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Inside Back Cover: Electrolytes Ageing in Lithium‐ion Batteries: A Mechanistic Study from Picosecond to Long Timescales (ChemSusChem 21/2015)
Author(s) -
Ortiz Daniel,
Jiménez Gordon Isabel,
Baltaze JeanPierre,
HernandezAlba Oscar,
Legand Solène,
Dauvois Vincent,
Si Larbi Gregory,
Schmidhammer Uli,
Marignier JeanLouis,
Martin JeanFrédéric,
Belloni Jacqueline,
Mostafavi Mehran,
Le Caër Sophie
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
chemsuschem
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.412
H-Index - 157
eISSN - 1864-564X
pISSN - 1864-5631
DOI - 10.1002/cssc.201501435
Subject(s) - electrolyte , ageing , cover (algebra) , lithium (medication) , battery (electricity) , degradation (telecommunications) , materials science , environmental science , nanotechnology , computer science , chemistry , engineering , mechanical engineering , telecommunications , physics , electrode , medicine , power (physics) , genetics , biology , endocrinology , quantum mechanics
Ageing of electrolytes used in batteries is a major issue for researchers and industry, as it represents an important cost in the development of new batteries. Past failures to adequately characterize the degradation processes of the electrolyte have led to potentially disastrous safety issues. It is, therefore, paramount to have an in‐depth understanding of the underlying ageing phenomena. On the Inside Back Cover picture, we show that radiolysis techniques can induce similar mechanisms in the electrolyte, allowing for an accelerated assessment of the ageing phenomena within hours. More details can be found in the Full paper by Ortiz et al. on page 3605 in Issue 21, 2015 (DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201500641).