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Nanoengineering of non-aqueous liquid electrolyte solutions for future lithium metal batteries - Nature Nanotechnology This Review provides insights into the nanoscale physicochemical and electrochemical processes in non-aqueous electrolyte solutions for lithium metal batteries and explores emerging research direction...

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Superionic composite electrolytes with continuously perpendicular-aligned pathways for pressure-less all-solid-state lithium batteries - Nature Nanotechnology Highly ionically conductive and flexible solid-state composite battery electrolytes are engineered by alternately stacking inorganic LixMyPS3 (M = Cd or Mn) nanosheets with lithium-containing organic ...

Composite solid-state battery electrolytes showing ionic conductivity ranging from 6.1 to 10.2 mS/cm at 25 °C have just been reported in the first 2026 battery research article published in @natnano.nature.com…check this out 😎

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Is there a way to optimize the synthetic process of transition metal-doped Ni-rich battery positive electrodes? 🤔🔎⚗️🔋

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Nanoscopic strain evolution in single-crystal battery positive electrodes - Nature Nanotechnology This study elucidates nanoscopic strain evolution in single-crystal Ni-rich positive electrodes, demonstrating that mechanical failure results from lattice distortions, and redefines the roles of coba...

Is the role of Co and Mn the same in single-crystal and polycrystalline Ni-rich battery positive electrode active materials? 🔎🤔🔋

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Sustainable functional ceramics - Nature Nanotechnology This Review establishes a roadmap to improve the sustainability of functional ceramics through a holistic approach that combines low-energy and low-CO2 production methods, recycling strategies and sup...

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Nanoengineered aqueous-hydrotrope hybrid liquid electrolyte solutions for efficient zinc batteries across a wide temperature range - Nature Nanotechnology Aqueous-hydrotrope hybrid liquid electrolyte solutions enable overcoming the electrochemical stability window and operational temperature limits of aqueous electrolyte solutions in secondary zinc-base...

Are you struggling to understand how hydrophobic and hydrotrope additives in aqueous #electrolyte solutions for zinc-based #batteries function? 🔋💦🔎🤔

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I am in #Singapore for the #IBA2025 and walking around the Marina Bay I found this cool example of applied #nanotechnolgy R&D 🇸🇬😎

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Gas-mediated defect engineering in earth-abundant Mn-rich layered oxides for non-aqueous sodium-based batteries - Nature Nanotechnology This study demonstrates how CO2 directs defect control during the synthesis of Mn-rich sodium layered oxides, improving the stability and performance of earth-abundant positive electrode materials in ...

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Are you working on graphite/silicon electrodes for fast-charging Li-ion #batteries and want to understand how these #electrodes evolve during lithiation/delithiation cycling? 🤔

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Mesoscale dynamics of electrosorbed ions in fast-charging carbon-based nanoporous electrodes - Nature Nanotechnology This study demonstrates how the mesostructure of nanoporous carbon electrodes influences ion dynamics, providing mechanistic insights and strategies for the technological advancement of fast-charging ...

Are you working with #supercapacitors or fast-charging electrochemical #energy storage systems and want to understand the influence of nanoporous carbon electrodes on charge storage performance?

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Today was a good day to be at the @springernature.com office in Heidelberger Platz, Berlin, to celebrate the 10 years of the company with some delicious vegan cupcakes 🎉 🎂 🎇 🎊

Great #openaccess research article unveiling essential topics of industrial research for lithium #batteries 🔋⚡

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Battery research needs more reliable, representative and reproducible synchrotron characterizations - Nature Nanotechnology Synchrotron techniques can probe battery materials and devices at unprecedented scales of time and space, providing in-depth mechanistic understanding. However, the lack of standardization in synchrot...

If the question “Are you sure the beam intensity during synchrotron measurements does not change the electrochemistry of the system?” 🤔 comes to mind while reading battery research articles, you should read the latest @natnano.nature.com comment 😎🔋🩻

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Tiny particles of plastic are everywhere today, but a discovery in a museum collection proves that this isn’t a new phenomenon

I agree. If number of cycles are reported, all the cell's specifications must be reorted too.

From small batteries to big claims - Nature Nanotechnology In battery research, the areas of the electrodes and cell dimensions affect the energy storage performance. Here the authors discuss the factors that influence the reliability of electrochemical measu...

If the question "Are you sure you aren’t making big performance claims despite testing small-scale batteries?" 🤔 comes to mind while reading battery research articles, you should consider reading the latest @natnano.nature.com battery analysis 😎🔋

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Li+(ionophore) nanoclusters engineered aqueous/non-aqueous biphasic electrolyte solutions for high-potential lithium-based batteries - Nature Nanotechnology Aqueous and non-aqueous Li-based electrolyte solutions have narrow electrochemical stability windows, which hinder the operation of batteries at high cell potentials. Here, to circumvent this limitati...

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If you are curious about understanding how the tailoring of ionic species in biphasic electrolytes can improve Li-based batteries, do not miss this great research article! 💦🔋⚡

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Investigating the effect of heterogeneities across the electrode|multiphase polymer electrolyte interfaces in high-potential lithium batteries - Nature Nanotechnology X-ray synchrotron measurements reveal heterogeneities at electrode|electrolyte interfaces of lithium metal batteries operating at high potentials. Here the authors demonstrate the rearrangement of ion...

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If you are curious about understanding how phase separation in polymeric composite electrolytes influences Li metal battery operation, do not miss this great research article! 🔬🔋⚡

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We polled Nature readers to ask if they were thinking of leaving the US for jobs abroad. Three-quarters of them (who said they were US-based scientists) said yes. 🧪

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The March 2025 issue of @naturenano.bsky.social (one of the most multidisciplinary journals in the @natureportfolio.nature.com
at @springernature.com ) is now live 🥳🥳, and we have chosen a #battery #research article for the cover 🔋🤩

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The image on the cover shows artistic representation of the formation process of a sodium fluoride interphase on a sodium metal surface by the reduction of fluorinated sodium salts solvated by a presalt solvent. Image: Xi Chen, University of Maryland. Cover design: Vanitha Selvarajan. Original article: Li, AM., Zavalij, P.Y., Omenya, F. et al. Salt-in-presalt electrolyte solutions for high-potential non-aqueous sodium metal batteries. Nat. Nanotechnol. 20, 388–396 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-024-01848-2 Abstract Room-temperature non-aqueous sodium metal batteries are viable candidates for cost-effective and safe electrochemical energy storage. However, they show low specific energy and poor cycle life as the use of conventional organic-based non-aqueous electrolyte solutions enables the formation of interphases that cannot prevent degradations at the positive and negative electrodes. Here, to promote the formation of inorganic NaF-rich interphases on both negative and positive electrodes, we propose the salt-in-presalt (SIPS) electrolyte formulation strategy. In SIPS, sodium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide (NaFSI) salt is dissolved in the liquid precursor of the sodium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide (NaTFSI) salt, that is, N,N-dimethyltrifluoromethane-sulfonamide, called PreTFSI. The prepared 0.5 M NaFSI in PreTFSI (SIPS5) electrolyte solution shows an electrochemical stability up to 6.7 V versus Na|Na+ and enables a Na stripping/plating average Coulombic efficiency of 99.7% at 2.0 mA cm−2 and 4.0 mAh cm−2 in Na||Al cell configuration. By testing SIPS5 in Na metal and ‘anode-less’ coin and pouch cell configurations using NaNi0.6Mn0.2Co0.2O2 or sulfurized polyacrylonitrile as positive electrode active materials, we demonstrate the ability of the SIPS strategy to deliver improved specific discharge capacity and capacity retentions at high cell potentials and moderate applied specific currents for cell cycle life up to 1,000 cycles.

In our March 2025 issue,

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- Non-aqueous sodium metal batteries,
- Imaging nonlinear optics in van der Waals waveguides,
- Crystalline perovskites for µ-LED's,
- Time-shared optical tweezer microrheology,
- AND-gated Protease-activated nanosensors, and much more.

🔋 The European Union will make 1.8 billion euros ($1.92 billion) available to help secure supply chains for battery raw materials.

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