The development of smartphones and electric cars calls for electrochemical energy storage
devices with higher capacities, faster charging rates, and improved safety. A key to …

Polyanion-type cathode materials have grown in leaps and bounds and become one of the
promising candidates for metal-ion batteries since the successful case of LiFePO 4 in lithium …

Silicon and germanium are among the most promising candidates as anodes for Li‐ion
batteries, meanwhile their potential application in sodium‐and potassium‐ion batteries is …

TiNb2O7 is a Wadsley–Roth phase with a crystallographic shear structure and is a
promising candidate for high-rate lithium ion energy storage. The fundamental aspects of the …

The solid lithium-ion electrolyte “Li7La3Zr2O12”(LLZO) with a garnet-type structure has
been prepared in the cubic and tetragonal modification following conventional ceramic …

Systems and methods are disclosed for communicating data in an integrated sensor network
having one or more nodes coupled to an optical sensor network and a radio frequency …

The selection of the elements to combine delimits the possible outcomes of synthetic
chemistry because it determines the range of compositions and structures, and thus …

For the development of safe and long-lasting lithium-ion batteries we need electrolytes with
excellent ionic transport properties. Argyrodite-type Li6PS5X (X: Cl, Br, I) belongs to a family …

Despite the advantage of high capacity, the practical use of the silicon anode is still hindered
by large volume expansion during the severe pulverization lithiation process, which results …

Li metal anodes are going through a great revival but they still encounter grand challenges.
One often neglected issue is that most reported Li metal anodes are only cyclable under …