Chemical disruption of ABA signaling overcomes high-temperature inhibition of seed germination and enhances seed priming responses.

Seed germination is critical to agricultural productivity because low germination rates and/or asynchronous germination negatively affect stand establishment and subsequent yields. Exposure to high temperatures during seed imbibition can decrease both germination synchrony and rates through an ABA-mediated process called thermoinhibition. Methods to reduce thermoinhibition would be agriculturally valuable, particularly with increasing global mean temperatures.

Evaluation of Oxide|Sulfide Heteroionic Interface Stability for Developing Solid-State Batteries with a Lithium-Metal Electrode: The Case of LLZO|LiPSCl and LLZO|LiPS.

Developing solid-state batteries (SSB) with a lithium metal electrode (LME) using only one type of solid electrolyte (SE) is a significant challenge since no SE fits all the requirements imposed by both electrodes. A possible solution is using multilayer SSBs with an LME where the drawbacks of each SE are overcome by using layers of different SEs. However, research on inorganic SE|SE heteroionic interfaces is still quite preliminary, especially regarding oxide|sulfide heteroionic interfaces.

A Simple Method for the Study of Heteroionic Interface Impedances in Solid Electrolyte Multilayer Cells Containing LLZO.

Hybrid battery cells that combine a garnet-type LiLaZrO (LLZO) solid electrolyte with other solid, polymer or liquid electrolytes are increasingly investigated. In such cells with layered electrolytes, ensuring a low-resistive heteroionic interface between neighboring electrolytes is crucial for preventing major additional overpotentials during operation. Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy is frequently used to extract such parameters, usually on multilayer symmetrical model cells that contain the different electrolytes stacked in series.

Heteroionic Interfaces in Hybrid Solid-State Batteries─Current Constriction at the Interface between Different Solid Electrolytes.

The requirements for suitable electrolyte materials in solid-state batteries are diverse and vary greatly depending on their role as separator or as part of the composite cathode. Hybrid cell concepts that incorporate different types of solid electrolytes are considered a promising solution to overcome the limitations of single material classes. However, the kinetics at the heteroionic interface (i.

Influence of Microstructure on the Material Properties of LLZO Ceramics Derived by Impedance Spectroscopy and Brick Layer Model Analysis.

Variants of garnet-type LiLaZrO are being intensively studied as separator materials in solid-state battery research. The material-specific transport properties, such as bulk and grain boundary conductivity, are of prime interest and are mostly investigated by impedance spectroscopy. Data evaluation is usually based on the one-dimensional (1D) brick layer model, which assumes a homogeneous microstructure of identical grains.