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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 ...

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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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75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.

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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Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.

In an unprecedented move, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has begun mass terminations of research grants that fund active scientific projects because they no longer meet “agency priorities”….

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Europe could be a ‘haven’ for US researchers, says ERC president The EU’s research funding bodies are thinking of ways to welcome US scientists and European ex-patriots who might be looking for a more sympathetic place to work now that Donald Trump is in the White ...

Europe as “a haven” for US researcher - The EU’s research funding bodies are thinking of ways to welcome US scientists and European ex-patriots who might be looking for a more sympathetic place to work now that Donald Trump is in the White House
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Trump’s siege of science: how the first 30 days unfolded and what’s next The breakneck pace and devastating impact of the administration’s policy changes has shocked researchers.

Trump’s siege of science: how the first 30 days unfolded & what’s next

Once upon a time leaders believed that science was essential to nation’s security, to better health, to more jobs, to a higher standard of living & to cultural progress
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The @acs.org has deleted its website on diversity, equity, inclusion and respect.

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Live from PyBaMM conference. Delighted to see my name in one of the best and funny slide I have ever seen at conferences #battchat

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Bruno Scrosati (1937–2024) - Nature Nanotechnology Nature Nanotechnology - Bruno Scrosati (1937–2024)

So long, and thanks, Bruno, for the great time we spent together and the many things I learned from you about scientific writing during my PhD. We will miss you ❤️
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Beautifully written obituary from @profdaveleigh.bsky.social in @nature.com

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A great article I really enjoyed reading and editing. I am confident the electrolyte formulation proposed in this paper could boost non-aqueous Na-based #batteries R&D also at TRL > 4. #battchat #battsky #chemsky