Electrochemical and electrocatalytic processes are of key importance for the transition to a
sustainable energy supply as well as for a wide variety of other technologically relevant …

Synchrotron radiation based techniques are powerful tools for battery research and allow
probing a wide range of length scales, with different depth sensitivities and spatial/temporal …

The increasing global need for energy supply in modern society has created a pressing
need to explore new materials for renewable energy technologies. However, conventional …

The worldwide energy demand in electric vehicles and the increasing global temperature
have called for development of high‐energy and long‐life lithium‐ion batteries (LIBs) with …

Ultra‐long‐life (at least 10 000 cycles) lithium‐ion batteries are very effective for stationary
energy‐storage applications. However, even “zero‐strain” materials with small unit‐cell …

With the growing demand for sustainable battery technologies, state-of-the-art
characterization techniques become more and more critical for optimizing battery materials …

Capacity decay of an intercalating Li+‐storage material is mainly due to the its particle
microcracks from stress‐causing volume change. To extend its cycle life, its unit‐cell‐volume …

When synthesized under certain conditions, barium titanate (BaTiO3, BTO) nanoparticles
are found to have the non‐thermodynamic cubic structure at room temperature. These …

Understanding how the electronic conductivity of metal oxides used as electrode materials
in Li-ion batteries (LIBs) evolves as a function of the degree of lithiation/delithiation is …

High‐Ni layered oxides undergo distinct chemomechanical evolution upon high‐voltage
charging over 4.2 V, producing crystallographic defects and associated lattice distortions …