Towards high throughput screening of electrochemical stability of battery electrolytes

Nanotechnology

Volumn 26, Issue 35, 2015, Pages

  Borodin, Oleg ^a   Olguin, Marco ^a   Spear, Carrie E ^a   Leiter, Kenneth W ^a   Knap, Jaroslaw ^a  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

battery; electrolyte; quantum chemistry

Indexed keywords

CARBONATION; CATHODES; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DESIGN FOR TESTABILITY; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; ELECTROCHEMICAL PROPERTIES; ELECTRODES; ELECTROLYTES; ETHYLENE; LITHIUM BATTERIES; MANGANESE; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; MOLECULAR OXYGEN; MOLECULES; OXIDATION; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SOLVENTS; STABILITY; THROUGHPUT; TRANSITION METALS;

BATTERY; ELECTROCHEMICAL POTENTIAL; ELECTROCHEMICAL STABILITIES; FLUOROETHYLENE CARBONATES; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HIGH VOLTAGE SPINEL CATHODES; REORGANIZATION ENERGIES; SCREENING PROCEDURES;

REDUCTION;

EID: 84939185655     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: 13616528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/26/35/354003     Document Type: Article

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