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Zhang, S. (author), Li, Yuhang (author), Bannenberg, L.J. (author), Liu, Ming (author), Ganapathy, S. (author), Wagemaker, M. (author)Formation cycling is a critical process aimed at improving the performance of lithium ion (Li-ion) batteries during subsequent use. Achieving highly reversible Li-metal anodes, which would boost battery energy density, is a formidable challenge. Here, formation cycling and its impact on the subsequent cycling are largely unexplored. Through...journal article 2024
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Wang, C. (author), Liu, M. (author), Bannenberg, L.J. (author), Zhao, C. (author), Thijs, M.A. (author), Boshuizen, B. (author), Ganapathy, S. (author), Wagemaker, M. (author)Lithium metal with its high theoretical capacity and low negative potential is considered one of the most important candidates to raise the energy density of all-solid-state batteries. However, lithium filament growth and its induced solid electrolyte decomposition pose severe challenges to realize a long cycle life. Here, dendrite growth in...journal article 2024
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Liu, M. (author), Wang, C. (author), Zhao, C. (author), van der Maas, E.L. (author), Lin, Kui (author), Arszelewska, Violetta (author), Li, Baohua (author), Ganapathy, S. (author), Wagemaker, M. (author)The original version of this article contained errors in Figure 3a and Figure 3f. In Figure 3a, the activation energies (Ea) were calculated using a log scale instead of a logarithm ln scale. In Figure 3f, the y-axis interval was not properly selected. The correct y-axis interval in Figure 3f and the numerical values of the activation energy...journal article 2023
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Liu, M. (author), Zhang, S. (author), van Eck, Ernst R.H. (author), Wang, C. (author), Ganapathy, S. (author), Wagemaker, M. (author)The development of commercial solid-state batteries has to date been hindered by the individual limitations of inorganic and organic solid electrolytes, motivating hybrid concepts. However, the room-temperature conductivity of hybrid solid electrolytes is still insufficient to support the required battery performance. A key challenge is to...journal article 2022
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Liang, Jianwen (author), van der Maas, E.L. (author), Luo, Jing (author), Li, Xiaona (author), Chen, Ning (author), Adair, Keegan R. (author), Li, Weihan (author), Li, Junjie (author), Hu, Yongfeng (author), Liu, Jue (author), Zhang, Li (author), Zhao, W. (author), Parnell, S.R. (author), Ganapathy, S. (author), Wagemaker, M. (author)Understanding the relationship between structure, ionic conductivity, and synthesis is the key to the development of superionic conductors. Here, a series of Li<sub>3-3</sub><sub>x</sub>M<sub>1+</sub><sub>x</sub>Cl<sub>6</sub> (−0.14 < x ≤ 0.5, M = Tb, Dy, Ho, Y, Er, Tm) solid electrolytes with orthorhombic and trigonal structures are...journal article 2022
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Wang, Q. (author), Zhao, C. (author), Wang, Shuwei (author), Wang, Jianlin (author), Liu, M. (author), Ganapathy, S. (author), Bai, Xuedong (author), Li, Baohua (author), Wagemaker, M. (author)Improving the reversibility of lithium metal batteries is one of the challenges in current battery research. This requires better fundamental understanding of the evolution of the lithium deposition morphology, which is very complex due to the various parameters involved in different systems. Here, we clarify the fundamental origins of...journal article 2022
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Liu, M. (author), Wang, C. (author), Zhao, C. (author), van der Maas, E.L. (author), Lin, Kui (author), Arszelewska, Violetta (author), Li, Baohua (author), Ganapathy, S. (author), Wagemaker, M. (author)A key challenge for solid-state-batteries development is to design electrode-electrolyte interfaces that combine (electro)chemical and mechanical stability with facile Li-ion transport. However, while the solid-electrolyte/electrode interfacial area should be maximized to facilitate the transport of high electrical currents on the one hand,...journal article 2021
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Liu, M. (author), Ganapathy, S. (author), Wagemaker, M. (author)ConspectusDriven by the intrinsic safety and potential to achieve higher energy densities, solid-state Li-metal batteries are intensively researched. The ideal solid electrolyte should possess a high conductivity, should have electrochemical stability both toward the Li-metal anode and to high voltage cathodes, should suppress dendrites,...journal article 2021
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Wang, C. (author), Liu, M. (author), Thijs, M.A. (author), Ooms, F.G.B. (author), Ganapathy, S. (author), Wagemaker, M. (author)Li metal batteries are being intensively investigated as a means to achieve higher energy density when compared with standard Li-ion batteries. However, the formation of dendritic and mossy Li metal microstructures at the negative electrode during stripping/plating cycles causes electrolyte decomposition and the formation of electronically...journal article 2021
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Zhao, Chenglong (author), Yao, Zhenpeng (author), Wang, Qidi (author), Li, Haifeng (author), Wang, Jianlin (author), Liu, M. (author), Ganapathy, S. (author), Lu, Yaxiang (author), Wagemaker, M. (author)Layered Na-based oxides with the general composition of NaxTMO2 (TM: transition metal) have attracted significant attention for their high compositional diversity that provides tunable electrochemical performance for electrodes in sodium-ion batteries. The various compositions bring forward complex structural chemistry that is decisive for...journal article 2020
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Liu, M. (author), Wang, C. (author), Cheng, Z. (author), Ganapathy, S. (author), Haverkate, Lucas A. (author), Unnikrishnan, Sandeep (author), Wagemaker, M. (author)Solid-state lithium-metal batteries are considered to be promising candidates for next-generation high-energy density storage devices to power electrical vehicles. Critical challenges for solid-state lithium-metal batteries include the large morphological changes associated with the plating and stripping of lithium metal and decomposition of...journal article 2020
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Cheng, Zhu (author), Liu, M. (author), Ganapathy, S. (author), Li, Z. (author), Zhang, Xiaoyu (author), He, Ping (author), Zhou, Haoshen (author), Wagemaker, M. (author), Li, Chau (author)The influence of space-charge layers on the ionic charge transport over cathode-solid electrolyte interfaces in all-solid-state batteries remains unclear because of the difficulty to unravel it from other contributions to the ion transport over the interfaces. Here, we reveal the effect of the space-charge layers by systematically tuning the...journal article 2020
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Wang, Qidi (author), Yao, Zhenpeng (author), Zhao, Chenglong (author), Verhallen, T.W. (author), Tabor, Daniel P. (author), Liu, M. (author), Ooms, F.G.B. (author), Kang, Feiyu (author), Wagemaker, M. (author)Metallic lithium is a promising anode to increase the energy density of rechargeable lithium batteries. Despite extensive efforts, detrimental reactivity of lithium metal with electrolytes and uncontrolled dendrite growth remain challenging interconnected issues hindering highly reversible Li-metal batteries. Herein, we report a rationally...journal article 2020
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Zhao, Chenglong (author), Liu, Lilu (author), Lu, Yaxiang (author), Wagemaker, M. (author), Chen, Liquan (author), Hu, Yong Sheng (author)Replacing the commonly used nonaqueous liquid electrolytes in rechargeable sodium batteries with polymer solid electrolytes is expected to provide new opportunities to develop safer batteries with higher energy densities. However, this poses challenges related to the interface between the Na-metal anode and polymer electrolytes. Driven by...journal article 2019
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Liu, M. (author), Cheng, Z. (author), Qian, K. (author), Verhallen, T.W. (author), Wang, C. (author), Wagemaker, M. (author)The development of safe and high-performance Li-metal anodes is crucial to meet the demanded increase in energy density of batteries. However, severe reactivity of Li metal with typical electrolytes and dendrite formation leads to a poor cycle life and safety concerns. Therefore, it is essential to develop electrolytes that passivate the...journal article 2019
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Harks, P.P.R.M.L. (author), Verhallen, T.W. (author), George, C. (author), van den Biesen, Jan Karel (author), Liu, Q. (author), Wagemaker, M. (author), Mulder, F.M. (author)The commercial uptake of lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries is undermined by their rapid performance decay and short cycle life. These problems originate from the dissolution of lithium polysulfide in liquid electrolytes, causing charge and active material to shuttle between electrodes. The dynamics of intractable polysulfide migration at...journal article 2019
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Liu, M. (author), Cheng, Z. (author), Ganapathy, S. (author), Wang, C. (author), Haverkate, Lucas A. (author), Tułodziecki, Michał (author), Unnikrishnan, Sandeep (author), Wagemaker, M. (author)In common hybrid solid electrolytes (HSEs), either the ionic conductivity of the polymer electrolyte is enhanced by the presence of a nanosized inorganic filler, which effectively decrease the glass-transition temperature, or the polymer solid electrolyte acts mostly as a flexible host for the inorganic solid electrolyte, the latter providing...journal article 2019
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Yu, C. (author), Ganapathy, S. (author), van Eck, Ernst R H (author), van Eijck, L. (author), Basak, S. (author), Liu, Yanyan (author), Zhang, Long (author), Zandbergen, H.W. (author), Wagemaker, M. (author)Based on its high Li-ion conductivity, argyrodite Li6PS5Br is a promising solid electrolyte for all-solid-state batteries. However, more understanding is required on the relation between the solid electrolyte conductivity and the solid-state battery performance with the argyrodite structure, crystallinity and particle size that depend on the...journal article 2017
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Qian, Kun (author), Tang, Linkai (author), Wagemaker, M. (author), He, Yan Bing (author), Liu, Dongqing (author), Li, Hai (author), Shi, Ruiying (author), Li, Baohua (author), Kang, Feiyu (author)Through a facile sodium sulfide (Na<sub>2</sub>S)-assisted hydrothermal treatment, clean and nondefective surfaces are constructed on micrometer-sized Li<sub>4</sub>Ti<sub>5</sub>O<sub>12</sub> particles. The remarkable improvement of surface quality shows a higher first cycle Coulombic efficiency (≈95%), a significantly enhanced cycling...journal article 2017
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Liu, Zhao (author), Verhallen, T.W. (author), Singh, D.P. (author), Wang, Hongqian (author), Wagemaker, M. (author), Barnett, Scott (author)One of the main goals in lithium ion battery electrode design is to increase the power density. This requires insight in the relation between the complex heterogeneous microstructure existing of active material, conductive additive and electrolyte providing the required electronic and Li-ion transport. FIB-SEM is used to determine the three...journal article 2016