The rapid development of modern consumer electronics is placing higher demands on the
lithium cobalt oxide (LiCoO2; LCO) cathode that powers them. Increasing operating voltage …

Environmental problems, especially increasing atmospheric pollution, are urgently
prompting new strategies to assist in sustainable development. Many studies have …

Efficient bifunctional electrocatalysts for hydrogen and oxygen evolution reactions are key to
water electrolysis. Herein, we report a built‐in electric field (BEF) strategy to fabricate …

Electrochemical coupling of biomass valorization with carbon dioxide (CO2) conversion
provides a promising approach to generate value-added chemicals on both sides of the …

Coatings and surface passivation are sought to protect high-energy-density cathodes in
lithium-ion batteries, which suffer from labile oxygen loss and fast degradations. Here we …

Oxygen vacancies (Ov) engineering has demonstrated tremendous power to expedite
electrocatalytic kinetics for oxygen evolution reaction (OER). The mechanism is elusive, and …

Secondary batteries are a core technology for clean energy storage and conversion
systems, to reduce environmental pollution and alleviate the energy crisis. Oxide cathodes …

Chemomechanics is an old subject, yet its importance has been revived in rechargeable
batteries where the mechanical energy and damage associated with redox reactions can …

High-Ni-content layered materials are promising cathodes for next-generation lithium-ion
batteries. However, investigating the atomic configurations of the delithiation-induced …

The utilization of high‐voltage LiCoO2 is imperative to break the bottleneck of the practical
energy density of lithium‐ion batteries. However, LiCoO2 suffers from severe structural and …