Nature Communications (Jan 2023)

High entropy liquid electrolytes for lithium batteries

  • Qidi Wang,
  • Chenglong Zhao,
  • Jianlin Wang,
  • Zhenpeng Yao,
  • Shuwei Wang,
  • Sai Govind Hari Kumar,
  • Swapna Ganapathy,
  • Stephen Eustace,
  • Xuedong Bai,
  • Baohua Li,
  • Marnix Wagemaker

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36075-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Electrolytes, function as an ion conducting membrane between battery electrodes, are essential for rechargeable batteries. Here, the authors report high-entropy liquid electrolytes and reveal substantial impact of the increasing entropy on lithium-ion solvation structures for highly reversible lithium batteries.