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Focus
This topic examines how materials chemistry, electrode architecture, and processing conditions jointly influence battery performance. We study particle and binder behavior during electrode fabrication, chemical and electrochemical stability at electrode-electrolyte interfaces, and structural strategies for uniform ion transport, reversible lithium storage, and stable cycling.
Methods
- Electrode Process Modeling: Analyze stress transfer, particle rearrangement, binder fibrillation, and microstructure formation during electrode fabrication to connect processing conditions with electrode integrity and transport pathways.
- Interface and Transport Analysis: Evaluate reaction energetics, chemical and electrochemical stability, ionic conductivity, lithiophilicity, and mechanical properties to assess coatings, electrolytes, and interfacial materials.
- Electrochemical and Structural Analysis: Examine how electrode and current-collector structures affect ion distribution, lithium plating and stripping, dendrite formation, and cycling reversibility.
What we deliver
- Manufacturing Guidelines: Processing windows and microstructure targets for uniform, mechanically robust, and high-loading electrodes.
- Interface Design Criteria: Material-selection criteria for coatings, electrolytes, and interfacial layers with favorable stability, ion transport, and dendrite-suppression characteristics.
- Stability and Reversibility Strategies: Material and structural design directions for homogeneous lithium deposition, reduced side reactions, and improved cycling stability.
Related Papers
- Multiscale insights enable rational design of solvent-free dry electrode processing for advanced battery electrode fabrication (Communications Materials, 2026)
- Rational material design of chemically inert oxide anode coating layers for lithium metal and all-solid-state batteries (Applied Surface Science Advances, 2025)
- Enhancing electrochemical reversibility in lithium metal batteries through structural engineering of flexible composite current collectors (npj Flexible Electronics, 2025)