Designing better electrolytes

Electrolytes and the associated interphases constitute the critical components to support the emerging battery chemistries that promise tantalizing energy but involve drastic phase and structure complications. These include transporting ions while insulating electrons between the electrodes and maintaining stability against electrodes of extreme chemical natures: the strongly oxidative cathode and the strongly reductive anode.

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• 1 Designing better electrolytes and interphases holds the key to the success of these batteries.
• 2 As the only component that interfaces with every other component in the device, an electrolyte must satisfy multiple criteria simultaneously.
• 3 These include transporting ions while insulating electrons between the electrodes and maintaining stability against electrodes of extreme chemical natures: the strongly oxidative cathode and the strongly reductive anode.

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