Electrode potentials in electrolytes vary systematically with salt concentration, yet establishing a quantitative connection between electrolyte structure and electrode potential remains a longstanding challenge. Here, we demonstrate that the liquid Madelung energyan atomistically resolved Coulombic descriptor obtaine...
Yusuke Irie, Atsushi Kitada, Long-Jie Liu et al.· Journal of the American Chem...· 0 citations
Lithium metal batteries represent a cornerstone technology for next-generation energy storage systems owing to their exceptional energy density. However, the extreme reactivity of lithium metal drives continuous parasitic reactions with electrolytes, causing interfacial instability and dendritic growth that severely...
Norio Takenaka, Taiga Iwata, T. Bernhard et al.· npj Computational Materials· 2 citations
Aqueous lithium-ion batteries provide a promising route toward safe and sustainable energy storage, yet their energy density is constrained by the narrow electrochemical stability window of aqueous electrolytes. Although high salt concentrations can kinetically extend the cathodic limit of the electrolyte via anion...