Research area
Energy & Climate
Energy technologies, decarbonization and environmental protection.
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Evidence date ·Why a battery can look stable while its interface keeps changing
PreprintTracked over timeA modeling preprint separates changing lithium contact from accumulating interphase damage and predicts how faster discharge could reverse an energy advantage.
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Evidence date ·What adding one lithium atom reveals about a solid battery interface
PreprintTracked over timeA preprint’s calculations show what positive and negative insertion energies mean, and why a migration barrier is a different test. Battery implications remain conditional.
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Evidence date ·How sodium removal can break contact in a solid-state battery
PreprintTracked over timeTemperature-dependent current tests link sodium contact loss to a boundary barrier, while a tin–sodium layer lowers it in model cells; durability remains open.
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Evidence date ·How a layered ceramic changes cycling in a battery with a solid electrolyte
PreprintTracked over timeA March 2026 preprint compares dense and three-layer solid electrolytes, using impedance and lithium profiles to explain a 25-cycle capacity gap.
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Evidence date ·Why electrical flow and cracking can open a ceramic battery barrier
PreprintTracked over timeA theoretical preprint models how cracks let metal cross ceramic electrolytes, including slower growth below critical current and variation between samples.
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Evidence date ·Lithium and sodium share growth rules, but sodium leaves a changed interface
PreprintTracked over timeNanoscale imaging reveals shared lithium and sodium growth rules, while sodium removal leaves a residual layer whose chemistry is still unknown.
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Evidence date ·How neutrons reveal the buried contact between lithium metal and a solid electrolyte
PreprintTracked over timeNeutron depth profiling and reflectometry probe a buried lithium–solid-electrolyte contact at different scales, revealing why one test can miss a graded transition.
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Evidence date ·How nitrogen changes a chloride solid for battery ion transport
PreprintTracked over timeA 2025 preprint links nitrogen-driven disorder in chloride solids to 2.02 mS cm−1 conductivity and 81.87% capacity after 2,000 cycles in one test.
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Evidence date ·Tracing lithium through chloride–bromide solids that carry ions in batteries
PreprintTracked over timeA 2025 preprint adapts a computer model for chloride–bromide solids and shows why crystal volume matters for predictions of lithium movement.
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Evidence date ·Inside a ceramic battery where crystal seams shape transport and fracture
PreprintTracked over timeAn August 2025 preprint review connects crystal seams with ion flow, lithium deposits and cracking, revealing tradeoffs in ceramic battery design.