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Enabling Innovation with Fundamental Materials Science
We focus on solving fundamental problems that could enable technological breakthroughs. This approach bridges the gap between application-oriented research and basic science. By pursuing general knowledge and understandings, we aspire to equip scientists and engineers with the insight needed to accelerate innovation.
Research Highlights
- Apparent "diffusion signatures" from battery particles – such as the square-root-of-time evolution of overpotential and 45° lines in Nyquist plots – are shown to arise from mechanisms other than solid-state diffusion. [Nature Energy] [Additional context is published in a Research Briefing]
- We explain why recently reported experimental measurements on Li-intercalation reactions fall short of validating (or refuting) charge-transfer models. [ACS Energy Letters]
- We identify "Li-ion partial conductivity" and "thermodynamic factor of the salt" as the key transport parameters of electrolytes that need to be improved to enable the use of thick electrodes. [Electrochimica Acta]