Publications by authors named "B D McCloskey"
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- - Manganese-based materials are promising candidates for next-generation lithium-ion batteries due to their abundance, low cost, and stability, particularly as cathodes.
- - The study demonstrates that slight heating of high-manganese disordered rocksalt cathodes creates nanosized spinel domains, which improve electrochemical properties by eliminating harmful lithiation reactions.
- - The resulting nanostructure allows for better performance, achieving a discharge capacity of 200 mAh g in a material with a primary particle size of about 5 µm, and highlights new methods for building efficient manganese-based cathodes.
Highly concentrated aqueous electrolytes (termed water-in-salt electrolytes, WiSEs) at solid-liquid interfaces are ubiquitous in myriad applications including biological signaling, electrosynthesis, and energy storage. This interface, known as the electrical double layer (EDL), has a different structure in WiSEs than in dilute electrolytes. Here, we investigate how divalent salts [zinc bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide, Zn(TFSI)], as well as mixtures of mono- and divalent salts [lithium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide (LiTFSI) mixed with Zn(TFSI)], affect the short- and long-range structure of the EDL under confinement using a multimodal combination of scattering, spectroscopy, and surface forces measurements.
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