Electrochemical energy storage systems, specifically lithium and lithium-ion batteries, are
ubiquitous in contemporary society with the widespread deployment of portable electronic …

Battery electrodes comprise a mixture of active material particles, conductive carbon and
binder additives deposited onto a current collector. Although this basic design has persisted …

In lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), many promising electrodes that are based on transition metal
oxides exhibit anomalously high storage capacities beyond their theoretical values …

During the last decades, X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) has become an
indispensable method for probing the structure and composition of heterogeneous catalysts …

The electrochemical properties and performances of lithium-ion batteries are primarily
governed by their constituent electrode materials, whose intrinsic thermodynamic and kinetic …

We report a catalyst family of high-entropy alloy (HEA) atomic layers having three elements
from iron-group metals (IGMs) and two elements from platinum-group metals (PGMs). Ten …

Superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs) have been extensively investigated
during the last couple of decades because of their potential applications across various …

Structural modulation endows electrochemical hybrids with promising energy storage
properties owing to their adjustable interfacial and/or electronic characteristics. For MXene …

Layered AxCoO2 materials built by stacking layers of CoO2 slabs and inserting alkali ions in
between them have shown a promising activity of oxygen evolution reaction (OER) due to …

How to increase energy storage capability is one of the fundamental questions, it requires a
deep understanding of the electronic structure, redox processes, and structural evolution of …