Magnesium batteries: Current state of the art, issues and future perspectives

• Rana Mohtadi and
• Fuminori Mizuno

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 1291–1311, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.143

• metal as the layer formed, referred to as SEI or solid electrolyte interface, allows for lithium ion diffusion and was proven critical in preventing further decomposition of the electrolyte in the highly reducing environment during lithium plating [5][6]. The challenge resulting from the electrolyte

The role of oxygen and water on molybdenum nanoclusters for electro catalytic ammonia production

• Jakob G. Howalt and
• Tejs Vegge

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 111–120, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.11

• electrochemical ammonia production with seemingly low Faradaic losses to hydrogen evolution [1][2]. To produce ammonia electrochemically, one can either use a liquid or a solid electrolyte, but these effectively require wet conditions to obtain sufficient protonic conduction [3][4]. The presence of water may give

• production [5][6]. In this paper, the presence of oxygen species, e.g., resulting from a dehydrogenation reaction of residual water from a solid electrolyte or an aqueous electrolyte, will be investigated to understand the implications it has on the catalytic properties for electrochemical ammonia production

Synthesis and electrochemical performance of Li₂Co_1−xM_xPO₄F (M = Fe, Mn) cathode materials

• Nellie R. Khasanova,
• Oleg A. Drozhzhin,
• Stanislav S. Fedotov,
• Darya A. Storozhilova,
• Rodion V. Panin and
• Evgeny V. Antipov

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 860–867, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.97

• electrolyte. The decrease of the irreversible capacity, which leads to the high columbic efficiency, implies that this electrolyte forms a stable solid-electrolyte interface on the electrode surface, but this suggestion should be further investigated and confirmed. A preliminary investigation of the

A facile synthesis of a carbon-encapsulated Fe₃O₄ nanocomposite and its performance as anode in lithium-ion batteries

• Raju Prakash,
• Katharina Fanselau,
• Shuhua Ren,
• Tapan Kumar Mandal,
• Christian Kübel,
• Horst Hahn and
• Maximilian Fichtner

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 699–704, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.79

• → LixFe3O4} [24]. The long plateau corresponds to the conversion reaction and the sloping part of the discharge curve can be assigned to the formation of the solid electrolyte interface (SEI) layer, as well as to the formation of a gel-like film through the reaction of Fe0 and electrolyte [7][8][9][10][11

Large-scale atomistic and quantum-mechanical simulations of a Nafion membrane: Morphology, proton solvation and charge transport

• Pavel V. Komarov,
• Pavel G. Khalatur and
• Alexei R. Khokhlov

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2013, 4, 567–587, doi:10.3762/bjnano.4.65

• –. The hydrated polymer membrane behaves as a solid electrolyte: it swells in the presence of water and passes through into cathode compartment only positively charged protons. On the cathode catalyst, they react exothermically with oxygen molecules and electrons (which have traveled through the external