cationic intermediate for anionic redox

B Li, K Kumar, I Roy, AV Morozov, OV Emelyanova… - Nature Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Reversible anionic redox reactions represent a transformational change for creating
advanced high-energy-density positive-electrode materials for lithium-ion batteries. The …