Oxide cathodes: functions, instabilities, self healing, and degradation mitigations

Y Dong, J Li - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Recent progress in high-energy-density oxide cathodes for lithium-ion batteries has pushed
the limits of lithium usage and accessible redox couples. It often invokes hybrid anion-and …

Delocalization error: The greatest outstanding challenge in density‐functional theory

KR Bryenton, AA Adeleke, SG Dale… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Every day, density‐functional theory (DFT) is routinely applied to computational modeling of
molecules and materials with the expectation of high accuracy. However, in certain …

High-entropy Na-deficient layered oxides for sodium-ion batteries

H Wang, X Gao, S Zhang, Y Mei, L Ni, J Gao, H Liu… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Sodium layered oxides always suffer from sluggish kinetics and deleterious phase
transformations at deep-desodiation state (ie.,> 4.0 V) in O3 structure, incurring inferior rate …

Multi-channel electron transfer induced by polyvanadate in metal-organic framework for boosted peroxymonosulfate activation

MY Lan, YH Li, CC Wang, XJ Li, J Cao, L Meng… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Catalytic peroxymonosulfate (PMS) activation processes don't solely rely on electron transfer
from dominant metal centers due to the complicated composition and interface environment …

Enabling all‐solid‐state Li metal batteries operated at 30° C by molecular regulation of polymer electrolyte

Y Wei, TH Liu, W Zhou, H Cheng, X Liu… - Advanced Energy …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The low ionic conductivity of poly (ethylene oxide)(PEO)‐based polymer electrolytes at room
temperature and the undesired lithium‐dendrite growth at Li| PEO interface impede their …

Reactive boride infusion stabilizes Ni-rich cathodes for lithium-ion batteries

M Yoon, Y Dong, J Hwang, J Sung, H Cha, K Ahn… - Nature Energy, 2021 - nature.com
Engineered polycrystalline electrodes are critical to the cycling stability and safety of lithium-
ion batteries, yet it is challenging to construct high-quality coatings at both the primary-and …

Boron-doped sodium layered oxide for reversible oxygen redox reaction in Na-ion battery cathodes

YJ Guo, PF Wang, YB Niu, XD Zhang, Q Li, X Yu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Na-ion cathode materials operating at high voltage with a stable cycling behavior are
needed to develop future high-energy Na-ion cells. However, the irreversible oxygen redox …

Lithium superionic conductors with corner-sharing frameworks

KJ Jun, Y Sun, Y **ao, Y Zeng, R Kim, H Kim… - Nature materials, 2022 - nature.com
Superionic lithium conductivity has only been discovered in a few classes of materials,
mostly found in thiophosphates and rarely in oxides. Herein, we reveal that corner-sharing …

Pushing the limit of 3d transition metal-based layered oxides that use both cation and anion redox for energy storage

M Zhang, DA Kitchaev, Z Lebens-Higgins… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Intercalation chemistry has dominated electrochemical energy storage for decades, and
storage capacity worldwide has now reached the terawatt-hour level. State-of-the-art …

Origin and regulation of oxygen redox instability in high-voltage battery cathodes

X Liu, GL Xu, VSC Kolluru, C Zhao, Q Li, X Zhou, Y Liu… - Nature Energy, 2022 - nature.com
Oxygen redox at high voltage has emerged as a transformative paradigm for high-energy
battery cathodes such as layered transition-metal oxides by offering extra capacity beyond …