Nature Communications (Dec 2018)

Aligning academia and industry for unified battery performance metrics

  • Zhan Lin,
  • Tiefeng Liu,
  • Xinping Ai,
  • Chengdu Liang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07599-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 5

Abstract

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Abstract Exceptional performance reported for battery materials and devices in the scientific literature is often measured under conditions that are not aligned with practical applications. Aiming to bridge the gap between academia and industry, this Comment advocates the best practices for gauging performance and proposes guidelines on measurements with respect to a list of key metrics such as capacity, cyclability, Coulombic efficiency and electrolyte consumption.