Agricultural development, extensive industrialization, and rapid growth of the global
population have inadvertently been accompanied by environmental pollution. Water …

Beyond conventional electrocatalyst engineering, recent studies have unveiled the
effectiveness of manipulating the local reaction environment in enhancing the performance …

Improving safety while increasing the charging rates and extending the lifetime is the grand
challenge for lithium-ion batteries. The key challenge is to control lithium plating, a parasitic …

The production of molecular hydrogen by catalyzing water splitting is central to achieving the
decarbonization of sustainable fuels and chemical transformations. In this work, a series of …

The rechargeability of lithium metal batteries strongly depends on the electrolyte. The
uniformity of the electroplated Li anode morphology underlies this dependence, so …

The electrocatalytic oxygen evolution reaction (OER) supplies the protons and electrons
needed to transform renewable electricity into chemicals and fuels. However, the OER is …

Electrochemical ion insertion involves coupled ion–electron transfer reactions, transport of
guest species and redox of the host. The hosts are typically anisotropic solids with 2D …

Reaction rates at spatially heterogeneous, unstable interfaces are notoriously difficult to
quantify, yet are essential in engineering many chemical systems, such as batteries and …

Electrochemical and mechanical properties of lithium‐ion battery materials are heavily
dependent on their 3D microstructure characteristics. A quantitative understanding of the …

Electrolytes will play a central role in the development of next‐generation batteries with
increased energy density and cycle life and reduced cost. While molecular designs can …