Electrolyte and electrode designs for enhanced ion transport properties to enable high performance lithium batteries

B Boz, T Dev, A Salvadori… - Journal of The …, 2021‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Lithium-ion batteries (LiBs) are recognized as the most rapidly growing energy storage
technology. To improve the energy and power density of LiBs, tremendous progress has …

Toward bottom-up understanding of transport in concentrated battery electrolytes

A Mistry, Z Yu, BL Peters, C Fang, R Wang… - ACS central …, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
Bottom-up understanding of transport describes how molecular changes alter species
concentrations and electrolyte voltage drops in operating batteries. Such an understanding …

Experimental platform for determining the maximum limiting current in a polymer electrolyte

J Lee, SY Kim, ZJ Hoffman, G Chen… - ACS Energy …, 2024‏ - ACS Publications
The applicability of both solid and liquid electrolytes in practical batteries is governed by
limiting current. The limiting current for lithium-ion transport in a polymer electrolyte was …

Concentration and velocity profiles in a polymeric lithium-ion battery electrolyte

HG Steinrück, CJ Takacs, HK Kim… - Energy & …, 2020‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Predictive knowledge of ion transport in electrolytes which bridges microscopic and
macroscopic length scales is imperative to design new ion conductors and to simulate …

Characterizing ion transport in electrolytes via concentration and velocity profiles

A Mistry, V Srinivasan… - Advanced Energy …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Current flowing through an electrolyte is accompanied by continuum motion of ions and
solvent, species concentration profiles, and the electric field. While, historically, the …

Overdetermination method for accurate dynamic ion correlations in highly concentrated electrolytes

T Pothmann, M Middendorf, C Gerken… - Faraday …, 2024‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Highly concentrated battery electrolytes exhibit a low flammability as well as a high thermal
and electrochemical stability, and they typically form stable solid electrolyte interphases in …

Inaccessible polarization-induced phase transitions in a block copolymer electrolyte: An unconventional mechanism for the limiting current

LS Grundy, MD Galluzzo, WS Loo, AY Fong… - …, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
Block copolymer electrolytes that microphase separate into mechanically rigid and ion-
conducting domains are promising materials for lithium metal batteries. We present …

Practical considerations for enabling Li| polymer electrolyte batteries

P Lennartz, BA Paren, A Herzog-Arbeitman, XC Chen… - Joule, 2023‏ - cell.com
Rechargeable lithium metal batteries (LMBs) hold promise to deliver high energy densities,
but their commercial application is hampered by challenges such as inhomogeneous lithium …

Limiting current in nanostructured block copolymer electrolytes

JA Maslyn, L Frenck, VD Veeraraghavan… - …, 2021‏ - ACS Publications
Next-generation electrolytes for lithium batteries must be able to conduct ions at sufficiently
high current densities; yet this regime is rarely studied directly. The limiting current density of …

Tomographic X-ray particle tracking velocimetry: Proof-of-concept in a cree** flow

SA Mäkiharju, J Dewanckele, M Boone, C Wagner… - Experiments in …, 2022‏ - Springer
We investigate the feasibility of in-laboratory tomographic X-ray particle tracking velocimetry
(TXPTV) and consider cree** flows with nearly density matched flow tracers. Specifically …