[HTML][HTML] Ionic liquid electrolytes for sodium-ion batteries to control thermal runaway

K Sirengo, A Babu, B Brennan, SC Pillai - Journal of Energy Chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
Sodium-ion batteries are expected to be more affordable for stationary applications than
lithium-ion batteries, while still offering sufficient energy density and operational capacity to …

Understanding the Electrode–Electrolyte Interfaces of Ionic Liquids and Deep Eutectic Solvents

OK Coskun, M Muñoz, S Dongare, W Dean… - Langmuir, 2024 - ACS Publications
Developing unconventional electrolytes such as ionic liquids (ILs) and deep eutectic
solvents (DESs) has led to remarkable advances in electrochemical energy storage and …

Anomalous underscreening in the restricted primitive model

A Härtel, M Bültmann, F Coupette - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Underscreening is a collective term for charge correlations in electrolytes decaying slower
than the Debye length. Anomalous underscreening refers to phenomenology that cannot be …

Water in the Electrical Double Layer of Ionic Liquids on Graphene

Q Zheng, ZAH Goodwin, V Gopalakrishnan… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The performance of electrochemical devices using ionic liquids (ILs) as electrolytes can be
impaired by water uptake. This work investigates the influence of water on the behavior of …

Theory of cation solvation and ionic association in nonaqueous solvent mixtures

ZAH Goodwin, M McEldrew, B Kozinsky, MZ Bazant - PRX Energy, 2023 - APS
Conventional lithium-ion batteries, and many next-generation technologies, rely on organic
electrolytes with multiple solvents to achieve the desired physicochemical and interfacial …

[HTML][HTML] Cracking ion pairs in the electrical double layer of ionic liquids

ZAH Goodwin, AA Kornyshev - Electrochimica Acta, 2022 - Elsevier
Here we investigate a limiting case of the theory for aggregation and gelation in the
electrical double layer (EDL) of ionic liquids (ILs). The limiting case investigated only …

Mechanism of overscreening breakdown by molecular-scale electrode surface morphology in asymmetric ionic liquids

I Nesterova, NM Evstigneev, OI Ryabkov… - Journal of Colloid and …, 2025 - Elsevier
The interfacial nature of the electric double layer (EDL) assumes that electrode surface
morphology significantly impacts the EDL properties. Since molecular-scale roughness …

Cation valency in water-in-salt electrolytes alters the short-and long-range structure of the electrical double layer

SA Berlinger, V Küpers, PJ Dudenas… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Highly concentrated aqueous electrolytes (termed water-in-salt electrolytes, WiSEs) at solid-
liquid interfaces are ubiquitous in myriad applications including biological signaling …

Electric field induced associations in the double layer of salt-in-ionic-liquid electrolytes

DM Markiewitz, ZAH Goodwin, M McEldrew… - Faraday …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Ionic liquids (ILs) are an extremely exciting class of electrolytes for energy storage
applications. Upon dissolving alkali metal salts, such as Li or Na based salts, with the same …

Long-Range Surface Forces in Salt-in-Ionic Liquids

X Zhang, ZAH Goodwin, AG Hoane, A Deptula… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Ionic liquids (ILs) are a promising class of electrolytes with a unique combination of
properties, such as extremely low vapor pressures and nonflammability. Doping ILs with …