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Avvaru, Venkata Sai, Tianyu Li, Gi‐Hyeok Lee, Young‐Woon Byeon, Krishna Prasad Koirala, Otavio Jovino Marques, Bernardine L. D Rinkel, Yanbao Fu, David Milsted, Seonghun Jeong, Nathan J Szymanski, Martin Kunz, Finn Babbe, Eunryeol Lee, Vincent S Battaglia, Bryan D McCloskey, Johanna Nelson Weker, Chongmin Wang, Wanli Yang, Raphaële J Clément, and Haegyeom Kim."Alternative Solid‐State Synthesis Route for Highly Fluorinated Disordered Rock‐Salt Cathode Materials for High‐Energy Lithium‐Ion Batteries."Advanced Energy Materials 15.28 (2025). DOI

Kim, Haegyeom, KyuJung Jun, Nathan J Szymanski, Venkata Sai Avvaru, Zijian Cai, Matthew J Crafton, Gi‐Hyeok Lee, Stephen E Trask, Finn Babbe, Young‐Woon Byeon, Peichen Zhong, Donghun Lee, Byungchun Park, Wangmo Jung, Bryan D McCloskey, and Wanli Yang."Screening and Development of Sacrificial Cathode Additives for Lithium‐Ion Batteries."Advanced Energy Materials 15.21 (2025). DOI

Jin, Xiuyu, Ziting Zhu, Qiusu Miao, Chen Fang, Di Huang, Raynald Giovine, Linfeng Chen, Chaochao Dun, Jeffrey Urban, Yanbao Fu, Defu Li, Katie Liu, Yunfei Wang, Tianyu Zhu, Chenhui Zhu, Wei Tong, and Gao Liu."Green Electrode Processing Enabled by Fluoro‐Free Multifunctional Binders for Lithium‐Ion Batteries."Advanced Science 12.17 (2025). DOI

Sari, Bengisu, Medha Dandu, Nathan Wood, Jacob Hochhalter, Amalya C Johnson, Marca M Doeff, Fang Liu, Archana Raja, Mary C Scott, Rohan Dhall, and Roseanne Warren."Facile Tensile Testing Platform for In Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy of Nanomaterials."Advanced Materials Interfaces 12.7 (2025). DOI

Alghalayini, Maher, Daniel Collins-Wildman, Kenneth Higa, Armina Guevara, Vincent S Battaglia, Marcus M Noack, and Stephen J Harris."Machine-learning-based efficient parameter space exploration for energy storage systems."Cell Reports Physical Science 6.4 (2025) 102543. DOI

Kulka, Andrzej, Katarzyna Walczak, Justyna Płotek, Boyang Fu, Anindityo Arifiadi, Konrad Świerczek, Anna Hanc, Marta Kasprzyk, Muhammad Ihsan Ul Haq, Gi-Hyeok Lee, Wanli Yang, Martin Winter, Johannes Kasnatscheew, and Robert Kostecki."Evaluating the influence of surface reconstruction layers in Li/Mn-Rich layered oxide (LMR) electrodes on the anionic redox reactions and electrochemical properties of LMR || Li Cells."Energy Storage Materials 75 (2025) 104001. DOI

Collins-Wildman, Daniel, Kenneth Higa, and Vincent S Battaglia."Zinc dendrite removal in a nickel-zinc battery with flow-through electrodes."Journal of Power Sources 628 (2025) 235737. DOI

Karapin-Springorum, Lukas, Asia Sarycheva, Andrew Dopilka, Hyungyeon Cha, Muhammad Ihsan-Ul-Haq, Jonathan M Larson, and Robert Kostecki."An infrared, Raman, and X-ray database of battery interphase components."Scientific Data 12.1 (2025). DOI

Nam, Ki-Hun, Zhongling Wang, Jessica Luo, Juhyeon Ahn, Zachary R Mansley, Seungkyu Kim, Myoung Hwan Oh, Mary C Scott, Armando Rodriguez-Campos, Cynthia Huang, Marie F Millares, Alexis Pace, Lu Ma, Steven Ehrlich, Jianming Bai, Yimei Zhu, Esther S Takeuchi, Amy C Marschilok, Shan Yan, Kenneth J Takeuchi, and Marca M Doeff."Compositionally Complex Spinel Oxides as Conversion Anodes for Lithium-Ion Batteries."ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 17.15 (2025) 22529-22545. DOI

Haddad, Andrew Z, Akanksha K Menon, Ravindra Revanur, Jennifer Klare, Jeffrey Urban, and Robert Kostecki."Forward Osmosis Desalination Using Thermoresponsive Ionic Liquids: Bench-Scale Demonstration and Cost Analysis."Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research 64.15 (2025) 7810-7817. DOI

Go, Wooseok, Marca M Doeff, and Michael C Tucker."Investigation of MgO additives on microstructure and properties of thin LLZO electrolytes for all-solid-state batteries."Journal of Materials Chemistry A 13.12 (2025) 8835-8842. DOI

Jagad, Harsh D, Stephen J Harris, Brian W Sheldon, and Yue Qi."Ion Size Effects on the Thermodynamic, Kinetic, and Mechanical Properties during Ion Exchange in Solid-State Electrolytes."Chemistry of Materials 37.20 (2025) 8165-8177. DOI

Xiong, Shuoyan, Alistair J Sterling, Nikolay V Tkachenko, Rhea-Donna Reyes, Hsinhan Tsai, Jaeheon Lee, Yu Chen, Yang Wang, Matthew N Dods, David Lu, Ziting Zhu, Jonas Börgel, Jeong Won Kim, Abigail J Schmeiser, Junyang Meng, Hiroyasu Furukawa, Aaron W Peters, Bryan D McCloskey, Jeffrey A Reimer, Simon C Weston, Martin Head-Gordon, and Jeffrey R Long."Mechanistic Studies of Oxidative Degradation in Diamine-Appended Metal–Organic Frameworks Exhibiting Cooperative CO₂ Capture."Journal of the American Chemical Society 147.29 (2025) 25761-25778. DOI

Liu, Yiming, Minhao Xiao, Xiaochuan Huang, Jane Park, Matthew E Hoffman, Yuren Feng, Alicia Kyoungjin An, Qilin Li, Eric Hoek, and David Jassby."Mitigating CaCO3 crystal nucleation and growth through continuous ion displacement via alternating electric fields."Nature Communications 16.1 (2025). DOI

Murugan, Vivekanantha, Hoon-Hee Ryu, and Guoying Chen."Ni-Rich Li[Ni_xMn_yCo_1–x–y]O₂ Single Crystals as Superior Fast Charge Cathodes for Lithium-Ion Batteries."ACS Energy Letters 10.5 (2025) 2350-2358. DOI

Dopilka, Andrew, Jonathan M Larson, and Robert Kostecki."Operando Infrared Nanospectroscopy of the Silicon/Electrolyte Interface during Initial Stages of Solid-Electrolyte-Interphase Layer Formation."ACS Energy Letters 10.1 (2025) 410-419. DOI

Chen, Linfeng, Chenyang Li, Sahand Adibnia, Sizhuo Yang, Jialu Li, Erika Samolova, Andrew Dopilka, Zhiyuan Huang, Raynald Giovine, Xander B Fleming, Jinghua Guo, Andrew Z Haddad, Robert Kostecki, Wei Chen, Chaochao Dun, and Jeffrey J Urban."Ultraselective sequestration of Li ⁺ and Mg ²⁺ from brines via a reusable polyoxoniobate-based ion sponge."Science Advances 11.49 (2025). DOI

Theibault, Monica, Dennis Nordlund, Chaochao Dun, Jeffrey Urban, Wei Tong, and Marca M Doeff."Understanding the Mn dissolution mechanism in rock salt-type Li₄Mn₂O₅ cathodes."Journal of Materials Chemistry A 13.26 (2025) 21009-21020. DOI

Yang, Lin, Zhewen Zhu, Yitian Feng, Daxian Zuo, Shi Huang, Yao Yang, Lihui Zhou, Stephen J Harris, Lin Zeng, Yizhou Zhu, and Jiayu Wan."Unveiling phase evolution of complex oxides toward precise solid-state synthesis."Science Advances 11.30 (2025). DOI

Zeng, Yuqiang, Buyi Zhang, Yanbao Fu, Fengyu Shen, Qiye Zheng, Divya Chalise, Ruijiao Miao, Sumanjeet Kaur, Sean D Lubner, Michael C Tucker, Vincent S Battaglia, Christopher Dames, and Ravi S Prasher."Extreme fast charging of commercial Li-ion batteries via combined thermal switching and self-heating approaches."Nature Communications 14.1 (2023). DOI

Zhang, Buyi, Bei Fan, Zhi Huang, Kenneth Higa, Vincent S Battaglia, and Ravi S Prasher."A Review of Dispersion Film Drying Research."Journal of Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage 20.3 (2023). DOI

Bergstrom, Helen K, Kara D Fong, David M Halat, Carl A Karouta, Hasan C Celik, Jeffrey A Reimer, and Bryan D McCloskey."Ion correlation and negative lithium transference in polyelectrolyte solutions."Chemical Science 14.24 (2023) 6546 - 6557. DOI

Huang, Tzu‐Yang, Zijian Cai, Matthew J Crafton, Lori A Kaufman, Zachary M Konz, Helen K Bergstrom, Elyse A Kedzie, Han‐Ming Hao, Gerbrand Ceder, and Bryan D McCloskey."Quantitative Decoupling of Oxygen‐Redox and Manganese‐Redox Voltage Hysteresis in a Cation‐Disordered Rock Salt Cathode."Advanced Energy Materials 13.21 (2023). DOI

Jun, KyuJung, Lori A Kaufman, Wangmo Jung, Byungchun Park, Chiho Jo, Taegu Yoo, Donghun Lee, Byungju Lee, Bryan D McCloskey, Haegyeom Kim, and Gerbrand Ceder."Understanding the Irreversible Reaction Pathway of the Sacrificial Cathode Additive Li6CoO4."Advanced Energy Materials (2023). DOI

Xu, Jianan, Lori A Kaufman, Francisco C.Robles Hernández, Atin Pramanik, Ganguli Babu, Jagjit Nanda, Bryan D McCloskey, and Pulickel M Ajayan."Effects of Ball Milling on the Electrochemical Capacity and Interfacial Stability of Li 2MnO3 Cathode Materials."ACS Applied Energy Materials 6.9 (2023) 5026 - 5036. DOI