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Revealing interfacial failure mechanism of silicon based all solid state batteries via cryogenic electron microscopy Open

Jingming Yao, Zhixuan Yu, Jun Ma, Zhangran Ye, Congcong Du , et al. · 2025

Interfaces are the critical components of all-solid-state batteries, and it is generally believed that high interfacial impedance is the major culprits of battery failure. In this study, the interface impedance has been found not to be a m…

Synthesis, Microstructural Evolution, and Wet Wear Performance of an Fe55-Based Coating Reinforced with CeO2 and TiN Particles Fabricated via Plasma Beam Spraying Open

Xinbin Liu, Liang Yu, Tengfei Zheng, Yongfu Tang, Guijun Yan , et al. · 2025

Valve leakage mainly comes from worn sealing surfaces caused by abrasive particles. This study uses plasma beam spraying to create Fe55 alloy coatings with CeO2 and TiN added to improve microstructure and wear resistance. Five coatings wer…

Mechanically and chemically robust ultrahigh-Ni cathodes enabled by localized cation disorder design Open

Yijun Song, Bo Wang, Yongpeng Cui, Pengyun Liu, Xiuli Gao , et al. · 2025

Mechanically and Chemically Co‐Robust Ni‐Rich Cathodes with Ultrahigh Capacity and Prolonged Cycle Life Open

Bo Wang, Kuo Li, Ge Xu, Zihan Zhang, Xinxin Wang , et al. · 2025

Ni‐rich layered oxide (NRLO) materials are considered highly promising cathode for lithium‐ion batteries. However, their practical application is limited by capacity loss and interface instability caused by chemical and mechanical failure …

Electrolyte Reconfiguration by Cation/Anion Cross‐coordination for Highly Reversible and Facile Sodium Storage Open

Xin Hou, Shuo Wang, Bo Wang, Yanling Qiu, Mingqin Jiang , et al. · 2024

Hard carbon (HC) materials are promising anodes for sodium‐ion batteries (SIBs) owing to low cost, high specific capacity and low working potential. However, the poor compatibility of the electrolyte with HC leads to low initial coulombic …

Mitigating the Kinetic Hysteresis of Co‐Free Ni‐Rich Cathodes via Gradient Penetration of Nonmagnetic Silicon Open

Yijun Song, Yongpeng Cui, Bo Wang, Lina Ge, Li Zhou , et al. · 2024

Co‐free Ni‐rich layered oxides are considered a promising cathode material for next‐generation Li‐ion batteries due to their cost‐effectiveness and high capacity. However, they still suffer from the practical challenges of low discharge ca…

Enriching Nano‐Heterointerfaces in Proton Conducting TiO 2 ‐SrTiO 3 @TiO 2 Yolk–Shell Electrolyte for Low‐Temperature Solid Oxide Fuel Cells Open

Mengchen Du, Shaozheng Ji, Pan Zhang, Yongfu Tang, Yanyan Liu · 2024

A challenging task in solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) is seeking for an alternative electrolyte, enabling high ionic conduction at relatively low operating temperatures, i.e., 300–600 °C. Proton‐conducting candidates, in particular, hold a …

Steering lithium and potassium storage mechanism in covalent organic frameworks by incorporating transition metal single atoms Open

Yingnan Cao, Qing Xu, Yi Sun, Jixin Shi, Yi Xu , et al. · 2024

Organic electrodes mainly consisting of C, O, H, and N are promising candidates for advanced batteries. However, the sluggish ionic and electronic conductivity limit the full play of their high theoretical capacities. Here, we integrate th…

Single-Atom Generation Inducing Electrochemical Transformation During Cycling in Transition Metal Sulfides for Na-Ion Batteries Open

Canpei Wang, Jitong Yan, Tianyu Li, Yongfu Tang, Qiong Zheng , et al. · 2024

A review of all‐solid‐state lithium‐selenium batteries Open

Baiyu Guo, Liqiang Zhang, Yongfu Tang, Jianyu Huang · 2023

Rechargeable lithium‐selenium batteries (LSeBs) are promising candidates for next‐generation energy storage systems due to their exceptional theoretical volumetric energy density (3253 mAh cm −3 ). However, akin to lithium‐sulfur batteries…

Deciphering the lithium ion conduction mechanism in solid-electrolyte-interphase Open

Guanglei Cui, Jinran Sun, Jingtong Yan, Fan Li, Jiedong Li , et al. · 2023

The solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) plays a critical role in determining the performance of lithium batteries, making it an area of increased scrutiny in research. Although the formation mechanism and structural model of SEI have been e…

Prestoring Lithium into SnO2 Coated 3D Carbon Fiber Cloth Framework as Dendrite-Free Lithium Metal Anode Open

Tao Wei, Yanyan Zhou, Cheng Sun, Lesheng Liu, Sijia Wang , et al. · 2023

Three-dimensional (3D) conductive frameworks have been studied extensively in lithium (Li) metal anodes for their good electronic conductivities and superior structural integrity. In this work, we demonstrated a carbon fiber cloth (CFC) fr…

Revealing the Origin of High-Thermal-Stability of Single-Crystal Ni-Rich Cathodes Toward Higher-Safety Batteries Open

Yijun Song, Yongpeng Cui, Bingyu Li, Lin Geng, Jin Zhou , et al. · 2023

Morphodynamics of dendrite growth in alumina based all solid-state sodium metal batteries Open

Lin Geng, Dingchuan Xue, Jingming Yao, Qiushi Dai, Haiming Sun , et al. · 2023

Atomic scale imaging revealed that the deposition/stripping of Na from the β′′-Al 2 O 3 solid electrolyte causes delamination cracks and the closure of the conduction planes.

Tailoring lithium concentration in alloy anodes for long cycling and high areal capacity in sulfide-based all solid-state batteries Open

Zaifa Wang, Jun Zhao, Xuedong Zhang, Zhaoyu Rong, Yongfu Tang , et al. · 2022

Lithium–indium (Li-In) alloys are important anode materials for sulfide-based all-solid-state batteries (ASSBs), but how different Li concentrations in the alloy anodes impact the electrochemical performance of ASSBs remains unexplored. Th…

Grain Boundary Electronic Insulation for High‐Performance All‐Solid‐State Lithium Batteries Open

Xiaofei Yang, Xuejie Gao, Ming Jiang, Jing Luo, Jitong Yan , et al. · 2022

Sulfide electrolytes with high ionic conductivities are one of the most highly sought for all‐solid‐state lithium batteries (ASSLBs). However, the non‐negligible electronic conductivities of sulfide electrolytes (≈10 −8 S cm −1 ) lead to e…

Reviving the rock-salt phases in Ni-rich layered cathodes by mechano-electrochemistry in all-solid-state batteries Open

Zaifa Wang, Zhenyu Wang, Dingchuan Xue, Jun Zhao, Xuedong Zhang , et al. · 2022

296 Targeting B-cell malignancies with anti-ROR1 CAR T-cell therapy Open

Jinsheng Weng, Owhofasa Agbedia, Jingjing Cao, Xiaoyun Cheng, Shao-Qing Kuang , et al. · 2022

Background Anti-CD19 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy has been shown to induce high complete response rates in the majority of B-cell lymphoma patients. However, over 50% of patients relapse within one year. A major cause of …

Highly Efficient and Selective Carbon-Doped BN Photocatalyst Derived from a Homogeneous Precursor Reconfiguration Open

Qiong Lu, Jing An, Yandong Duan, Qingzhi Luo, Yunyun Shang , et al. · 2022

The modification of inert boron nitride by carbon doping to make it an efficient photocatalyst has been considered as a promising strategy. Herein, a highly efficient porous BCN (p-BCN) photocatalyst was synthesized via precursor reconfigu…

Enabling Long Cycle Life and High Rate Iron Difluoride Based Lithium Batteries by In Situ Cathode Surface Modification Open

Yong Su, Jingzhao Chen, Hui Li, Haiming Sun, Tingting Yang , et al. · 2022

Metals fluorides (MFs) are potential conversion cathodes to replace commercial intercalation cathodes. However, the application of MFs is impeded by their poor electronic/ionic conductivity and severe decomposition of electrolyte. Here, a …

Interlayer Doping of Pseudocapacitive Hydrated Vanadium Oxide Via Mn2+ for High-Performance Aqueous Zinc-Ion Battery Open

Xuehui Pang, Pan Zhang, Wei Feng, Shaozheng Ji, Yongfu Tang , et al. · 2022

Metal-Organic Frameworks for Nanoconfinement of Chlorine in Rechargeable Lithium-Chlorine Batteries Open

Yan Xu, Long Jiao, Jiale Ma, Pan Zhang, Yongfu Tang , et al. · 2022

Size-Dependent Chemomechanical Failure of Sulfide Solid Electrolyte Particles during Electrochemical Reaction with Lithium Open

Jun Zhao, Chao Zhao, Jianping Zhu, Xiangsi Liu, Jingming Yao , et al. · 2021

The very high ionic conductivity of Li₁₀GeP₂S₁₂ (LGPS) solid electrolyte (SE) makes it a promising candidate SE for solid-state batteries in electrical vehicles. However, chemomechanical failure, whose mech…

In situ TEM visualization of single atom catalysis in solid-state Na–O2 nanobatteries Open

Haiming Sun, Qiunan Liu, Zhiying Gao, Lin Geng, Yanshuai Li , et al. · 2021

In situ TEM observation and DFT calculation provide an atomic-scale understanding of the electrocatalysis mechanism of single-atom catalysts in an Na–O 2 nanobattery, where single-atomic Co sites facilitate the formation/decomposition of N…

Degradation by Kinking in Layered Cathode Materials Open

Yanshuai Li, Xiaomei Li, Congcong Du, Haiming Sun, Yin Zhang , et al. · 2021

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 report a new type of degradation mechanism through the elect…

Co3ZnC@NC Material Derived from ZIF-8 for Lithium-Ion Capacitors Open

Yongfu Tang, Haiwei Li, Ruonan Zhang, Wenfeng Guo, Meiqi Yu · 2021

Metal-organic framework (MOF)-derived carbon materials were widely reported as the anodes of lithium-ion capacitors (LICs). However, tunning the structure and electrochemical performance of the MOF-derived carbon materials is still challen…

Novel K2Ti8O17 Anode via Na+/Al3+ Co-Intercalation Mechanism for Rechargeable Aqueous Al-Ion Battery with Superior Rate Capability Open

Qiangqiang Feng, Yanyan Liu, Jitong Yan, Wei Feng, Shaozheng Ji , et al. · 2021

A promising aqueous aluminum ion battery (AIB) was assembled using a novel layered K2Ti8O17 anode against an activated carbon coated on a Ti mesh cathode in an AlCl3-based aqueous electrolyte. The intercalation/deintercalation mechanism en…

In situ Observation of Li Deposition‐Induced Cracking in Garnet Solid Electrolytes Open

Jun Zhao, Yongfu Tang, Qiushi Dai, Congcong Du, Yin Zhang , et al. · 2021

Lithium (Li) penetration through solid electrolytes (SEs) induces short circuits in Li solid‐state batteries (SSBs), which is a critical issue that hinders the development of high energy density SSBs. While cracking in ceramic SEs has been…

Lithium Deposition-Induced Fracture of Carbon Nanotubes and Its Implication to Solid-State Batteries Open

Jingzhao Chen, Chao Zhao, Dingchuan Xue, Liqiang Zhang, Tingting Yang , et al. · 2021

The increasing demand for safe and dense energy storage has shifted research focus from liquid electrolyte-based Li-ion batteries toward solid-state batteries (SSBs). However, the application of SSBs is impeded by uncontrollable Li dendrit…

Layered LiCoO2–LiFeO2 Heterostructure Composite for Semiconductor-Based Fuel Cells Open

Yanyan Liu, Xia Chen, Baoyuan Wang, Yongfu Tang · 2021

Enabling fast ionic transport at a low-temperature range (400–600 °C) is of great importance to promoting the development of solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs). In this study, a layer-structured LiCoO2–LiFeO2 heterostructure composite is explo…

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