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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Bottlenecks in Hamiltonian-Adaptive Resolution Simulation Method for Modeling Interfaces

Hari Haran Sudhakar, Alessandra Serva, Rocio Semino

The Hamiltonian-Adaptive Resolution Simulation (H-AdResS) method allows to combine atomistic and particle-based coarse-grained models in a single simulation box, which makes it ver…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Extending Hamiltonian-Adaptive Resolution Simulation to Interfaces: An Updated LAMMPS Implementation and Application to Porous Solids

Hari Haran Sudhakar, Alessandra Serva, Rocio Semino

Many natural phenomena involve processes that happen simultaneously at different characteristic length- and timescales. Typically, the region where the process of interest happens…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Spatially inhomogeneous delithiation in LiNiO2 positive electrode: the effect of X-rays dose

Francesco La Porta, Laurent Barthe, Anthony Beauvois +4

Operando synchrotron X-ray techniques have become essential tools for investigating rechargeable batteries as they provide real-time insights into electrochemical processes. Howeve…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Nanoscale Mapping of Transition Metal Ordering in Individual LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4 Particles Using 4D-STEM ACOM Technique

Gozde Oney, Fayçal Adrar, Junhao Cao +8

The electrochemical performance of the spinel LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4, a high-voltage positive electrode material for Li-ion batteries, is influenced by the transition metal arrangement in…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Temperature dependent Resonant X-ray Inelastic Scattering at Ni L3-edge for NaNiO2 and LiNiO2

Quentin Jacquet, Kurt Kummer, Marie Guignard +4

LiNiO2 is a promising cathode material for Li-ion battery but its atomic and electronic structure is under debate. Indeed, two sets of Ni-O distances are identified from local stru…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 23 cited

A fundamental correlative spectroscopic study on LixNiO2 and NaNiO2

Quentin Jacquet, Nataliia Mozhzhukhina, Peter N. O. Gillespie +14

The intimate correlation between the local atomic arrangement and electronic states in Li-ion battery cathode materials plays a crucial role in determining their electrochemical pr…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 6 cited

Improved ACOM pattern matching in 4D STEM through adaptive sub pixel peak detection and image reconstruction

Nicolas Folastre, Junhao Cao, Gozde Oney +7

The technique known as 4D-STEM has recently emerged as a powerful tool for the local characterization of crystalline structures in materials, such as cathode materials for Li-ion b…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 14 cited

The Impact of Inter-grain Phases on the Ionic Conductivity of LAGP Solid Electrolyte Prepared by Spark Plasma Sintering

Sorina Cretu, David G. Bradley, Omer Ulas Kudu +9

Li1.5Al0.5Ge1.5(PO4)3 (LAGP) is a promising oxide solid electrolyte for all-solid-state batteries due to its excellent air stability, wide electrochemical stability window and cost…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 72 cited

Advancement of the Homogeneous Background Method for the Computational Simulation of Electrochemical Interfaces

Arthur Hagopian, Marie-Liesse Doublet, Jean-Sébastien Filhol +1

Computational studies of electrochemical interfaces based on density-functional theory (DFT) play an increasingly important role in present research on electrochemical processes fo…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 51 cited

Phase Stability and Sodium-Vacancy Orderings in a NaSICON Electrode

Ziliang Wang, Sunkyu Park, Zeyu Deng +7

We elucidate the thermodynamics of sodium (Na) intercalation into the sodium super-ionic conductor (NaSICON)-type electrode, NaV(PO), for promising Na-ion batteries…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 41 cited

Carbon-carbon supercapacitors: Beyond the average pore size or how electrolyte confinement and inaccessible pores affect the capacitance

El Hassane Lahrar, Patrice Simon, Céline Merlet

Carbon-carbon supercapacitors are high power electrochemical energy storage systems which store energy through reversible ion adsorption at the electrode-electrolyte interface. Due…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 223 cited

Bridging Nano and Micro-scale X-ray Tomography for Battery Research by Leveraging Artificial Intelligence

Jonathan Scharf, Mehdi Chouchane, Donal P. Finegan +11

X-ray Computed Tomography (X-ray CT) is a well-known non-destructive imaging technique where contrast originates from the materials' absorption coefficients. Novel battery characte…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 57 cited

Effect of the metallicity on the capacitance of gold - aqueous sodium chloride interfaces

Alessandra Serva, Laura Scalfi, Benjamin Rotenberg +1

Electrochemistry experiments have established that the capacitance of electrode-electrolyte interfaces is much larger for good metals such as gold and platinum than for carbon-base…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 33 cited

Computational Amperometry of Nanoscale Capacitors in Molecular Simulations

Thomas Dufils, Michiel Sprik, Mathieu Salanne

In recent years, constant applied potential molecular dynamics has allowed to study the structure and dynamics of the electrochemical double-layer of a large variety of nanoscale c…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 23 cited

Crystallographic and magnetic structures of the VI and LiVI van der Waals compounds

Thomas Marchandier, Nicolas Dubouis, François Fauth +4

Two-dimensional (2D) layered magnetic materials are generating a great amount of interest for the next generation of electronic devices thanks to their remarkable properties associ…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 30 cited

Local distortions and dynamics in hydrated Y-doped BaZrO

Amangeldi Torayev, Luke Sperrin, Maria A. Gomez +3

Y-doped BaZrO is a promising proton conductor for intermediate temperature solid oxide fuel cells. In this work, a combination of static DFT calculations and DFT based molecula…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 61 cited

Ionic liquids under confinement: From systematic variations of the ion and pore sizes towards an understanding of structure and dynamics in complex porous carbons

El Hassane Lahrar, Anouar Belhboub, Patrice Simon +1

We use molecular simulations of an ionic liquid in contact with a range of nanoporous carbons to investigate correlations between ion size, pore size, pore topology and properties…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 83 cited

A semiclassical Thomas-Fermi model to tune the metallicity of electrodes in molecular simulations

Laura Scalfi, Thomas Dufils, Kyle Reeves +2

Spurred by the increasing needs in electrochemical energy storage devices, the electrode/electrolyte interface has received a lot of interest in recent years. Molecular dynamics si…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 22 cited

Improved electro-grafting of nitropyrene onto onion-like carbon via in situ electrochemical reduction and polymerization: Tailoring redox energy density of the supercapacitor positive electrode

Bihag Anothumakkool, Yuman Sayed-Ahmad-Baraza, Chris Ewels +5

Herein, we report a improved method for the physical grafting of 1-nitropyrene (Pyr-NO2) onto highly graphitized carbon onion. This is achieved through a lowering of the onset pote…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 40 cited

Ion-ion correlations across and between electrified graphene layers

Trinidad Mendez-Morales, Mario Burbano, Matthieu Haefele +2

When an ionic liquid adsorbs onto a porous electrode, its ionic arrangement is deeply modified due to a screening of the Coulombic interactions by the metallic surface and by the c…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 387 cited

Biredox ionic liquids with solid-like redox density in the liquid state for high-energy supercapacitors

Eléonore Mourad, Laura Coustan, Pierre Lannelongue +6

Kinetics of electrochemical reactions are several orders of magnitude slower in solids than in liquids as a result of the much lower ion diffusivity. Yet, the solid state maximizes…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 443 cited

Singlet Oxygen Generation as a Major Cause for Parasitic Reactions during Cycling of Aprotic Lithium-Oxygen Batteries

Nika Mahne, Bettina Schafzahl, Christian Leypold +10

Non-aqueous metal-oxygen batteries depend critically on the reversible formation/decomposition of metal oxides on cycling. Irreversible parasitic reactions cause poor rechargeabili…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 92 cited

Capacitance of Nanoporous Carbon-Based Supercapacitors is a Trade-Off Between the Concentration and the Separability of the Ions

Ryan Burt, Konrad Breitsprecher, Barbara Daffos +6

Nanoporous carbon-based supercapacitors store electricity through adsorption of ions from the electrolyte at the surface of the electrodes. Room temperature ionic liquids, which sh…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 34 cited

Confinement Effects on an Electron Transfer Reaction in Nanoporous Carbon Electrodes

Zhujie Li, Guillaume Jeanmairet, Trinidad Méndez-Morales +3

Nanoconfinement generally leads to drastic effect on the physical and chemical properties of ionic liquids. Here we investigate how the electrochemical reactivity in such media may…