Development and Application of New NMR Methods for Studying Interphases and Interfaces in Batteries

Project Information

BATNMR

Grant agreement ID: 835073

DOI 10.3030/835073

EC signature date 11 June 2019

Start date 1 October 2019

End date 30 September 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 3 498 219,00

EU contribution € 3 498 219,00

Coordinated by

THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
United Kingdom

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (37)

Probing and Interpreting the Porosity and Tortuosity Evolution of Li-O 2 Cathodes on Discharge through a Combined Experimental and Theoretical Approach

Author(s): Amangeldi Torayev, Simon Engelke, Zeliang Su, Lauren E. Marbella, Vincent De Andrade, Arnaud Demortière, Pieter C. M. M. Magusin, Céline Merlet, Alejandro A. Franco, and Clare P. Grey
Published in: The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2021, ISSN 1932-7447
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.17863/cam.64888

Local Distortions and Dynamics in Hydrated Y-Doped BaZrO3.

Author(s): Amangeldi Torayev; Luke Sperrin; Maria A. Gomez; John A. Kattirtzi; Céline Merlet; Céline Merlet; Céline Merlet; Clare P. Grey
Published in: Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Issue 1, 2021, ISSN 1932-7447
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.17863/cam.54388

Identifying and preventing degradation in flavin mononucleotide-based redox flow batteries via NMR and EPR spectroscopy

Author(s): Hey, Dominic; Jethwa, Rajesh B; Farag, Nadia L; Rinkel, Bernardine LD; Zhao, Evan Wenbo; Grey, Clare P
Published in: Nature Communications, 14, Issue 4, 2023, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-40649-4

Probing and Interpreting the Porosity and Tortuosity Evolution of Li-O

Author(s): Amangeldi, Torayev; Simon, Engelke; Zeliang, Su; Lauren E, Marbella; Vincent, De Andrade; Arnaud, Demortière; Pieter C M M, Magusin; Céline, Merlet; Alejandro A, Franco; Clare P, Grey
Published in: The Journal of Physical Chemistry. C, Nanomaterials and Interfaces, Issue 3, 2021, ISSN 1932-7447
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c10417

Selective NMR observation of the SEI–metal interface by dynamic nuclear polarisation from lithium metal

Author(s): Michael A. Hope, Bernardine L. D. Rinkel, Anna B. Gunnarsdóttir, Katharina Märker, Svetlana Menkin, Subhradip Paul, Ivan V. Sergeyev, Clare P. Grey
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 11/1, 2020, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-16114-x

Local Distortions and Dynamics in Hydrated Y-Doped BaZrO 3

Author(s): Amangeldi Torayev, Luke Sperrin, Maria A. Gomez, John A. Kattirtzi, Céline Merlet, Clare P. Grey
Published in: The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Issue 124/30, 2020, Page(s) 16689-16701, ISSN 1932-7447
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c04594

Electrolyte oxidation pathways in lithium-ion batteries

Author(s): Israel Temprano; Bernardine L. D. Rinkel; Clare P. Grey; David S. Hall
Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Issue 1, 2020, ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.17863/cam.59530

Operando monitoring of single-particle kineticstate-of-charge heterogeneities and cracking inhigh-rate Li-ion anodes

Author(s): Merryweather, A. J., Jacquet, Q., Emge, S. P., Schnedermann, C., Rao, A., & Grey, C. P. (2022).
Published in: Nature Materials, 2022, ISSN 1476-1122
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41563-022-01324-z

Operando visualization of kinetically induced lithium heterogeneities in single-particle layered Ni-rich cathodes

Author(s): C. Xu, A.J. Merryweather, S.S. Pandurangi, Z. Lun, D.S. Hall, V.S. Deshpande, N.A. Fleck, C. Schnedermann, A. Rao, C.P. Grey,
Published in: Joule, 2022, ISSN 2542-4351
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.joule.2022.09.008

Sodium Borates: Expanding the Electrolyte Selection for Sodium-Ion Batteries

Author(s): Dr. Darren M. C. Ould, Dr. Svetlana Menkin, Holly E. Smith, Victor Riesgo-Gonzalez, Dr. Erlendur Jónsson, Dr. Christopher A. O'Keefe, Dr. Fazlil Coowar, Dr. Jerry Barker, Dr. Andrew D. Bond, Prof. Clare P. Grey, Prof. Dominic S. Wright
Published in: Agnew Chem Int. Ed. Engl., 2022, ISSN 1433-7851
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/ange.202202133

Surface reduction in lithium- and manganese-rich layered cathodes for lithium ion batteries drives voltage decay.

Author(s): Bo Wen; Farheen N. Sayed; Wesley M. Dose; Jędrzej K. Morzy; Yeonguk Son; Supreeth Nagendran; Caterina Ducati; Clare P. Grey; Michael F. L. De Volder
Published in: Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2022, ISSN 2050-7488
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.17863/cam.88809

Insights into soft short circuit-based degradation of lithium metal batteries

Author(s): Svetlana Menkin; Jana B. Fritzke; Rebecca Larner; Cas de Leeuw; Yoonseong Choi; Anna B. Gunnarsdóttir; Clare P. Grey
Published in: Crossref, Issue 2, 2023, ISSN 1359-6640
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d3fd00101f

Engineering considerations for practical lithium–air electrolytes

Author(s): Ellison, James HJ; Grey, Clare P
Published in: Crossref, Issue 2, 2024, ISSN 1359-6640
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d3fd00091e

Chemo-Mechanical Analysis of Lithiation/Delithiation of Ni-rich Single Crystals

Author(s): S.S. Pandurangi, D.S. Hall, C.P. Grey, V.S. Deshpande, N.A. Fleck.
Published in: Journal of The Electrochemical Society, volume 170, 2023, ISSN 0013-4651
Publisher: Electrochemical Society, Inc.
DOI: 10.1149/1945-7111/acd47e

On the Solvation of Redox Mediators and Implications for their Reactivity in Li-Air Batteries

Author(s): Erlendur Jónsson, James H. J. Ellison, Evelyna Wang, Vera Kunz, Tao Liu, Israel Temprano, Clare P. Grey
Published in: Journal of The Electrochemical Society, Issue 168/3, 2021, Page(s) 030529, ISSN 0013-4651
Publisher: Electrochemical Society, Inc.
DOI: 10.1149/1945-7111/abeb26

Graphite Anodes for Li-Ion Batteries: An Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Investigation

Author(s): Insinna, Teresa; Bassey, Euan N; Märker, Katharina; Collauto, Alberto; Barra, Anne-Laure; Grey, Clare P
Published in: "Chemistry of Materials, 2023, 35 (14), pp.5497-5511. ⟨10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c00860⟩", Issue 3, 2023, ISSN 0897-4756
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c00860

Unlocking Li superionic conductivity in face-centred cubic oxides via face-sharing configurations

Author(s): Y. Chen, Z. Lun, X. Zhao, K.P. Koirala, L. Li, Y. Sun, C.A. O'Keefe, X. Yang, Z. Cai, C. Wang, H. Ji, C.P. Grey, B. Ouyang, G. Ceder
Published in: Nature Materials, 2024, ISSN 1932-7447
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1038/s41563-024-01800-8

Lithium Diffusion in Niobium Tungsten Oxide Shear Structures

Author(s): Can P. Koçer, Kent J. Griffith, Clare P. Grey, Andrew J. Morris
Published in: Chemistry of Materials, Issue 32/9, 2020, Page(s) 3980-3989, ISSN 0897-4756
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.0c00483

Stabilized tilted-octahedra halide perovskites inhibit local formation of performance-limiting phases

Author(s): By:Doherty, TAS (Doherty, Tiarnan A. S.) [1] ; Nagane, S (Nagane, Satyawan) [1] ; Kubicki, DJ (Kubicki, Dominik J.) [1] , [2] ; Jung, YK (Jung, Young-Kwang) [3] ; Johnstone, DN (Johnstone, Duncan N.) [4] ; Iqbal, AN (Iqbal, Affan N.) [1] , [5] ; Guo, DY (Guo, Dengyang) [1] , [5] ; Frohna, K (Frohna, Kyle) [1] ; Danaie, M (Danaie, Mohsen) [6] , [7] ; Tennyson, EM (Tennyson, Elizabeth M.) [1] ; Macp
Published in: Science, 2021, ISSN 0036-8075
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/science.abl4890

Two electrolyte decomposition pathways at nickel-rich cathode surfaces in lithium-ion batteries.

Author(s): Bernardine L. D. Rinkel; J. Padmanabhan Vivek; Nuria Garcia-Araez; Clare P. Grey
Published in: Energy and Environmental Sciences, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 1754-5692
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.17863/cam.86241

NMR Methodology for Measuring Dissolved O₂ and Transport in Lithium–Air Batteries

Author(s): Wang, Evelyna; Jónsson, Erlendur; Grey, Clare P
Published in: Crossref, Issue 3, 2023, ISSN 1932-7447
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.3c00991

Clarifying the Dopant Local Structure and Effect on Ionic Conductivity in Garnet Solid-State Electrolytes for Lithium-Ion Batteries

Author(s): Vema, Sundeep; Berge, Astrid H; Nagendran, Supreeth; Grey, Clare P
Published in: Crossref, Issue 2, 2023, ISSN 0897-4756
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c01831

Noninvasive In Situ NMR Study of “Dead Lithium” Formation and Lithium Corrosion in Full-Cell Lithium Metal Batteries

Author(s): Anna B. Gunnarsdóttir, Chibueze V. Amanchukwu, Svetlana Menkin, Clare P. Grey
Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Issue 142/49, 2020, Page(s) 20814-20827, ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c10258

3D Nanocomposite Thin Film Cathodes for Micro‐Batteries with Enhanced High‐Rate Electrochemical Performance over Planar Films

Author(s): Lovett, Adam J.; Daramalla, Venkateswarlu; Nayak, Debasis; Sayed, Farheen N.; Mahadevegowda, Amoghavarsha; Ducati, Caterina; Spencer, Ben F.; Dutton, Siân E.; Grey, Clare P.; MacManus‐Driscoll, Judith L.
Published in: Advanced Energy Materials, Issue 3, 2023, ISSN 1614-6832
Publisher: Wiley-VCH Verlag
DOI: 10.1002/aenm.202302053

Sodium Tetrakis(hexafluoroisopropyloxy)aluminates: Synthesis and Electrochemical Characterisation of a Room‐Temperature Solvated Ionic Liquid

Author(s): Darren M. C. Ould; Svetlana Menkin; Holly E. Smith; Víctor Riesgo‐González; Thomas H. Smith; Melissa N. B. Chinn; Erlendur Jónsson; Andrew D. Bond; Clare P. Grey; Dominic S. Wright
Published in: ChemElectroChem, Vol 11, Iss 2, Pp n/a-n/a (2024), Issue 3, 2024, ISSN 2196-0216
Publisher: Wiley-VCH GmbH
DOI: 10.1002/celc.202300381

Associative pyridinium electrolytes for air-tolerant redox flow batteries

Author(s): ME Carrington, K Sokołowski, E Jónsson, EW Zhao, AM Graf, I Temprano, JA McCune, CP Grey, OA Scherman,
Published in: Nature, 2024, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06664-7

Spiers Memorial Lecture: Lithium air batteries – tracking function and failure

Author(s): Fritzke, Jana B; Ellison, James HJ; Brazel, Laurence; Horwitz, Gabriela; Menkin, Svetlana; Grey, Clare P
Published in: Crossref, Issue 3, 2024, ISSN 1359-6640
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d3fd00154g

Understanding the Surface Regeneration and Reactivity of Garnet Solid-State Electrolytes

Author(s): Vema, Sundeep; Sayed, Farheen N; Nagendran, Supreeth; Karagoz, Burcu; Sternemann, Christian; Paulus, Michael; Held, Georg; Grey, Clare P
Published in: Crossref, Issue 2, 2023, ISSN 2380-8195
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.3c01042

Interactions of Oxide Surfaces with Water Revealed with Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy

Author(s): Junchao Chen, Michael A. Hope, Zhiye Lin, Meng Wang, Tao Liu, David M. Halat, Yujie Wen, Teng Chen, Xiaokang Ke, Pieter C. M. M. Magusin, Weiping Ding, Xifeng Xia, Xin-Ping Wu, Xue-Qing Gong, Clare P. Grey, Luming Peng
Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Issue 142/25, 2020, Page(s) 11173-11182, ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c03760

Investigating the effect of a fluoroethylene carbonate additive on lithium deposition and the solid electrolyte interphase spectroscopy

Author(s): Gunnarsdóttir, A., Vema, S., Menkin, S., Marbella, L., & Grey, C.
Published in: Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2020, ISSN 2050-7488
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.17863/cam.54707

Stable Hexylphosphonate-Capped Blue-Emitting Quantum-Confined CsPbBr 3 Nanoplatelets

Author(s): Javad Shamsi, Dominik Kubicki, Miguel Anaya, Yun Liu, Kangyu Ji, Kyle Frohna, Clare P. Grey, Richard H. Friend, Samuel D. Stranks
Published in: ACS Energy Letters, Issue 5/6, 2020, Page(s) 1900-1907, ISSN 2380-8195
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.0c00935

Solvent-dependent iodide interactions in LiO₂ electrolytes – a molecular dynamics study

Author(s): Erlendur Jónsson; Astrid H. Berge; Clare P. Grey; Israel Temprano
Published in: Crossref, Issue 2, 2024, ISSN 1359-6640
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d3fd00090g

Designing for conjugate addition: an amine functionalised quinone anolyte for redox flow batteries

Author(s): Jethwa, RB (Jethwa, Rajesh B.); Zhao, EW (Zhao, Evan Wenbo); Kerber, RN (Kerber, Rachel N.); Jonsson, E (Jonsson, Erlendur); Wright, DS (Wright, Dominic S.); Grey, CP (Grey, Clare P.)
Published in: Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2021, ISSN 2050-7488
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d1ta02870g

Surface reduction in lithium- and manganese-rich layered cathodes for lithium ion batteries drives voltage decay

Author(s): B. Wen, F.N. Sayed, W.M. Dose, J.K. Morzy, Y. Son, S. Nagendran, C. Ducati, C.P. Grey, M.F.L. De Volder
Published in: Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2022, ISSN 2050-7488
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d2ta04876k

Enhanced visible light absorption in layered Cs3Bi2Br9 through mixed-valence Sn(ii)/Sn(iv) doping.

Author(s): Chantalle J Krajewska; Seán R. Kavanagh; Seán R. Kavanagh; Lina Zhang; Dominik J. Kubicki; Krishanu Dey; Krzysztof Galkowski; Krzysztof Galkowski; Krzysztof Galkowski; Clare P. Grey; Samuel D. Stranks; Aron Walsh; Aron Walsh; David O. Scanlon; Robert G. Palgrave
Published in: Chemical Science, Issue 3, 2021, ISSN 2041-6520
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d1sc03775g

Potentiometric MRI of a Superconcentrated Lithium Electrolyte: Testing the Irreversible Thermodynamics Approach.

Author(s): Andrew Wang; Anna B. Gunnarsdóttir; Jack Fawdon; Mauro Pasta; Clare P. Grey; Charles W. Monroe
Published in: ACS Energy Letters, Issue 1, 2021, ISSN 2380-8195
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.17863/cam.77359

Mesoscopic simulations of the in situ NMR spectra of porous carbon based supercapacitors: electronic structure and adsorbent reorganisation effects.

Author(s): Anagha Sasikumar; Anouar Belhboub; Camille Bacon; Alexander C. Forse; John M. Griffin; Clare P. Grey; Patrice Simon; Céline Merlet
Published in: Phys Chem Chem Phys, Issue 2, 2021, ISSN 1463-9076
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d1cp02130c

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

Triarylamines as Catholytes in Aqueous Organic Redox Flow Batteries

Author(s): Nadia L. Farag; Rajesh B. Jethwa; Alice E. Beardmore; Teresa Insinna; Christopher A. O'Keefe; Peter A. A. Klusener; Clare P. Grey; Dominic S. Wright
Published in: Crossref, Issue 2, 2023, ISSN 1864-5631
Publisher: Wiley - V C H Verlag GmbbH & Co.
DOI: 10.1002/cssc.202300128