Nature Communications (Oct 2017)

Designing solid-liquid interphases for sodium batteries

  • Snehashis Choudhury,
  • Shuya Wei,
  • Yalcin Ozhabes,
  • Deniz Gunceler,
  • Michael J. Zachman,
  • Zhengyuan Tu,
  • Jung Hwan Shin,
  • Pooja Nath,
  • Akanksha Agrawal,
  • Lena F. Kourkoutis,
  • Tomas A. Arias,
  • Lynden A. Archer

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00742-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The chemistry at the interface between electrolyte and electrode plays a critical role in determining battery performance. Here, the authors show that a NaBr enriched solid–electrolyte interphase can lower the surface diffusion barrier for sodium ions, enabling stable electrodeposition.