Design principles for solid-state lithium superionic conductors

Nature Materials

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1026-1031

  Wang, Yan ^a   Richards, William Davidson ^a   Ong, Shyue Ping ^a,b   Miara, Lincoln J ^c   Kim, Jae Chul ^a   Mo, Yifei ^a,d   Ceder, Gerbrand ^a,e,f  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^e University of California Berkeley   (United States)

^f LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC BATTERIES; ELECTROLYTES; IONIC CONDUCTION; IONS; LITHIUM; LITHIUM ALLOYS; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; SOLID ELECTROLYTES;

BODY-CENTRED CUBIC; CONDUCTING MATERIALS; ELECTROCHEMICAL STABILITIES; FAST-ION CONDUCTORS; LIQUID ELECTROLYTES; ORGANIC ELECTROLYTE; SUPER IONIC CONDUCTORS; TETRAHEDRAL SITES;

LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES;

EID: 84942365540     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat4369     Document Type: Article

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