Rechargeable sodium‐ion batteries (SIBs) are emerging as a viable alternative to lithium‐
ion battery (LIB) technology, as their raw materials are economical, geographically abundant …

Breakthroughs in molecular and materials discovery require meaningful outliers to be
identified in existing trends. As knowledge accumulates, the inherent bias of human intuition …

Since the discovery of Ti3C2Tx in early 2011, a newly emerging family of post-graphene two-
dimensional transition metal carbides and nitrides (MXenes) has been rigorously …

Since its development in the 1970s, the rechargeable alkali-ion battery has proven to be a
truly transformative technology, providing portable energy storage for devices ranging from …

Layered cathode materials are commonly used in lithium and sodium ion batteries, but they
are prone to degradation under electrochemical cycling during battery operation. Here we …

Structural and compositional defects in crystalline materials are unavoidable. Accurately
disentangling their role in composition–structure–property correlations is therefore essential …

Na-ion batteries are promising devices for smart grids and electric vehicles due to the cost
effectiveness arising from the overall abundance of sodium (Na) and its even geographical …

Hysteresis is a phenomenon that pervades both the physical and social sciences. While
commonly associated with magnetism, it also occurs in a wide variety of other materials …

Manganese‐rich layered oxide materials hold great potential as low‐cost and high‐capacity
cathodes for Na‐ion batteries. However, they usually form a P2 phase and suffer from fast …

Stacking faults driven by dislocations have been observed in layered transition-metal oxide
cathodes both in cycled and uncycled materials. The reversibility of stacking-sequence …