Cathode 'Defects' Improve Battery Performance
Wednesday, February 5, 2020 - 10:40
in Physics & Chemistry
Chemists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have made a new finding about battery performance that points to a different strategy for optimizing cathode materials. Their research, published in Chemistry of Materials and featured in ACS Editors' Choice, focuses on controlling the amount of structural defects in the cathode material.