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C.F. and M.I. would like to acknowledge the financial support of ISTA and the Werner Siemens Foundation. N.N.P. acknowledges the financial support of AMBER under grant number 12/rc/2278_p2.","abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"Copper chalcogenides offer high charge mobility and low lattice thermal conductivity but suffer from structural instability due to dynamic Cu+ migration. Here, we report a colloidal hot-injection synthesis of ternary cesium copper selenide (CsCu5Se3) nanocrystals (NCs), achieving precise control over phase, size, and morphology through tailored precursor-ligand modulation. This strategy enabled systematic exploration of stable and metastable Cs–Cu–Se phases and mechanistic investigation of nucleation and growth, providing insight into phase modulation and dimensional control at the nanoscale. CsCu5Se3 NCs exhibit low lattice thermal conductivity (∼0.5 Wm–1K–1) and an experimental zT of 0.27 at 718 K. Complementary first-principles calculations, consistent with experimental electronic and optical responses, predict a zT of 1.05 at 1000 K. These findings elucidate the formation dynamics of CsCu5Se3 and establish ABZ (A = alkali, B = metal, Z = chalcogen) NCs as tunable platforms for advanced functional applications."}],"type":"journal_article","publication_identifier":{"eissn":["2380-8195"]},"page":"481-488","volume":11,"user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","intvolume":"        11","citation":{"apa":"Patil, N. N., Wu, R., Fiedler, C., Kapuria, N., Nan, B., Jakhar, N., … Singh, S. (2026). Layered alkali-copper selenides: Deciphering thermoelectric properties and reaction pathways for nanostructuring β-CsCu5Se3. <i>ACS Energy Letters</i>. American Chemical Society. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.5c02909\">https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.5c02909</a>","ama":"Patil NN, Wu R, Fiedler C, et al. Layered alkali-copper selenides: Deciphering thermoelectric properties and reaction pathways for nanostructuring β-CsCu5Se3. <i>ACS Energy Letters</i>. 2026;11(1):481-488. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.5c02909\">10.1021/acsenergylett.5c02909</a>","ieee":"N. N. Patil <i>et al.</i>, “Layered alkali-copper selenides: Deciphering thermoelectric properties and reaction pathways for nanostructuring β-CsCu5Se3,” <i>ACS Energy Letters</i>, vol. 11, no. 1. American Chemical Society, pp. 481–488, 2026.","mla":"Patil, Niraj Nitish, et al. “Layered Alkali-Copper Selenides: Deciphering Thermoelectric Properties and Reaction Pathways for Nanostructuring β-CsCu5Se3.” <i>ACS Energy Letters</i>, vol. 11, no. 1, American Chemical Society, 2026, pp. 481–88, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.5c02909\">10.1021/acsenergylett.5c02909</a>.","chicago":"Patil, Niraj Nitish, Ruiqi Wu, Christine Fiedler, Nilotpal Kapuria, Bingfei Nan, Navita Jakhar, Andreu Cabot, et al. “Layered Alkali-Copper Selenides: Deciphering Thermoelectric Properties and Reaction Pathways for Nanostructuring β-CsCu5Se3.” <i>ACS Energy Letters</i>. American Chemical Society, 2026. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.5c02909\">https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.5c02909</a>.","short":"N.N. Patil, R. Wu, C. Fiedler, N. Kapuria, B. Nan, N. Jakhar, A. Cabot, M. Ibáñez, K.M. Ryan, A.M. Ganose, S. Singh, ACS Energy Letters 11 (2026) 481–488.","ista":"Patil NN, Wu R, Fiedler C, Kapuria N, Nan B, Jakhar N, Cabot A, Ibáñez M, Ryan KM, Ganose AM, Singh S. 2026. Layered alkali-copper selenides: Deciphering thermoelectric properties and reaction pathways for nanostructuring β-CsCu5Se3. ACS Energy Letters. 11(1), 481–488."},"quality_controlled":"1","status":"public","OA_type":"closed access","year":"2026","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"publisher":"American Chemical Society","date_updated":"2026-01-19T08:43:21Z","date_created":"2026-01-18T23:02:43Z","oa_version":"None","project":[{"name":"HighTE: The Werner Siemens Laboratory for the High Throughput Discovery of Semiconductors for Waste Heat Recovery","_id":"9B8F7476-BA93-11EA-9121-9846C619BF3A"}],"doi":"10.1021/acsenergylett.5c02909","date_published":"2026-01-09T00:00:00Z","title":"Layered alkali-copper selenides: Deciphering thermoelectric properties and reaction pathways for nanostructuring β-CsCu5Se3"},{"acknowledgement":"The Scientific Service Units (SSU) of ISTA supported this research through resources provided by the Lab Support Facility (LSF). This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China grant 2024YFE0105200 (to C.S.), National Natural Science Foundation of China grant 12504038 (to M.L.), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation grant 2023M743151 (to M.L.), Natural Science Foundation of Henan Province grant 252300421763 (to M.L.), Key Scientific Research Project of Higher Education Institutions in Henan Province grant 25A140004 (to M.L.), National Natural Science Foundation of China grant 12204156 (to D.W.), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation grant 2023TQ0315 and 2023 M743224 (to D.W.), Generalitat de Catalunya grant 2021SGR00457 (to J.A.), and European Regional Development Fund grants ENE2016-77798-C4-3-R, PID2020-116093RB-C43, and AEI/10.13039/501100011033 (to A.C.). This work also was financially supported by ISTA and the Werner Siemens Foundation (to M.I.).","_id":"21750","author":[{"first_name":"Mengyao","last_name":"Li","full_name":"Li, Mengyao"},{"full_name":"Zhao, Xueke","first_name":"Xueke","last_name":"Zhao"},{"full_name":"Zhang, Yu","first_name":"Yu","last_name":"Zhang"},{"last_name":"Yu","first_name":"Jing","full_name":"Yu, Jing"},{"first_name":"Xuyang","last_name":"Liu","full_name":"Liu, Xuyang"},{"first_name":"Mochen","last_name":"Jia","full_name":"Jia, Mochen"},{"full_name":"Song, Hongzhang","first_name":"Hongzhang","last_name":"Song"},{"full_name":"Wang, Dongyang","first_name":"Dongyang","last_name":"Wang"},{"last_name":"Arbiol","first_name":"Jordi","full_name":"Arbiol, Jordi"},{"orcid":"0000-0001-5013-2843","full_name":"Ibáñez, Maria","id":"43C61214-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","last_name":"Ibáñez","first_name":"Maria"},{"full_name":"Shan, Chongxin","last_name":"Shan","first_name":"Chongxin"},{"full_name":"Cabot, Andreu","first_name":"Andreu","last_name":"Cabot"},{"last_name":"Wang","first_name":"Ziyu","full_name":"Wang, Ziyu"}],"type":"journal_article","abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"Liquid-like superionic conductors, with highly mobile ions in a rigid framework, offer intrinsically low lattice thermal conductivity without compromising electronic transport. Argyrodite-type Ag8SnSe6 exhibits a melt-like Ag sublattice that drives lattice thermal conductivity (κL) below 0.2 watts per meter per kelvin, yet its low carrier concentration limits the power factor. Here, interstitial Ag atoms raise the Fermi level into the conduction band, substantially increasing the electron concentration. Simultaneously, the formation of a secondary Ag2Se phase generates lattice distortions that enhance phonon scattering. A pronounced mismatch between electronic (~200 nanometers) and phononic (~0.22 nanometers) mean free paths decouples charge and heat transport, enabling concurrent suppression of κL and retention of high electrical conductivity. This coupled electronic-phononic modulation yields a record ZT of 0.72 at ambient temperature and a peak ZT of 1.1 at 735 kelvins, with an average ZTavg of 0.72 over 320 to 735 kelvins. A unicouple device achieves 6.3% efficiency under a 357-kelvin gradient, highlighting a practical strategy for high-performance midtemperature thermoelectrics."}],"acknowledged_ssus":[{"_id":"LifeSc"}],"publication_identifier":{"eissn":["2375-2548"]},"volume":12,"license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/","user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","scopus_import":"1","fulldoi":"https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aec9073","article_processing_charge":"Yes","publication":"Science Advances","file_date_updated":"2026-05-06T06:06:26Z","file":[{"creator":"dernst","checksum":"9bd4546a23f218972f83164fb21003e1","date_created":"2026-05-06T06:06:26Z","file_size":3727993,"date_updated":"2026-05-06T06:06:26Z","content_type":"application/pdf","access_level":"open_access","relation":"main_file","file_name":"2026_ScienceAdv_Li.pdf","success":1,"file_id":"21802"}],"oa":1,"article_type":"original","article_number":"eaec9073","publication_status":"published","department":[{"_id":"MaIb"}],"issue":"15","day":"10","month":"04","has_accepted_license":"1","tmp":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)","image":"/images/cc_by_nc.png","legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode","short":"CC BY-NC (4.0)"},"publisher":"AAAS","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"date_created":"2026-04-19T22:07:47Z","oa_version":"Published Version","project":[{"_id":"9B8F7476-BA93-11EA-9121-9846C619BF3A","name":"HighTE: The Werner Siemens Laboratory for the High Throughput Discovery of Semiconductors for Waste Heat Recovery"}],"date_updated":"2026-05-06T06:08:27Z","pmid":1,"ddc":["530"],"external_id":{"pmid":["41961944"]},"title":"Electronic-phononic decoupling and Fermi-level tuning enable high thermoelectric performance in Ag8SnSe6","doi":"10.1126/sciadv.aec9073","date_published":"2026-04-10T00:00:00Z","intvolume":"        12","DOAJ_listed":"1","citation":{"short":"M. Li, X. Zhao, Y. Zhang, J. Yu, X. Liu, M. Jia, H. Song, D. Wang, J. Arbiol, M. Ibáñez, C. Shan, A. Cabot, Z. Wang, Science Advances 12 (2026).","chicago":"Li, Mengyao, Xueke Zhao, Yu Zhang, Jing Yu, Xuyang Liu, Mochen Jia, Hongzhang Song, et al. “Electronic-Phononic Decoupling and Fermi-Level Tuning Enable High Thermoelectric Performance in Ag8SnSe6.” <i>Science Advances</i>. AAAS, 2026. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aec9073\">https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aec9073</a>.","ieee":"M. Li <i>et al.</i>, “Electronic-phononic decoupling and Fermi-level tuning enable high thermoelectric performance in Ag8SnSe6,” <i>Science Advances</i>, vol. 12, no. 15. AAAS, 2026.","mla":"Li, Mengyao, et al. “Electronic-Phononic Decoupling and Fermi-Level Tuning Enable High Thermoelectric Performance in Ag8SnSe6.” <i>Science Advances</i>, vol. 12, no. 15, eaec9073, AAAS, 2026, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aec9073\">10.1126/sciadv.aec9073</a>.","ama":"Li M, Zhao X, Zhang Y, et al. Electronic-phononic decoupling and Fermi-level tuning enable high thermoelectric performance in Ag8SnSe6. <i>Science Advances</i>. 2026;12(15). doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aec9073\">10.1126/sciadv.aec9073</a>","apa":"Li, M., Zhao, X., Zhang, Y., Yu, J., Liu, X., Jia, M., … Wang, Z. (2026). Electronic-phononic decoupling and Fermi-level tuning enable high thermoelectric performance in Ag8SnSe6. <i>Science Advances</i>. AAAS. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aec9073\">https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aec9073</a>","ista":"Li M, Zhao X, Zhang Y, Yu J, Liu X, Jia M, Song H, Wang D, Arbiol J, Ibáñez M, Shan C, Cabot A, Wang Z. 2026. Electronic-phononic decoupling and Fermi-level tuning enable high thermoelectric performance in Ag8SnSe6. Science Advances. 12(15), eaec9073."},"status":"public","quality_controlled":"1","OA_type":"gold","OA_place":"publisher","year":"2026"},{"_id":"21896","author":[{"first_name":"Carla","last_name":"Santana Santos","full_name":"Santana Santos, Carla"},{"last_name":"Jiyane","first_name":"Nomnotho","full_name":"Jiyane, Nomnotho"},{"first_name":"Thomas","last_name":"Quast","full_name":"Quast, Thomas"},{"full_name":"Ibáñez, Maria","id":"43C61214-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","orcid":"0000-0001-5013-2843","last_name":"Ibáñez","first_name":"Maria"},{"full_name":"Rubio‐Presa, Rubén","last_name":"Rubio‐Presa","first_name":"Rubén"},{"last_name":"Peljo","first_name":"Pekka","full_name":"Peljo, Pekka"},{"full_name":"Schuhmann, Wolfgang","first_name":"Wolfgang","last_name":"Schuhmann"}],"acknowledgement":"The authors acknowledge funding from the European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation programme— European Innovation Council (EIC) under the grant agreement No 101046742 (MeBattery). P.P. acknowledges the funding from the European Research Council through a Starting Grant (agreement no. 950038). Dr. Mahdi Moghaddam, University of Turku, is acknowledged for providing the CuHCF, and Prof. Hubert Girault, EPFL, is acknowledged for providing the TEMPTMA.\r\nOpen Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.","PlanS_conform":"1","abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"Redox-mediated flow batteries boost energy density by utilizing dissolved redox species as charge carriers for solid charge-storage materials. This strategy strongly depends on the thermodynamics and kinetics between the solid booster and dissolved redox species. Conventional electrochemical methods often convolute intrinsic reactivity with mass transport effects, introducing complexity in determining limiting steps. We propose a strategy that confines solid boosters within recessed microelectrodes and employs scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM) to estimate reaction kinetics between booster and dissolved active redox species. Confining the solid booster in the recessed microelectrode overcomes mass transport limitations of dissolved redox species and enables controlled polarization of the booster material, allowing deconvolution of key rate-determining factors. As an initial model system, Prussian blue-ferricyanide/ferrocyanide [Fe(CN)6]3−/4− was used as solid booster and dissolved redox active species, respectively. The methodology was further explored for copper hexacyanoferrate with N,N,N-2,2,6,6-heptamethylpiperidinyl oxy-4-ammonium chloride and nickel hydroxide with [Fe(CN)6]3−/4− and extended to Mn-based Prussian blue analogues in combination with organic redox species. Our results demonstrate that SECM coupled with the proposed recessed microelectrode strategy provides a powerful platform to disentangle interfacial kinetics and guide the rational design of solid booster-dissolved redox species and electrolytes for high-performance redox-mediated flow batteries."}],"type":"journal_article","volume":9,"publication_identifier":{"eissn":["2566-6223"]},"user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","publication":"Batteries & Supercaps","article_processing_charge":"Yes (via OA deal)","fulldoi":"https://doi.org/10.1002/batt.70303","scopus_import":"1","article_number":"e70303","article_type":"original","oa":1,"file_date_updated":"2026-05-21T06:54:57Z","file":[{"checksum":"292d65503a63cc7df92b960627634dad","creator":"dernst","date_created":"2026-05-21T06:54:57Z","access_level":"open_access","content_type":"application/pdf","date_updated":"2026-05-21T06:54:57Z","file_size":756344,"file_name":"2026_BatteriesSupercaps_SantanaSantos.pdf","relation":"main_file","file_id":"21904","success":1}],"issue":"5","publication_status":"published","department":[{"_id":"MaIb"}],"has_accepted_license":"1","month":"05","day":"01","das_tickbox":"1","publisher":"Wiley","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"tmp":{"legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","short":"CC BY (4.0)","image":"/images/cc_by.png","name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)"},"ddc":["530"],"date_updated":"2026-07-08T06:48:01Z","oa_version":"Published Version","date_created":"2026-05-20T14:32:37Z","date_published":"2026-05-01T00:00:00Z","doi":"10.1002/batt.70303","title":"Evaluating reaction kinetics between solid booster and dissolved active species in redox‐mediated flow batteries using scanning electrochemical microscopy","intvolume":"         9","citation":{"ista":"Santana Santos C, Jiyane N, Quast T, Ibáñez M, Rubio‐Presa R, Peljo P, Schuhmann W. 2026. Evaluating reaction kinetics between solid booster and dissolved active species in redox‐mediated flow batteries using scanning electrochemical microscopy. Batteries &#38; Supercaps. 9(5), e70303.","mla":"Santana Santos, Carla, et al. “Evaluating Reaction Kinetics between Solid Booster and Dissolved Active Species in Redox‐mediated Flow Batteries Using Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy.” <i>Batteries &#38; Supercaps</i>, vol. 9, no. 5, e70303, Wiley, 2026, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1002/batt.70303\">10.1002/batt.70303</a>.","ieee":"C. Santana Santos <i>et al.</i>, “Evaluating reaction kinetics between solid booster and dissolved active species in redox‐mediated flow batteries using scanning electrochemical microscopy,” <i>Batteries &#38; Supercaps</i>, vol. 9, no. 5. Wiley, 2026.","chicago":"Santana Santos, Carla, Nomnotho Jiyane, Thomas Quast, Maria Ibáñez, Rubén Rubio‐Presa, Pekka Peljo, and Wolfgang Schuhmann. “Evaluating Reaction Kinetics between Solid Booster and Dissolved Active Species in Redox‐mediated Flow Batteries Using Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy.” <i>Batteries &#38; Supercaps</i>. Wiley, 2026. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1002/batt.70303\">https://doi.org/10.1002/batt.70303</a>.","short":"C. Santana Santos, N. Jiyane, T. Quast, M. Ibáñez, R. Rubio‐Presa, P. Peljo, W. Schuhmann, Batteries &#38; Supercaps 9 (2026).","apa":"Santana Santos, C., Jiyane, N., Quast, T., Ibáñez, M., Rubio‐Presa, R., Peljo, P., &#38; Schuhmann, W. (2026). Evaluating reaction kinetics between solid booster and dissolved active species in redox‐mediated flow batteries using scanning electrochemical microscopy. <i>Batteries &#38; Supercaps</i>. 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This dual modification promotes rapid Li⁺ diffusion, enables near-complete delithiation/lithiation, approaching the theoretical capacity of disordered LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4, and, more importantly, effectively mitigates the formation of the rock-salt phase, thereby enhancing structural stability, as confirmed by operando X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) and synchrotron X-ray diffraction (SXRD). As a result, the optimized LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4 (10 mg AlF3 + 30 mg LiF) delivers high reversible capacities of 142.1, 139.1, 129.2, 121.6, 110.3, 93.5, and 76.1 mAh∙g−1 at 0.2C, 0.5C, 1.0C, 2.0C, 3.0C, 4.0C, and 5.0C, respectively. Full cells using graphite as the anode and a high-loading cathode exhibit excellent cycling performance. They retain 80% of their capacity after 200 cycles at 0.5C within a voltage window of 3.5–4.9 V with cathode loading of 11 mg∙cm−2. The findings of this study will significantly advance high-power LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4 materials, offering improved battery life and thereby enhancing their potential for practical applications.","lang":"eng"}],"type":"journal_article","supplementarymaterial":"yes","acknowledgement":"This work was supported by the European Commission-financed project IntelLigent (HORIZON-CL5-2021-D2-01-02) with project ID number 101069765. In collaboration with ALBA staff, the operando SXRD and XAS experiments were performed at BL-16-NOTOS beamline at ALBA Synchrotron Light Source (experiment number: 2023097765). This research was supported by the Scientific Service Units (SSU) of the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) through resources provided by the Electron Microscopy Facility (EMF) and the Nanofabrication Facility (NFF), and M.I. and S.H. acknowledge financial support from ISTA and the Werner Siemens Foundation. Jordi Jacas Biendicho acknowledges the fellowship RYC2021-034994-I, funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and the European Union «NextGenerationEU»/PRTR». Jordi Llorca is a Serra Húnter Fellow and is grateful to projects MICIN/AEI/FEDER PID2021-124572OB-C31 and Maria de Maeztu Units of Excellence Programme CEX2023-001300-M, and GC 2021 SGR 01061.","_id":"20851","author":[{"full_name":"Chang, Xingqi","first_name":"Xingqi","last_name":"Chang"},{"first_name":"Carlos","last_name":"Escudero","full_name":"Escudero, Carlos"},{"full_name":"Black, Ashley P.","last_name":"Black","first_name":"Ashley P."},{"first_name":"Sharona","last_name":"Horta","full_name":"Horta, Sharona","id":"03a7e858-01b1-11ec-8b71-99ae6c4a05bc"},{"full_name":"Martínez, Elías","first_name":"Elías","last_name":"Martínez"},{"last_name":"Lu","first_name":"Xuan","full_name":"Lu, Xuan"},{"full_name":"Llorca, Jordi","last_name":"Llorca","first_name":"Jordi"},{"orcid":"0000-0001-5013-2843","full_name":"Ibáñez, Maria","id":"43C61214-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","last_name":"Ibáñez","first_name":"Maria"},{"first_name":"Jordi Jacas","last_name":"Biendicho","full_name":"Biendicho, Jordi Jacas"},{"last_name":"Cabot","first_name":"Andreu","full_name":"Cabot, Andreu"}],"PlanS_conform":"1","user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","volume":13,"publication_identifier":{"eissn":["2198-3844"]},"acknowledged_ssus":[{"_id":"EM-Fac"},{"_id":"NanoFab"}],"article_number":"e15962","article_type":"original","oa":1,"file_date_updated":"2026-07-23T06:15:51Z","file":[{"file_name":"2026_AdvancedScience_Chang.pdf","relation":"main_file","success":1,"file_id":"22387","creator":"dernst","checksum":"37adc3eff9ad9f8f9b55cfe66883f36d","content_type":"application/pdf","access_level":"open_access","date_updated":"2026-07-23T06:15:51Z","file_size":6353217,"date_created":"2026-07-23T06:15:51Z"}],"publication":"Advanced Science","article_processing_charge":"Yes","scopus_import":"1","fulldoi":"https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202515962","researchdata_availability":"upon request","has_accepted_license":"1","day":"23","month":"02","dataavailabilitystatement":"The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request","issue":"11","publication_status":"published","department":[{"_id":"MaIb"}],"das_tickbox":"1","publisher":"Wiley","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"tmp":{"legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","short":"CC BY (4.0)","image":"/images/cc_by.png","name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)"},"date_published":"2026-02-23T00:00:00Z","doi":"10.1002/advs.202515962","external_id":{"pmid":["41388041"]},"title":"Mitigating the rock-salt phase transformation in disordered LNMO through synergetic solid-state AlF3/LiF modifications","ddc":["540"],"date_updated":"2026-07-23T06:18:43Z","pmid":1,"project":[{"_id":"9B8F7476-BA93-11EA-9121-9846C619BF3A","name":"HighTE: The Werner Siemens Laboratory for the High Throughput Discovery of Semiconductors for Waste Heat Recovery"}],"keyword":["disordered spinel LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4 (LNMO)","generation 3b batteries","operando SXRD","operando XAS","rock-salt","solid-state synthesis"],"date_created":"2025-12-21T23:01:35Z","oa_version":"Published Version","citation":{"ista":"Chang X, Escudero C, Black AP, Horta S, Martínez E, Lu X, Llorca J, Ibáñez M, Biendicho JJ, Cabot A. 2026. 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Y.L. acknowledges funding from the NSFC (Grant Number 22209034), the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Project of Overseas Returnees in Anhui Province (Grant Number 2022LCX002), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (JZ2024HGTB0239). Y.Z. acknowledges funding from the NSFC (Grant Number 52502313) and Wenzhou Basic Scientific Research Project (Grant Number G20240034). Q. W. acknowledges financial support from the NSFC (Grant Number 22208292), the High-Level Overseas-Educated Talents Return Program, and the “Pioneer” and “Leading Goose” R&D Program of Zhejiang [2025C04021]. K.H.L., Q. W., and X. Y. also acknowledge the Research Funds of the Institute of Zhejiang University-Quzhou (Grants No. IZQ2022RCZX101, IZQ2021RCZX003, IZQ2021RCZX002, and IZQ2024KJ0004). M.H. acknowledges the funding from the Australian Research Council and the iLAuNCH Trailblazer, Department of Education, Australia. 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Herein, we report a ligand-free aqueous synthesis of Te-doped CuAgSe (CuAgSe1-xTex), where structural and electronic modulation improve carrier transport and suppress phonon propagation. Ex-situ time-resolved X-ray diffraction reveals a spontaneous growth mechanism, while density functional theory calculations show that Te-5s and 5p orbitals hybridization generates localized states and an asymmetric density of states, thereby enhancing the Seebeck coefficient. Electron microscopy and strain analyses confirm that Te-doping introduces a high density of lattice dislocations and grain boundaries, leading to a reduced lattice thermal conductivity of 0.11 W m−1K−1 at 443 K. These synergistic effects translate into device-level performance—the first integrated CuAgSe thermoelectric modules, exhibit a maximum cooling temperature difference of 27.3 K, and power density of 0.34 W cm−2 with a conversion efficiency of 3.6% at a modest temperature gradient of 136 K. These results demonstrate that CuAgSe1-xTex enables efficient energy harvesting and localized cooling under small temperature gradient, underscoring the importance of structural and electronic design beyond conventional zT benchmarks."}]},{"publication_identifier":{"issn":["1616-301X"],"eissn":["1616-3028"]},"volume":36,"acknowledged_ssus":[{"_id":"EM-Fac"}],"license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/","user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","supplementarymaterial":"no","author":[{"full_name":"He, Ren","first_name":"Ren","last_name":"He"},{"id":"BB243B88-D767-11E9-B658-BC13E6697425","full_name":"Lee, Seungho","orcid":"0000-0002-6962-8598","first_name":"Seungho","last_name":"Lee"},{"last_name":"Ding","first_name":"Yang","full_name":"Ding, Yang"},{"full_name":"Huang, Chen","last_name":"Huang","first_name":"Chen"},{"first_name":"Xuan","last_name":"Lu","full_name":"Lu, Xuan"},{"first_name":"Lirong","last_name":"Zheng","full_name":"Zheng, Lirong"},{"full_name":"Yu, Ao","last_name":"Yu","first_name":"Ao"},{"full_name":"Zhang, Chaoyue","last_name":"Zhang","first_name":"Chaoyue"},{"full_name":"Li, Canhuang","last_name":"Li","first_name":"Canhuang"},{"first_name":"Xiaoyu","last_name":"Bi","full_name":"Bi, Xiaoyu"},{"first_name":"Yaqiang","last_name":"Li","full_name":"Li, Yaqiang"},{"last_name":"Liao","first_name":"Yaqi","full_name":"Liao, Yaqi"},{"last_name":"Li","first_name":"Junshan","full_name":"Li, Junshan"},{"last_name":"Ostovari Moghaddam","first_name":"Ahmad","full_name":"Ostovari Moghaddam, Ahmad"},{"full_name":"Yernar, Salimov","first_name":"Salimov","last_name":"Yernar"},{"full_name":"Xu, Ying","last_name":"Xu","first_name":"Ying"},{"first_name":"Maria","last_name":"Ibáñez","orcid":"0000-0001-5013-2843","full_name":"Ibáñez, Maria","id":"43C61214-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87"},{"full_name":"Zhang, Chaoqi","last_name":"Zhang","first_name":"Chaoqi"},{"first_name":"Linlin","last_name":"Yang","full_name":"Yang, Linlin"},{"first_name":"Yingtang","last_name":"Zhou","full_name":"Zhou, Yingtang"},{"last_name":"Cabot","first_name":"Andreu","full_name":"Cabot, Andreu"}],"_id":"20191","acknowledgement":"The authors acknowledge support from the 2BoSS project of the ERA-MIN3 program with the Spanish grant number PCI2022-132985/AEI/10.13039/50110001103, and funding from Generalitat de Catalunya 2021SGR01581 and European Union NextGenerationEU/PRTR. L.Yang, C.Huang, X.Lu, A.Yu, C.Li, J.Yu, and X.Bi thank the China Scholarship Council (CSC) for the scholarship support. This research was supported by the Scientific Service Units (SSU) of ISTA through resources provided by the Electron Microscopy Facility (EMF), and by the Werner Siemens Foundation (WSS) for financial support.","abstract":[{"text":"High-entropy alloys (HEAs) show great potential for catalyzing complex multi-step reactions, but optimizing their parameters, i.e., composition, but also their crystallinity and morphology, remains a significant challenge. In this study, FeCoNiMoW HEAs are synthesized into either amorphous nanosheets (HEANS) or crystalline nanoparticles (HEANP), which are then used to catalyze the lithium–sulfur (Li–S) reaction of Li–S batteries (LSBs). Evaluations in symmetric cells, coin cells, and pouch cells reveal that HEANS significantly enhance LSB performance, achieving initial discharge capacities up to 1632 mAh g−1. The batteries also exhibit excellent cycling stability over 1000 cycles at 3Cand maintain high-rate performance up to 10C with a capacity of 614 mAh g−1. Comprehensive in situ analyses and density functional theory calculations demonstrate that amorphous HEANS provide more active sites, better ionic conductivity and stronger chemical interactions with lithium polysulfides (LiPS). These properties effectively suppress the shuttle effect, promote the complete S8 → Li2S conversion by reducing the impedance of the solid-electrolyte interphase, and accelerate the Li2S4 → Li2S2 step by lowering the nucleation energy barrier. 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This work is supported by funding from Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of MonocrystallineSilicon Semiconductor Materials and Technology (2025KFKT021). This research was supported by the Scientific Service Units (SSU) of ISTA Austria through resources provided by the Electron Microscopy Facility (EMF) and the Nanofabrication Facility (NNF). “M.I. and S.H. acknowledge financial support from ISTA and the Werner Siemens Foundation.”","author":[{"first_name":"Changwei","last_name":"Shi","full_name":"Shi, Changwei"},{"last_name":"Horta","first_name":"Sharona","id":"03a7e858-01b1-11ec-8b71-99ae6c4a05bc","full_name":"Horta, Sharona"},{"last_name":"Ibáñez","first_name":"Maria","full_name":"Ibáñez, Maria","id":"43C61214-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","orcid":"0000-0001-5013-2843"},{"first_name":"Tanja","last_name":"Kallio","full_name":"Kallio, Tanja"},{"full_name":"Martínez-Alanis, Paulina R.","last_name":"Martínez-Alanis","first_name":"Paulina R."},{"full_name":"Wang, Xiang","first_name":"Xiang","last_name":"Wang"},{"full_name":"Cabot, Andreu","last_name":"Cabot","first_name":"Andreu"}],"supplementarymaterial":"yes","type":"journal_article","abstract":[{"text":"The oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) remains a critical bottleneck in fuel cells and metal-air batteries due to the lack of highly efficient electrocatalysts. Here, we report a simple strategy for synthesizing a palladium-based heterostructured electrocatalyst supported on a carbon nitride matrix (PdH-Pd@CN), which exhibits remarkable ORR activity with a half-wave potential of 0.91 V and excellent durability in 0.1 M KOH. Within the heterostructure, hydrogen intercalation expands the Pd lattice, while interstitial hydrogen doping facilitates charge transfer from Pd to H owing to their electronegativity difference. These synergistic effects modulate the electronic structure, thereby enhancing both activity and stability. When employed in Zn-air batteries, PdH-Pd@CN delivers a maximum power density of 176 mW cm− (Liu et al., 2025) and capacity of 805 mAh g− (Sun et al., 2021) Zn. These findings demonstrate the strong potential of PdH-Pd@CN as an efficient ORR electrocatalyst for next-generation metal-air batteries and related energy technologies.","lang":"eng"}],"acknowledged_ssus":[{"_id":"EM-Fac"},{"_id":"NanoFab"}],"publication_identifier":{"issn":["1873-4405"],"eissn":["0009-2509"]},"volume":324,"user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87"},{"tmp":{"legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","short":"CC BY (4.0)","image":"/images/cc_by.png","name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)"},"das_tickbox":"0","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"publisher":"American Chemical Society","project":[{"name":"HighTE: The Werner Siemens Laboratory for the High Throughput Discovery of Semiconductors for Waste Heat Recovery","_id":"9B8F7476-BA93-11EA-9121-9846C619BF3A"}],"oa_version":"Published Version","date_created":"2026-08-04T06:29:31Z","ddc":["540"],"pmid":1,"date_updated":"2026-08-04T06:47:13Z","corr_author":"1","external_id":{"pmid":["42532904"]},"title":"Reaction medium asan architect of nanocrystal superlattices","date_published":"2026-07-15T00:00:00Z","doi":"10.1021/jacs.6c07859","intvolume":"       148","citation":{"ista":"Lee S, Balazs D, Rayaroth Puthiyaveettil A, Horta S, Goodrich CP, Engel M, Cherniukh I, Ibáñez M. 2026. Reaction medium asan architect of nanocrystal superlattices. Journal of the AmericanChemical Society. 148(29), 31245–31252.","ieee":"S. Lee <i>et al.</i>, “Reaction medium asan architect of nanocrystal superlattices,” <i>Journal of the AmericanChemical Society</i>, vol. 148, no. 29. American Chemical Society, pp. 31245–31252, 2026.","mla":"Lee, Seungho, et al. “Reaction Medium Asan Architect of Nanocrystal Superlattices.” <i>Journal of the AmericanChemical Society</i>, vol. 148, no. 29, American Chemical Society, 2026, pp. 31245–52, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6c07859\">10.1021/jacs.6c07859</a>.","short":"S. Lee, D. Balazs, A. Rayaroth Puthiyaveettil, S. Horta, C.P. Goodrich, M. Engel, I. Cherniukh, M. Ibáñez, Journal of the AmericanChemical Society 148 (2026) 31245–31252.","chicago":"Lee, Seungho, Daniel Balazs, Aiswarya Rayaroth Puthiyaveettil, Sharona Horta, Carl Peter Goodrich, Michael Engel, Ihor Cherniukh, and Maria Ibáñez. “Reaction Medium Asan Architect of Nanocrystal Superlattices.” <i>Journal of the AmericanChemical Society</i>. American Chemical Society, 2026. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6c07859\">https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6c07859</a>.","apa":"Lee, S., Balazs, D., Rayaroth Puthiyaveettil, A., Horta, S., Goodrich, C. P., Engel, M., … Ibáñez, M. (2026). Reaction medium asan architect of nanocrystal superlattices. <i>Journal of the AmericanChemical Society</i>. American Chemical Society. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6c07859\">https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6c07859</a>","ama":"Lee S, Balazs D, Rayaroth Puthiyaveettil A, et al. Reaction medium asan architect of nanocrystal superlattices. <i>Journal of the AmericanChemical Society</i>. 2026;148(29):31245-31252. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6c07859\">10.1021/jacs.6c07859</a>"},"status":"public","quality_controlled":"1","OA_place":"publisher","year":"2026","OA_type":"hybrid","_id":"22645","acknowledgement":"ISTA and the Werner Siemens Foundation financially supported this work. The Scientific Service Units (SSU) of ISTA supported this research through resources provided by the Electron Microscopy Facility (EMF), NMR Facility, and the Lab Support Facility (LSF). M.E. acknowledges financial support from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft through Collaborative Research Centre 1411. We thank Dr. Tommaso Constanzo and Tobias Kleinhanns for assistance with high-quality electron microscope image acquisition, Dr. Jeonghyun Park for providing NCs, Dr. Mariano Calcabrini for assistance with the NMR study, and Prof. Jonathan De Roo for fruitful discussions. This work benefited from the use of the SasView application, originally developed under NSF award DMR-0520547. SasView contains code developed with funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the SINE2020 project, grant agreement No. 654000.","PlanS_conform":"1","author":[{"first_name":"Seungho","last_name":"Lee","id":"BB243B88-D767-11E9-B658-BC13E6697425","full_name":"Lee, Seungho","orcid":"0000-0002-6962-8598"},{"first_name":"Daniel","last_name":"Balazs","id":"302BADF6-85FC-11EA-9E3B-B9493DDC885E","full_name":"Balazs, Daniel","orcid":"0000-0001-7597-043X"},{"last_name":"Rayaroth Puthiyaveettil","first_name":"Aiswarya","full_name":"Rayaroth Puthiyaveettil, Aiswarya","id":"8aceb01b-8972-11ed-ae7b-d5fe53775add"},{"full_name":"Horta, Sharona","id":"03a7e858-01b1-11ec-8b71-99ae6c4a05bc","first_name":"Sharona","last_name":"Horta"},{"first_name":"Carl Peter","last_name":"Goodrich","full_name":"Goodrich, Carl Peter","id":"EB352CD2-F68A-11E9-89C5-A432E6697425","orcid":"0000-0002-1307-5074"},{"full_name":"Engel, Michael","last_name":"Engel","first_name":"Michael"},{"last_name":"Cherniukh","first_name":"Ihor","id":"d03b62b2-5976-11ef-a8d7-9525504b7895","full_name":"Cherniukh, Ihor"},{"last_name":"Ibáñez","first_name":"Maria","orcid":"0000-0001-5013-2843","full_name":"Ibáñez, Maria","id":"43C61214-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87"}],"supplementarymaterial":"yes","type":"journal_article","abstract":[{"text":"Nanocrystal superlattices are commonly formed by changing concentration, solvent conditions, or particle surface chemistry. Although effective, these approaches alter multiple contributions to the interparticle potential simultaneously, making it difficult to isolate the interactions responsible for ordering or to control assembly in chemically complex environments. Here, we show that oligomeric species present in a nanocrystal reaction medium drive superlattice formation through a depletion mechanism. Using PbTe nanocrystals as a model system, we identify Pb–oleate oligomers in the crude reaction mixture, characterize their solution structure, and quantify their contribution to the interparticle potential, establishing depletion as the dominant short-range interaction governing spontaneous body-centered cubic superlattice formation. We then confirm the depletion origin of ordering by showing that varying depletant concentration predictably shifts the order–disorder boundary and produces a thermally reversible transition between dispersed and ordered states ─ behavior that is inconsistent with van der Waals or ligand-mediated mechanisms but is a direct consequence of depletion control. Having established and validated the mechanism, we demonstrate that the same depletion framework can be deliberately activated in purified dispersions and transferred across nanocrystal systems of different composition and shape, including anisotropic and binary assemblies. These results establish precursor-derived depletion as a general and chemically grounded mechanism for nanocrystal superlattice formation, and show that collective ordering can be programmed through the surrounding medium rather than through particle surface modification.","lang":"eng"}],"acknowledged_ssus":[{"_id":"EM-Fac"},{"_id":"NMR"},{"_id":"LifeSc"}],"volume":148,"page":"31245-31252","publication_identifier":{"eissn":["1520-5126"],"issn":["0002-7863"]},"user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","scopus_import":"1","fulldoi":"https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6c07859","publication":"Journal of the AmericanChemical Society","article_processing_charge":"Yes (via OA deal)","oa":1,"file":[{"file_name":"2026_JACS_Lee.pdf","relation":"main_file","success":1,"file_id":"22646","checksum":"063314ae5ac4225ebd4436aa8707d113","creator":"dernst","content_type":"application/pdf","access_level":"open_access","file_size":6564594,"date_updated":"2026-08-04T06:40:17Z","date_created":"2026-08-04T06:40:17Z"}],"file_date_updated":"2026-08-04T06:40:17Z","article_type":"original","issue":"29","department":[{"_id":"MaIb"},{"_id":"LifeSc"},{"_id":"GradSch"},{"_id":"CaGo"}],"publication_status":"published","has_accepted_license":"1","researchdata_availability":"no","day":"15","month":"07"},{"tmp":{"legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","short":"CC BY (4.0)","image":"/images/cc_by.png","name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)"},"das_tickbox":"0","publisher":"American Chemical Society","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"corr_author":"1","title":"Exploiting mismatch strain and the β–α phase transition for microstructural engineering in thermoelectric Ag2Se","date_published":"2026-08-14T00:00:00Z","doi":"10.1021/acsenergylett.6c01499","project":[{"name":"HighTE: The Werner Siemens Laboratory for the High Throughput Discovery of Semiconductors for Waste Heat Recovery","_id":"9B8F7476-BA93-11EA-9121-9846C619BF3A"}],"date_created":"2026-08-18T11:34:03Z","oa_version":"Published Version","ddc":["540"],"date_updated":"2026-08-19T05:53:33Z","citation":{"ista":"Liu Y, Kleinhanns T, Spadaro MC, Genç A, Horta S, Jakhar N, Costanzo T, Dutkiewicz E, Arbiol J, Hong M, Ibáñez M. 2026. Exploiting mismatch strain and the β–α phase transition for microstructural engineering in thermoelectric Ag2Se. ACS Energy Letters. 11(8), 5752–5762.","apa":"Liu, Y., Kleinhanns, T., Spadaro, M. C., Genç, A., Horta, S., Jakhar, N., … Ibáñez, M. (2026). Exploiting mismatch strain and the β–α phase transition for microstructural engineering in thermoelectric Ag2Se. <i>ACS Energy Letters</i>. American Chemical Society. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.6c01499\">https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.6c01499</a>","ama":"Liu Y, Kleinhanns T, Spadaro MC, et al. Exploiting mismatch strain and the β–α phase transition for microstructural engineering in thermoelectric Ag2Se. <i>ACS Energy Letters</i>. 2026;11(8):5752-5762. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.6c01499\">10.1021/acsenergylett.6c01499</a>","mla":"Liu, Yu, et al. “Exploiting Mismatch Strain and the β–α Phase Transition for Microstructural Engineering in Thermoelectric Ag2Se.” <i>ACS Energy Letters</i>, vol. 11, no. 8, American Chemical Society, 2026, pp. 5752–62, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.6c01499\">10.1021/acsenergylett.6c01499</a>.","ieee":"Y. Liu <i>et al.</i>, “Exploiting mismatch strain and the β–α phase transition for microstructural engineering in thermoelectric Ag2Se,” <i>ACS Energy Letters</i>, vol. 11, no. 8. American Chemical Society, pp. 5752–5762, 2026.","chicago":"Liu, Yu, Tobias Kleinhanns, Maria Chiara Spadaro, Aziz Genç, Sharona Horta, Navita Jakhar, Tommaso Costanzo, et al. “Exploiting Mismatch Strain and the β–α Phase Transition for Microstructural Engineering in Thermoelectric Ag2Se.” <i>ACS Energy Letters</i>. American Chemical Society, 2026. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.6c01499\">https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.6c01499</a>.","short":"Y. Liu, T. Kleinhanns, M.C. Spadaro, A. Genç, S. Horta, N. Jakhar, T. Costanzo, E. Dutkiewicz, J. Arbiol, M. Hong, M. Ibáñez, ACS Energy Letters 11 (2026) 5752–5762."},"intvolume":"        11","OA_place":"publisher","year":"2026","OA_type":"hybrid","quality_controlled":"1","status":"public","type":"journal_article","abstract":[{"text":"Silver selenide (Ag2Se) is a promising near-room-temperature thermoelectric material, but its narrow stoichiometric window and β–α phase transition complicate reproducible microstructure control. Here, we present a mismatch-assisted microstructure engineering strategy in which Ag2Se particles are treated with polyanionic ZnSe complexes and consolidated through the β–α transition to introduce ZnSe nanoprecipitates, Ag2Se/ZnSe interfaces, and local strain fields. The crystallographic mismatch between ZnSe and Ag2Se, together with the Zn2+/Ag+ size difference, amplifies phase-transition-induced deformation and promotes high-density dislocations with periodic strain modulations. This defect architecture suppresses grain coarsening, removes excess Ag, limits Ag-interstitial formation, and reduces lattice thermal conductivity through lattice softening and multiscale phonon scattering. Ag2Se–4%ZnSe nanocomposites achieve a peak zTmax of 1.13 at 369 K and a zTavg of 1.08 from 300 to 380 K, demonstrating mismatch-driven defect engineering through the β–α phase transition as a route for optimizing Ag2Se-based thermoelectrics.","lang":"eng"}],"_id":"22734","acknowledgement":"Open access funding provided by Institute of Science and Technology Austria. M.I. acknowledges financial support from ISTA and the Werner Siemens Foundation. The Scientific Service Units (SSU) of ISTA supported this work through resources provided by the Electron Microscopy Facility (EMF), the Lab Support Facility (LSF), the Nanofabrication Facility (NNF), and the Mass Spectrometry Facility. Y.L. acknowledges funding from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (grant no. 22209034) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (JZ2024HGTB0239). M.H. acknowledges funding from Australian Research Council (FT230100316), and the high-performance computing resources provided by National Computational Infrastructure (it39) and Pawsey Supercomputing Centre (pawsey1075). ICN2 acknowledges funding from Generalitat de Catalunya 2021SGR00457. The authors thank support from the project AMaDE (PID2023-149158OB-C43), funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/ and by the “ERDF Away of making Europe”, by the “European Union”. ICN2 is supported by the Severo Ochoa program from Spanish MCIN/AEI (grant no.: CEX2021-001214-S) and is funded by the CERCA Programme/Generalitat de Catalunya. Authors acknowledge the use of instrumentation as well as the technical advice provided by the Joint Electron Microscopy Center at ALBA (JEMCA). ICN2 acknowledges funding from Grant IU16-014206 (METCAM-FIB) funded by the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), with the support of the Ministry of Research and Universities, Generalitat de Catalunya. ICN2 is founding member of e-DREAM. (91)","PlanS_conform":"1","author":[{"orcid":"0000-0001-7313-6740","id":"2A70014E-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","full_name":"Liu, Yu","last_name":"Liu","first_name":"Yu"},{"first_name":"Tobias","last_name":"Kleinhanns","orcid":"0000-0003-1537-7436","id":"8BD9DE16-AB3C-11E9-9C8C-2A03E6697425","full_name":"Kleinhanns, Tobias"},{"full_name":"Spadaro, Maria Chiara","last_name":"Spadaro","first_name":"Maria Chiara"},{"full_name":"Genç, Aziz","last_name":"Genç","first_name":"Aziz"},{"first_name":"Sharona","last_name":"Horta","id":"03a7e858-01b1-11ec-8b71-99ae6c4a05bc","full_name":"Horta, Sharona"},{"orcid":"0000-0001-7408-8197","full_name":"Navita, Navita","id":"6ebe278d-ba0b-11ee-8184-f34cdc671de4","first_name":"Navita","last_name":"Navita"},{"full_name":"Costanzo, Tommaso","id":"D93824F4-D9BA-11E9-BB12-F207E6697425","orcid":"0000-0001-9732-3815","first_name":"Tommaso","last_name":"Costanzo"},{"last_name":"Dutkiewicz","first_name":"Ewelina","id":"0601cc46-c082-11ec-9b07-bb29641d1de9","full_name":"Dutkiewicz, Ewelina"},{"full_name":"Arbiol, Jordi","first_name":"Jordi","last_name":"Arbiol"},{"full_name":"Hong, Min","last_name":"Hong","first_name":"Min"},{"id":"43C61214-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","full_name":"Ibáñez, Maria","orcid":"0000-0001-5013-2843","last_name":"Ibáñez","first_name":"Maria"}],"supplementarymaterial":"yes","user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","acknowledged_ssus":[{"_id":"EM-Fac"},{"_id":"LifeSc"},{"_id":"NanoFab"},{"_id":"MassSpec"}],"volume":11,"publication_identifier":{"eissn":["2380-8195"]},"page":"5752-5762","oa":1,"file":[{"date_created":"2026-08-19T05:52:41Z","access_level":"open_access","content_type":"application/pdf","date_updated":"2026-08-19T05:52:41Z","file_size":6806815,"checksum":"4d75c5a79d112c845c9eecba8838db38","creator":"dernst","success":1,"file_id":"22736","file_name":"2026_ACSEnergyLetters_Liu.pdf","relation":"main_file"}],"file_date_updated":"2026-08-19T05:52:41Z","article_type":"letter_note","fulldoi":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.6c01499","scopus_import":"1","publication":"ACS Energy Letters","article_processing_charge":"Yes (via OA deal)","has_accepted_license":"1","researchdata_availability":"no","day":"14","month":"08","issue":"8","department":[{"_id":"MassSpec"},{"_id":"MaIb"},{"_id":"GradSch"},{"_id":"EM-Fac"}],"publication_status":"published"},{"researchdata_availability":"no","month":"08","day":"31","dataavailabilitystatement":"The data that support the findings of this study are available within the manuscript and the corresponding supplementary information (SI). Data are available upon request from the authors. Supplementary information is available. See DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/d6ta05844b.","department":[{"_id":"MaIb"}],"publication_status":"epub_ahead","article_type":"original","publication":"Journal of Materials Chemistry A","article_processing_charge":"No","fulldoi":"https://doi.org/10.1039/d6ta05844b","scopus_import":"1","user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","publication_identifier":{"eissn":["2050-7496"],"issn":["2050-7488"]},"abstract":[{"text":"Manganese-based aqueous zinc-ion batteries (AZIBs) have emerged as promising candidates for large-scale energy storage owing to their low cost, intrinsic safety, and the abundance of constituent elements. However, their practical deployment is still restricted by severe capacity fading caused by Jahn–Teller-induced structural instability and sluggish Zn2+ transport in the cathode. Although surface coating, heteroatom doping, and structural regulation have been widely explored to improve Mn-based cathodes, these approaches may suffer from increased interfacial resistance, compositional complexity, or limited control over the intrinsic electronic structure. In this context, oxygen-vacancy engineering offers a more direct route to modulate local coordination environments and accelerate Zn2+/H+ storage kinetics. Herein, lattice-level defect engineering of a dense Mn2O3 host is achieved through a metal–organic framework-derived synthesis followed by mild secondary annealing. The introduced oxygen vacancies regulate the local electronic structure and coordination environment, thereby facilitating Zn2+ diffusion, accelerating charge-transfer kinetics, and improving electrochemical reversibility. Combined experimental and theoretical investigations further show that oxygen-vacancy engineering enhances electronic conductivity, reduces the Zn2+ migration barrier, and enables a reversible dual-ion storage mechanism involving both H+ and Zn2+. Benefiting from these effects, the Zn‖Vo-Mn2O3 battery delivers a high specific capacity of 359 mAh g−1 at 0.3 A g−1, maintains 210 mAh g−1 at 6 A g−1, and retains 74.3% of its capacity after 10 000 cycles at 12 A g−1 after only 150 s of initial preconditioning. This work highlights oxygen-vacancy engineering as an effective route to enhancing the kinetic and structural stability of Mn-based cathodes for advanced AZIBs.","lang":"eng"}],"type":"journal_article","supplementarymaterial":"yes","author":[{"full_name":"Yu, Ao","last_name":"Yu","first_name":"Ao"},{"full_name":"Chang, Xingqi","last_name":"Chang","first_name":"Xingqi"},{"full_name":"Lu, Xuan","first_name":"Xuan","last_name":"Lu"},{"first_name":"Ren","last_name":"He","id":"366c4efa-f61c-11f0-808b-d12a4547ac69","full_name":"He, Ren"},{"last_name":"Yang","first_name":"Linlin","full_name":"Yang, Linlin"},{"last_name":"Chai","first_name":"Jiali","full_name":"Chai, Jiali"},{"first_name":"Xiaoyu","last_name":"Bi","full_name":"Bi, Xiaoyu"},{"full_name":"Chacón-Borrero, Jesús","last_name":"Chacón-Borrero","first_name":"Jesús"},{"first_name":"Karol V.","last_name":"Mejia-Centeno","full_name":"Mejia-Centeno, Karol V."},{"full_name":"Llorca, Jordi","last_name":"Llorca","first_name":"Jordi"},{"full_name":"Villalobos-Portillo, Eduardo","last_name":"Villalobos-Portillo","first_name":"Eduardo"},{"last_name":"Liu","first_name":"Qirong","full_name":"Liu, Qirong"},{"first_name":"Jian","last_name":"Shang","full_name":"Shang, Jian"},{"full_name":"Cabot, Andreu","first_name":"Andreu","last_name":"Cabot"}],"_id":"22965","acknowledgement":"Ao Y. acknowledges financial support from the China Scholarship Council (No. 202208320041), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 22475231), and the Shenzhen Science and Technology Planning Project (No. KJZD20230923115227054). The XAS experiments were performed in collaboration with ALBA staff at the NOTOS beamline of ALBA Synchrotron (experiment ID: 2024028418), Barcelona, Spain. JL is a Serra Húnter Fellow and is grateful to the Academia Excellence program (Generalitat de Catalunya) and to the project PID2024-156765OB-C21 funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER), and to the María de Maeztu Units of Excellence Programme CEX2023-001300 M, funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033.","year":"2026","OA_type":"closed access","quality_controlled":"1","status":"public","citation":{"ista":"Yu A, Chang X, Lu X, He R, Yang L, Chai J, Bi X, Chacón-Borrero J, Mejia-Centeno KV, Llorca J, Villalobos-Portillo E, Liu Q, Shang J, Cabot A. 2026. Lattice-level defect engineering of dense Mn2O3 hosts unlocks fast H+/Zn2+ storage and long-life aqueous zinc-ion batteries. Journal of Materials Chemistry A.","apa":"Yu, A., Chang, X., Lu, X., He, R., Yang, L., Chai, J., … Cabot, A. (2026). Lattice-level defect engineering of dense Mn2O3 hosts unlocks fast H+/Zn2+ storage and long-life aqueous zinc-ion batteries. <i>Journal of Materials Chemistry A</i>. Royal Society of Chemistry. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1039/d6ta05844b\">https://doi.org/10.1039/d6ta05844b</a>","ama":"Yu A, Chang X, Lu X, et al. Lattice-level defect engineering of dense Mn2O3 hosts unlocks fast H+/Zn2+ storage and long-life aqueous zinc-ion batteries. <i>Journal of Materials Chemistry A</i>. 2026. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1039/d6ta05844b\">10.1039/d6ta05844b</a>","mla":"Yu, Ao, et al. “Lattice-Level Defect Engineering of Dense Mn2O3 Hosts Unlocks Fast H+/Zn2+ Storage and Long-Life Aqueous Zinc-Ion Batteries.” <i>Journal of Materials Chemistry A</i>, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2026, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1039/d6ta05844b\">10.1039/d6ta05844b</a>.","ieee":"A. Yu <i>et al.</i>, “Lattice-level defect engineering of dense Mn2O3 hosts unlocks fast H+/Zn2+ storage and long-life aqueous zinc-ion batteries,” <i>Journal of Materials Chemistry A</i>. Royal Society of Chemistry, 2026.","chicago":"Yu, Ao, Xingqi Chang, Xuan Lu, Ren He, Linlin Yang, Jiali Chai, Xiaoyu Bi, et al. “Lattice-Level Defect Engineering of Dense Mn2O3 Hosts Unlocks Fast H+/Zn2+ Storage and Long-Life Aqueous Zinc-Ion Batteries.” <i>Journal of Materials Chemistry A</i>. Royal Society of Chemistry, 2026. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1039/d6ta05844b\">https://doi.org/10.1039/d6ta05844b</a>.","short":"A. Yu, X. Chang, X. Lu, R. He, L. Yang, J. Chai, X. Bi, J. Chacón-Borrero, K.V. Mejia-Centeno, J. Llorca, E. Villalobos-Portillo, Q. Liu, J. Shang, A. Cabot, Journal of Materials Chemistry A (2026)."},"date_published":"2026-08-31T00:00:00Z","doi":"10.1039/d6ta05844b","title":"Lattice-level defect engineering of dense Mn2O3 hosts unlocks fast H+/Zn2+ storage and long-life aqueous zinc-ion batteries","date_updated":"2026-10-06T10:34:27Z","oa_version":"None","date_created":"2026-09-20T22:01:48Z","das_tickbox":"1","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"publisher":"Royal Society of Chemistry"},{"abstract":[{"text":"Alkali salts are widely used in solution processing, yet the corresponding cations are often assumed to remain in the liquid phase. Here, we show that alkali ions introduced during the solution synthesis of SnSe are retained through particle isolation and continue to influence the material during subsequent thermal processing, where they shape the evolution of the final polycrystalline material. Different SnSe powders were prepared using Li+, Na+, and K+ precursors, as well as tetramethylammonium (TMA+) precursors as a nonalkali reference for comparison, and all samples were consolidated under identical conditions. Although all three alkali ions were found in the matrix, at grain boundaries, and in segregated nanoscale regions, they partitioned differently and resulted in distinct grain sizes, defect distributions, and therefore transport properties. Li induced the strongest grain size heterogeneity and the lowest energy barriers, Na the best overall balance between carrier concentration and mobility, and K the broadest alkali-rich grain boundary regions along with the strongest interfacial penalty to charge carrier transport. These results show that residual alkali ions are not just remnants of solution synthesis but active determinants of microstructure and thermoelectric performance in SnSe.","lang":"eng"}],"type":"journal_article","supplementarymaterial":"yes","_id":"22967","acknowledgement":"ISTA and the Werner Siemens Foundation financially supported this work. The Scientific Service Units (SSU) of ISTA supported this research through resources provided by the Electron Microscopy Facility (EMF), Juan Aguilera Servin from the Nanofabrication facility (NNF). Special acknowledgments to the Ibá\r\nez group for their fruitful discussions and insights. K.M. acknowledges the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 101034413 and PETRAIII at DESY for the synchrotron X-ray measurements under proposal No. I-20241048 EC. JL is a Serra Húnter Fellow and is grateful to the Academia Excellence program (Generalitat de Catalunya), project PID2024-156765OB-C21 funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER), and María de Maeztu Units of Excellence Programme CEX2023-001300 M, funded by MCIN/AEI 10.13039/501100011033. VG and SD acknowledge the use of resources of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, a DOE Office of Science User Facility supported by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. Y.L. acknowledges funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 754411, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (Grants No. 22209034).","author":[{"last_name":"Fiedler","first_name":"Christine","full_name":"Fiedler, Christine","id":"bd3fceba-dc74-11ea-a0a7-c17f71817366"},{"last_name":"Horta","first_name":"Sharona","full_name":"Horta, Sharona","id":"03a7e858-01b1-11ec-8b71-99ae6c4a05bc"},{"id":"6ebe278d-ba0b-11ee-8184-f34cdc671de4","full_name":"Navita, Navita","orcid":"0000-0001-7408-8197","first_name":"Navita","last_name":"Navita"},{"last_name":"Maji","first_name":"Krishnendu","id":"76bc9e9f-ba0b-11ee-8184-90edabd17a58","full_name":"Maji, Krishnendu"},{"orcid":"0000-0003-1537-7436","full_name":"Kleinhanns, Tobias","id":"8BD9DE16-AB3C-11E9-9C8C-2A03E6697425","last_name":"Kleinhanns","first_name":"Tobias"},{"full_name":"Llorca, Jordi","first_name":"Jordi","last_name":"Llorca"},{"id":"0d37923a-aca1-11ef-951f-fd411b71d5f0","full_name":"Wang, Qi","first_name":"Qi","last_name":"Wang"},{"id":"1ffff7cd-ed76-11ed-8d5f-be5e7c364eb9","full_name":"Ramon, Maria Garcia","first_name":"Maria Garcia","last_name":"Ramon"},{"last_name":"Das","first_name":"Sambit","full_name":"Das, Sambit"},{"last_name":"Gavini","first_name":"Vikram","full_name":"Gavini, Vikram"},{"full_name":"Liu, Yu","id":"2A70014E-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","orcid":"0000-0001-7313-6740","first_name":"Yu","last_name":"Liu"},{"full_name":"Ibáñez, Maria","id":"43C61214-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","orcid":"0000-0001-5013-2843","first_name":"Maria","last_name":"Ibáñez"}],"PlanS_conform":"1","user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","publication_identifier":{"issn":["0897-4756"],"eissn":["1520-5002"]},"page":"9323–9332","volume":38,"acknowledged_ssus":[{"_id":"EM-Fac"},{"_id":"NanoFab"}],"article_type":"original","file":[{"relation":"main_file","file_name":"2026_ChemistryMaterials_Fiedler.pdf","success":1,"file_id":"23063","creator":"dernst","checksum":"15e7866ca4fd57f5526737945651a6f2","file_size":7461570,"date_updated":"2026-10-06T12:11:04Z","access_level":"open_access","content_type":"application/pdf","date_created":"2026-10-06T12:11:04Z"}],"file_date_updated":"2026-10-06T12:11:04Z","oa":1,"article_processing_charge":"Yes (via OA deal)","publication":"Chemistry of Materials","fulldoi":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.6c01284","scopus_import":"1","month":"09","day":"22","has_accepted_license":"1","researchdata_availability":"no","publication_status":"published","department":[{"_id":"MaIb"},{"_id":"GradSch"},{"_id":"NanoFab"}],"issue":"18","publisher":"American Chemical Society","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"das_tickbox":"0","tmp":{"legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","short":"CC BY (4.0)","image":"/images/cc_by.png","name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)"},"doi":"10.1021/acs.chemmater.6c01284","date_published":"2026-09-22T00:00:00Z","title":"Alkali ions retained from synthesis govern microstructure and transport in solution-processed SnSe","corr_author":"1","external_id":{"pmid":["42787739"]},"date_updated":"2026-10-06T12:16:03Z","pmid":1,"ddc":["540"],"oa_version":"Published Version","date_created":"2026-09-21T10:33:48Z","project":[{"name":"HighTE: The Werner Siemens Laboratory for the High Throughput Discovery of Semiconductors for Waste Heat Recovery","_id":"9B8F7476-BA93-11EA-9121-9846C619BF3A"},{"grant_number":"101034413","call_identifier":"H2020","_id":"fc2ed2f7-9c52-11eb-aca3-c01059dda49c","name":"IST-BRIDGE: International postdoctoral program"},{"name":"ISTplus - Postdoctoral Fellowships","call_identifier":"H2020","_id":"260C2330-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425","grant_number":"754411"}],"citation":{"ista":"Fiedler C, Horta S, Jakhar N, Maji K, Kleinhanns T, Llorca J, Wang Q, Ramon MG, Das S, Gavini V, Liu Y, Ibáñez M. 2026. 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Li|Li symmetric cells using a 40-µm-thick SPE cycle stably for 2500 h at 0.2 mA cm−2 with a low overpotential of 30 mV. In Li|LiFePO4 (LFP) full cells, the electrolyte enables 86.8% capacity retention after 1000 cycles at 0.5 C and maintains stable operation at 130 °C. Flexible pouch-cell tests further confirm improved safety and durability under harsh conditions, highlighting the potential of this SPE design for high-voltage lithium metal batteries."}],"PlanS_conform":"1","_id":"22966","author":[{"last_name":"Zhang","first_name":"Shengnan","full_name":"Zhang, Shengnan"},{"first_name":"Guifang","last_name":"Zeng","full_name":"Zeng, Guifang"},{"last_name":"Yu","first_name":"Jing","full_name":"Yu, Jing"},{"last_name":"Horta","first_name":"Sharona","id":"03a7e858-01b1-11ec-8b71-99ae6c4a05bc","full_name":"Horta, Sharona"},{"first_name":"Xuan","last_name":"Lu","full_name":"Lu, Xuan"},{"full_name":"Sun, Qing","last_name":"Sun","first_name":"Qing"},{"full_name":"Ren, Yuchuan","last_name":"Ren","first_name":"Yuchuan"},{"orcid":"0000-0001-5013-2843","id":"43C61214-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","full_name":"Ibáñez, Maria","first_name":"Maria","last_name":"Ibáñez"},{"first_name":"Jordi","last_name":"Llorca","full_name":"Llorca, Jordi"},{"last_name":"Biendicho","first_name":"Jordi Jacas","full_name":"Biendicho, Jordi Jacas"},{"last_name":"Arbiol","first_name":"Jordi","full_name":"Arbiol, Jordi"},{"last_name":"Ci","first_name":"Lijie","full_name":"Ci, Lijie"},{"full_name":"Cabot, Andreu","first_name":"Andreu","last_name":"Cabot"}],"acknowledgement":"This work was financially supported by the Generalitat de Catalunya (2021SGR01581), the Major Innovation Projects for Integrating Science, Education & Industry of Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences) (Grant No. 2025ZDZX19) and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. 2026M790106). ICN2 is supported by the Severo Ochoa program from Spanish MCIN/AEI (Grant No.: CEX2021-001214-S) and is funded by the CERCA Programme/Generalitat de Catalunya. ICN2 acknowledges funding from Generalitat de Catalunya 2021SGR00457. The authors thank support from the project AMaDE (PID2023-149158OB-C43), funded by MCIN/AEI/https://doi.org/10.13039/501100011033/ and by “ERDF A way of making Europe”, by the “European Union”. Part of the present work has been performed in the framework of Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Materials Science PhD program. JY has received funding from the CSC-UAB PhD scholarship program. ISTA co-authors acknowledge funding from the Werner Siemens Foundation. Authors acknowledge the use of instrumentation as well as the technical advice provided by the Joint Electron Microscopy Center at ALBA (JEMCA). ICN2 acknowledges funding from Grant IU16-014206 (METCAM-FIB) funded by the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), with the support of the Ministry of Research and Universities, Generalitat de Catalunya. ICN2 is founding member of e-DREAM [51]. JL is a Serra Húnter Fellow and is grateful to the Academia Excellence program (Generalitat de Catalunya) and to projects MICIU/FEDER PID2024-156765OB-C21 and Maria de Maeztu Units of Excellence Programme CEX2023-001300-M funded by MCIN/AEI https://doi.org/10.13039/501100011033.Open Access funding provided by CERCA through the CRUE-CSIC agreement with Springer Nature.","supplementarymaterial":"yes","user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","publication_identifier":{"issn":["2524-7921"],"eissn":["2524-793X"]},"oa":1,"article_type":"original","fulldoi":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s42765-026-00775-2","main_file_link":[{"open_access":"1","url":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s42765-026-00775-2"}],"scopus_import":"1","publication":"Advanced Fiber Materials","article_processing_charge":"Yes (via OA deal)","has_accepted_license":"1","researchdata_availability":"upon request","month":"09","day":"08","dataavailabilitystatement":"The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.","publication_status":"epub_ahead","department":[{"_id":"MaIb"}],"tmp":{"legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","short":"CC BY (4.0)","image":"/images/cc_by.png","name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0)"},"das_tickbox":"1","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"publisher":"Springer","title":"Reinforced poly(ionic liquid)-in-salt electrolytes for highly stable solid-state Lithium metal batteries","date_published":"2026-09-08T00:00:00Z","doi":"10.1007/s42765-026-00775-2","project":[{"name":"HighTE: The Werner Siemens Laboratory for the High Throughput Discovery of Semiconductors for Waste Heat Recovery","_id":"9B8F7476-BA93-11EA-9121-9846C619BF3A"}],"oa_version":"Published Version","date_created":"2026-09-20T22:01:49Z","ddc":["540"],"date_updated":"2026-10-06T11:57:17Z","citation":{"ieee":"S. Zhang <i>et al.</i>, “Reinforced poly(ionic liquid)-in-salt electrolytes for highly stable solid-state Lithium metal batteries,” <i>Advanced Fiber Materials</i>. Springer, 2026.","mla":"Zhang, Shengnan, et al. “Reinforced Poly(Ionic Liquid)-in-Salt Electrolytes for Highly Stable Solid-State Lithium Metal Batteries.” <i>Advanced Fiber Materials</i>, Springer, 2026, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1007/s42765-026-00775-2\">10.1007/s42765-026-00775-2</a>.","short":"S. Zhang, G. Zeng, J. Yu, S. Horta, X. Lu, Q. Sun, Y. Ren, M. Ibáñez, J. Llorca, J.J. Biendicho, J. Arbiol, L. Ci, A. Cabot, Advanced Fiber Materials (2026).","chicago":"Zhang, Shengnan, Guifang Zeng, Jing Yu, Sharona Horta, Xuan Lu, Qing Sun, Yuchuan Ren, et al. “Reinforced Poly(Ionic Liquid)-in-Salt Electrolytes for Highly Stable Solid-State Lithium Metal Batteries.” <i>Advanced Fiber Materials</i>. 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Advanced Fiber Materials."},"year":"2026","OA_place":"publisher","OA_type":"hybrid","quality_controlled":"1","status":"public"},{"citation":{"mla":"Xue, Qian, et al. “Dilute Interstitial Carbon Stabilization of Highly Strained Metastable HCP Nickel for Enhanced Electrocatalysis.” <i>Angewandte Chemie International Edition</i>, e2874510, Wiley, 2026, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.2874510\">10.1002/anie.2874510</a>.","ieee":"Q. Xue <i>et al.</i>, “Dilute interstitial carbon stabilization of highly strained metastable HCP Nickel for enhanced electrocatalysis,” <i>Angewandte Chemie International Edition</i>. Wiley, 2026.","short":"Q. Xue, J. Yu, J. Dai, L. Yang, X. Bi, Y. Ren, J. Zhang, X. Qi, Y. Wang, Y. Xu, J. Arbiol, R. He, X. Qi, A. Cabot, Angewandte Chemie International Edition (2026).","chicago":"Xue, Qian, Jing Yu, Juguo Dai, Linlin Yang, Xiaoyu Bi, Yuchuan Ren, Jia Zhang, et al. “Dilute Interstitial Carbon Stabilization of Highly Strained Metastable HCP Nickel for Enhanced Electrocatalysis.” <i>Angewandte Chemie International Edition</i>. Wiley, 2026. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.2874510\">https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.2874510</a>.","apa":"Xue, Q., Yu, J., Dai, J., Yang, L., Bi, X., Ren, Y., … Cabot, A. (2026). Dilute interstitial carbon stabilization of highly strained metastable HCP Nickel for enhanced electrocatalysis. <i>Angewandte Chemie International Edition</i>. Wiley. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.2874510\">https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.2874510</a>","ama":"Xue Q, Yu J, Dai J, et al. Dilute interstitial carbon stabilization of highly strained metastable HCP Nickel for enhanced electrocatalysis. <i>Angewandte Chemie International Edition</i>. 2026. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.2874510\">10.1002/anie.2874510</a>","ista":"Xue Q, Yu J, Dai J, Yang L, Bi X, Ren Y, Zhang J, Qi X, Wang Y, Xu Y, Arbiol J, He R, Qi X, Cabot A. 2026. Dilute interstitial carbon stabilization of highly strained metastable HCP Nickel for enhanced electrocatalysis. Angewandte Chemie International Edition., e2874510."},"quality_controlled":"1","status":"public","year":"2026","das_tickbox":"1","publisher":"Wiley","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"keyword":["electrocatalysis","HCP nickel","interstitial carbon","kinetic trapping","lattice strain engineering","urea oxidation reaction"],"oa_version":"None","date_created":"2026-09-27T22:01:53Z","date_updated":"2026-10-07T08:33:58Z","pmid":1,"corr_author":"1","external_id":{"pmid":["42745541"]},"title":"Dilute interstitial carbon stabilization of highly strained metastable HCP Nickel for enhanced electrocatalysis","date_published":"2026-09-15T00:00:00Z","doi":"10.1002/anie.2874510","scopus_import":"1","fulldoi":"https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.2874510","publication":"Angewandte Chemie International Edition","article_processing_charge":"No","article_number":"e2874510","article_type":"original","dataavailabilitystatement":"The data that support the findings of this study are available from thecorresponding author upon reasonable request.","department":[{"_id":"MaIb"}],"publication_status":"epub_ahead","researchdata_availability":"upon request","month":"09","day":"15","acknowledgement":"Q. X., J. Y., X. B., Y. R., J. Z. and X. Q. thank the China Scholarship Council (CSC) for the scholarship support. These experiments were performed at BL22 CLAESS (proposal 20250340148) and BL01 MIRAS(proposal 20250340424, 20250370488) beamlines at ALBA Synchrotron with the collaboration of ALBA staff. The authors acknowledge the use of instrumentation as well as the technical advice provided by JEMCA. This research was financially supported by the Science and Technology Research Program of Chongqing Municipal Education Com-mission (No. KJZD-K202401110) and the Natural Science Foundation of Chongqing (No. CSTB2023NSCQ-MSX0378). ICN2 is supported by the Severo Ochoa program from Spanish MCIN / AEI (Grant No.: CEX2021-001214-S) and is funded by the CERCA Programme / Generalitat de Catalunya. ICN2 acknowledges funding from Generalitat de Catalunya2021SGR00457. The authors thank support from the project AMaDE(PID2023-149158OB-C43), funded by MCIN/ AEI/10.13039/501100011033/and by “ERDF A way of making Europe”, by the “European Union”.ICN2 acknowledges funding from Grant IU16-014206 (METCAM-FIB)funded by the European Union through the European Regional Devel-opment Fund (ERDF), with the support of the Ministry of Research and Universities, Generalitat de Catalunya. ICN2 is founding member ofe-DREAM.","_id":"23004","author":[{"first_name":"Qian","last_name":"Xue","full_name":"Xue, Qian"},{"full_name":"Yu, Jing","last_name":"Yu","first_name":"Jing"},{"full_name":"Dai, Juguo","first_name":"Juguo","last_name":"Dai"},{"last_name":"Yang","first_name":"Linlin","full_name":"Yang, Linlin"},{"full_name":"Bi, Xiaoyu","first_name":"Xiaoyu","last_name":"Bi"},{"first_name":"Yuchuan","last_name":"Ren","full_name":"Ren, Yuchuan"},{"first_name":"Jia","last_name":"Zhang","full_name":"Zhang, Jia"},{"last_name":"Qi","first_name":"Xuede","full_name":"Qi, Xuede"},{"full_name":"Wang, Yudi","first_name":"Yudi","last_name":"Wang"},{"full_name":"Xu, Ying","first_name":"Ying","last_name":"Xu"},{"full_name":"Arbiol, Jordi","last_name":"Arbiol","first_name":"Jordi"},{"last_name":"He","first_name":"Ren","full_name":"He, Ren","id":"366c4efa-f61c-11f0-808b-d12a4547ac69"},{"full_name":"Qi, Xueqiang","last_name":"Qi","first_name":"Xueqiang"},{"first_name":"Andreu","last_name":"Cabot","full_name":"Cabot, Andreu"}],"supplementarymaterial":"yes","type":"journal_article","abstract":[{"text":"Lattice strain engineering can regulate the electronic structure of electrocatalysts, but stabilizing distorted metastable phases remains challenging. Here, we report an N,N-dimethylformamide-assisted strategy for synthesizing metastable hexagonal close-packed (HCP) Ni nanoparticles with local lattice-spacing deviations reaching approximately 5.2%. Structural and spectroscopic analyses support a dilute interstitial-carbon-stabilized HCP Ni framework dominated by expanded metallic Ni─Ni coordination rather than ordered Ni3C. Carbon-associated perturbations inhibit structural relaxation and retain the distorted HCP framework. Operando x-ray absorption and infrared spectroscopies indicate the formation of a NiOOH-like working surface coupled to an HCP-derived subsurface framework, accompanied by potential-dependent changes in the interfacial hydrogen-bonding environment and urea-derived species. Calculations using idealized metallic models show that HCP lattice strain induces a Ni d-band upshift, anisotropic Ni─Ni bonding, and localized charge redistribution, modifying adsorption-energy trends for the urea oxidation reaction. The optimized HCP-Ni delivers an apparent steady-state Tafel slope of 26.95 mV dec−1, over twice the electrochemically active surface area-normalized activity of the face-centered cubic-containing controls, and approximately 98% apparent urea conversion after 22 h. It sustains current for over 120 h in three-electrode testing and enables over 400 h of urea-assisted zinc–air battery cycling. 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L. acknowledges funding from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 22209034), the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Project of Overseas Returnees in Anhui Province (No. 2022LCX002), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. JZ2024HGTB0239). K. H. L. acknowledges financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 22208293). M. I. acknowledge financial support from ISTA and the Werner Siemens Foundation. M. H. acknowledges funding from Australian Research Council (No. FT230100316). L. L. H. and S. H. W. acknowledge the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Nos. 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This study presents a detailed comparative analysis of three strategies to promote the electrical transport properties of Cu3SbSe4 through Sn doping: conventional Sn atomic doping, surface treatment with SnSe molecular complexes, and blending with SnSe nanocrystals to form nanocomposites, all followed by annealing and hot pressing under identical conditions. Our results reveal that a surface treatment using SnSe molecular complexes significantly enhances TE performance over atomic doping and nanocomposite formation, achieving a power factor of 1.1 mW·m−1·K−2 and a maximum dimensionless figure of merit zT value of 0.80 at 640 K, representing an excellent performance among Cu3SbSe4-based materials produced via solution-processing methods. This work highlights the effectiveness of surface engineering in optimizing the transport properties of nanostructured materials, demonstrating the versatility and cost-efficiency of solution-based technologies in the development of advanced nanostructured materials for application in the field of TE among others."}],"type":"journal_article","publication_identifier":{"issn":["1998-0124"],"eissn":["1998-0000"]},"volume":18,"user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87"},{"language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"publisher":"Royal Society of Chemistry","oa_version":"None","date_created":"2025-01-19T23:01:52Z","date_updated":"2025-07-10T11:51:27Z","title":"Modulating the solvation structure to enhance amorphous solid electrolyte interface formation for ultra-stable aqueous zinc anode","external_id":{"isi":["001389898000001"]},"date_published":"2025-02-21T00:00:00Z","doi":"10.1039/d4ee03750b","intvolume":"        18","citation":{"ieee":"G. Zeng <i>et al.</i>, “Modulating the solvation structure to enhance amorphous solid electrolyte interface formation for ultra-stable aqueous zinc anode,” <i>Energy and Environmental Science</i>, vol. 18, no. 4. Royal Society of Chemistry, pp. 1683–1695, 2025.","mla":"Zeng, Guifang, et al. “Modulating the Solvation Structure to Enhance Amorphous Solid Electrolyte Interface Formation for Ultra-Stable Aqueous Zinc Anode.” <i>Energy and Environmental Science</i>, vol. 18, no. 4, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2025, pp. 1683–95, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1039/d4ee03750b\">10.1039/d4ee03750b</a>.","short":"G. Zeng, Q. Sun, S. Horta, P.R. Martínez-Alanis, P. Wu, J. Li, S. Wang, M. Ibáñez, Y. Tian, L. Ci, A. Cabot, Energy and Environmental Science 18 (2025) 1683–1695.","chicago":"Zeng, Guifang, Qing Sun, Sharona Horta, Paulina R. Martínez-Alanis, Peng Wu, Jing Li, Shang Wang, et al. “Modulating the Solvation Structure to Enhance Amorphous Solid Electrolyte Interface Formation for Ultra-Stable Aqueous Zinc Anode.” <i>Energy and Environmental Science</i>. Royal Society of Chemistry, 2025. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1039/d4ee03750b\">https://doi.org/10.1039/d4ee03750b</a>.","apa":"Zeng, G., Sun, Q., Horta, S., Martínez-Alanis, P. R., Wu, P., Li, J., … Cabot, A. (2025). Modulating the solvation structure to enhance amorphous solid electrolyte interface formation for ultra-stable aqueous zinc anode. <i>Energy and Environmental Science</i>. Royal Society of Chemistry. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1039/d4ee03750b\">https://doi.org/10.1039/d4ee03750b</a>","ama":"Zeng G, Sun Q, Horta S, et al. Modulating the solvation structure to enhance amorphous solid electrolyte interface formation for ultra-stable aqueous zinc anode. <i>Energy and Environmental Science</i>. 2025;18(4):1683-1695. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1039/d4ee03750b\">10.1039/d4ee03750b</a>","ista":"Zeng G, Sun Q, Horta S, Martínez-Alanis PR, Wu P, Li J, Wang S, Ibáñez M, Tian Y, Ci L, Cabot A. 2025. Modulating the solvation structure to enhance amorphous solid electrolyte interface formation for ultra-stable aqueous zinc anode. Energy and Environmental Science. 18(4), 1683–1695."},"status":"public","quality_controlled":"1","year":"2025","OA_type":"closed access","author":[{"first_name":"Guifang","last_name":"Zeng","full_name":"Zeng, Guifang"},{"full_name":"Sun, Qing","last_name":"Sun","first_name":"Qing"},{"full_name":"Horta, Sharona","id":"03a7e858-01b1-11ec-8b71-99ae6c4a05bc","last_name":"Horta","first_name":"Sharona"},{"first_name":"Paulina R.","last_name":"Martínez-Alanis","full_name":"Martínez-Alanis, Paulina R."},{"last_name":"Wu","first_name":"Peng","full_name":"Wu, Peng"},{"last_name":"Li","first_name":"Jing","full_name":"Li, Jing"},{"full_name":"Wang, Shang","first_name":"Shang","last_name":"Wang"},{"first_name":"Maria","last_name":"Ibáñez","id":"43C61214-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","full_name":"Ibáñez, Maria","orcid":"0000-0001-5013-2843"},{"full_name":"Tian, Yanhong","first_name":"Yanhong","last_name":"Tian"},{"first_name":"Lijie","last_name":"Ci","full_name":"Ci, Lijie"},{"full_name":"Cabot, Andreu","first_name":"Andreu","last_name":"Cabot"}],"_id":"18853","acknowledgement":"The authors acknowledge financial support from the Joint Fund of Henan Province Science and Technology R&D Program (235200810097) and the Generalitat de Catalunya (2021SGR01581). This research was supported by the Scientific Service Units (SSU) of ISTA Austria through resources provided by the Electron Microscopy Facility (EMF) and the Nanofabrication Facility (NFF). G. Z. and J. L. thank the China Scholarship Council (CSC) for the scholarship support.","type":"journal_article","abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"Electrolyte additives are extensively validated effective in mitigating dendrite growth and parasitic reactions in aqueous zinc-ion batteries (AZIBs). Nonetheless, the mechanisms by which additives influence the formation and characteristics of the inorganic solid–electrolyte interphase (SEI) are not yet fully elucidated. Herein, we investigate how Zn(CF3COO)2 additives influence solvation structure and elucidate the mechanism by which these additives promote the dual reduction of anions. Through cryo-transmission electron microscopy analysis, we identified the SEI as a highly amorphous ZnS/ZnF2 phase. This amorphous hybrid SEI demonstrates exceptional stability, mechanical robustness, and high Zn2+ conductivity, effectively mitigating parasitic reactions and enhancing Zn plating/stripping reversibility. Even under elevated current densities, the Zn anode exhibits ultra-stable longevity and ultra-high reversibility. This study provides a comprehensive understanding of the intrinsic mechanisms governing solvation structure modulation that lead to the formation of amorphous hybrid SEI, underscoring their efficacy in enhancing the performance and durability of AZIBs."}],"acknowledged_ssus":[{"_id":"EM-Fac"},{"_id":"NanoFab"}],"volume":18,"publication_identifier":{"issn":["1754-5692"],"eissn":["1754-5706"]},"page":"1683-1695","user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","fulldoi":"https://doi.org/10.1039/d4ee03750b","scopus_import":"1","isi":1,"publication":"Energy and Environmental Science","article_processing_charge":"No","article_type":"original","issue":"4","publication_status":"published","department":[{"_id":"MaIb"}],"month":"02","day":"21"},{"language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"publisher":"Elsevier","date_updated":"2025-12-30T07:19:04Z","oa_version":"None","date_created":"2025-01-26T23:01:49Z","doi":"10.1016/j.jmst.2024.11.039","date_published":"2025-08-01T00:00:00Z","external_id":{"isi":["001407204300001"]},"title":"Advancements of thermoelectric nanomaterials in ROS-mediated broad-spectrum antibacterial therapies for wound healing","intvolume":"       225","citation":{"ista":"Jia S, Qi C, Xu S, Yang L, Sun Q. 2025. Advancements of thermoelectric nanomaterials in ROS-mediated broad-spectrum antibacterial therapies for wound healing. Journal of Materials Science and Technology. 225(08), 212–226.","short":"S. Jia, C. Qi, S. Xu, L. Yang, Q. Sun, Journal of Materials Science and Technology 225 (2025) 212–226.","chicago":"Jia, Shiyu, Cai Qi, Shengduo Xu, Lei Yang, and Qiang Sun. “Advancements of Thermoelectric Nanomaterials in ROS-Mediated Broad-Spectrum Antibacterial Therapies for Wound Healing.” <i>Journal of Materials Science and Technology</i>. Elsevier, 2025. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmst.2024.11.039\">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmst.2024.11.039</a>.","mla":"Jia, Shiyu, et al. “Advancements of Thermoelectric Nanomaterials in ROS-Mediated Broad-Spectrum Antibacterial Therapies for Wound Healing.” <i>Journal of Materials Science and Technology</i>, vol. 225, no. 08, Elsevier, 2025, pp. 212–26, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmst.2024.11.039\">10.1016/j.jmst.2024.11.039</a>.","ieee":"S. Jia, C. Qi, S. Xu, L. Yang, and Q. Sun, “Advancements of thermoelectric nanomaterials in ROS-mediated broad-spectrum antibacterial therapies for wound healing,” <i>Journal of Materials Science and Technology</i>, vol. 225, no. 08. Elsevier, pp. 212–226, 2025.","ama":"Jia S, Qi C, Xu S, Yang L, Sun Q. Advancements of thermoelectric nanomaterials in ROS-mediated broad-spectrum antibacterial therapies for wound healing. <i>Journal of Materials Science and Technology</i>. 2025;225(08):212-226. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmst.2024.11.039\">10.1016/j.jmst.2024.11.039</a>","apa":"Jia, S., Qi, C., Xu, S., Yang, L., &#38; Sun, Q. (2025). Advancements of thermoelectric nanomaterials in ROS-mediated broad-spectrum antibacterial therapies for wound healing. <i>Journal of Materials Science and Technology</i>. Elsevier. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmst.2024.11.039\">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmst.2024.11.039</a>"},"status":"public","quality_controlled":"1","OA_type":"closed access","year":"2025","acknowledgement":"This work was financially supported by the Sichuan Science and Technology Program (Nos. 2023ZYD0064 and 2023YFG0220), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. YJ202242), and the Research Funding from West China School/Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University (No. QDJF2022–2).","_id":"18878","author":[{"last_name":"Jia","first_name":"Shiyu","full_name":"Jia, Shiyu"},{"last_name":"Qi","first_name":"Cai","full_name":"Qi, Cai"},{"full_name":"Xu, Shengduo","id":"12ab8624-4c8a-11ec-9e11-e1ac2438f22f","first_name":"Shengduo","last_name":"Xu"},{"full_name":"Yang, Lei","first_name":"Lei","last_name":"Yang"},{"full_name":"Sun, Qiang","first_name":"Qiang","last_name":"Sun"}],"abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"Thermoelectric (TE) materials, with the ability to convert heat into electrical energy, can generate micro-electrical fields at electronic interfaces with biological systems, making them applicable in electric-catalyzing as nanozymes, and modulate the infected microenvironment of skin wounds. Thereby, by harnessing temperature differences in vitro or in vivo, TE nanomaterials can provide antimicrobial reactive oxygen species (ROS) by catalyzing redox reactions, thereby accelerating wound healing by suppressing infection. However, despite their promising potential, there is still a lack of comprehensive understanding of the antimicrobial mechanisms, biocompatibility, and practical applications of TE nanomaterials in wound healing, as this is a newly-emerged sub-area of energy-related biomedical applications. This review aims to address this gap by highlighting the emerging progress of TE materials in wound healing, clarifying their mechanism and advances, emphasizing their potential challenges for commercialization and clinical use, and proposing novel design strategies of TE nanomaterials for effective antibacterial performance."}],"type":"journal_article","page":"212-226","publication_identifier":{"issn":["1005-0302"]},"volume":225,"user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","article_processing_charge":"No","isi":1,"publication":"Journal of Materials Science and Technology","scopus_import":"1","fulldoi":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmst.2024.11.039","article_type":"review","department":[{"_id":"MaIb"}],"publication_status":"published","issue":"08","day":"01","month":"08"},{"article_number":"e202400743","article_type":"original","oa":1,"file":[{"date_created":"2025-04-16T06:47:09Z","file_size":1251786,"date_updated":"2025-04-16T06:47:09Z","access_level":"open_access","content_type":"application/pdf","checksum":"a9ebdb25c43dc2823cc8a1ba9154d914","creator":"dernst","success":1,"file_id":"19568","relation":"main_file","file_name":"2025_Batteries_Jiyane.pdf"}],"file_date_updated":"2025-04-16T06:47:09Z","isi":1,"publication":"Batteries & Supercaps","article_processing_charge":"Yes (via OA deal)","scopus_import":"1","fulldoi":"https://doi.org/10.1002/batt.202400743","has_accepted_license":"1","month":"03","day":"01","issue":"3","publication_status":"published","department":[{"_id":"MaIb"}],"abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"The determination of the intrinsic properties of solid active material candidates is essential for their performance optimization. However, macroscopic electrodes and related analytical techniques show challenges concerning the number of additional influencing parameters. We explore recessed microelectrodes (rME) as a platform that allows for a binder-free investigation of Prussian Blue analogues (PBA), a family of promising battery materials. The enhanced diffusion using microelectrochemical tools is indispensable to assess the intrinsic material performance, overcoming the limitation of cation diffusion from the electrolyte to the solid interface during (dis)charging cycles and allowing the investigation of limiting steps in the coupled ion-electron transfer process. The intrinsic electrochemical performance of PBAs was studied in a three-electrode configuration by means of cyclic voltammetry and galvanostatic (dis)charging in aqueous Na+-containing electrolyte. We extended the evaluation to the role of the electrolyte on the performance of cathodic and anodic processes of a Mn-based PBA. Ex-situ and operando chemical characterization were coupled to support the microelectrochemical results."}],"type":"journal_article","author":[{"first_name":"Nomnotho","last_name":"Jiyane","full_name":"Jiyane, Nomnotho"},{"first_name":"Carla","last_name":"Santana Santos","full_name":"Santana Santos, Carla"},{"last_name":"Echevarria Poza","first_name":"Igor","id":"fbae1d3b-8142-11ed-8927-a8cf34feb495","full_name":"Echevarria Poza, Igor"},{"last_name":"Palacios Corella","first_name":"Mario","id":"452e82c6-803f-11ed-ab7e-ca0439e73a5d","full_name":"Palacios Corella, Mario"},{"full_name":"Abdillah Mahbub, Muhammad Adib","last_name":"Abdillah Mahbub","first_name":"Muhammad Adib"},{"full_name":"Marin-Tajadura, Gimena","first_name":"Gimena","last_name":"Marin-Tajadura"},{"full_name":"Quast, Thomas","first_name":"Thomas","last_name":"Quast"},{"last_name":"Ibáñez","first_name":"Maria","orcid":"0000-0001-5013-2843","id":"43C61214-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","full_name":"Ibáñez, Maria"},{"full_name":"Ventosa, Edgar","first_name":"Edgar","last_name":"Ventosa"},{"first_name":"Wolfgang","last_name":"Schuhmann","full_name":"Schuhmann, Wolfgang"}],"_id":"18881","acknowledgement":"The authors acknowledge funding from the European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation programme – European Innovation Council (EIC) under the grant agreement 101046742 (MeBattery), the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (CasCat [833408]), and the Spanish Government (Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Grants PID2021-124974OB-C22). The authors thank Martin Trautmann (RUB) and Prof. Dr. Daniel Grasseschi (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ) for support concerning ICP-MS and Raman measurements, respectively. Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL.","user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","volume":8,"publication_identifier":{"eissn":["2566-6223"]},"citation":{"ista":"Jiyane N, Santana Santos C, Echevarria Poza I, Palacios Corella M, Abdillah Mahbub MA, Marin-Tajadura G, Quast T, Ibáñez M, Ventosa E, Schuhmann W. 2025. Recessed microelectrodes as a platform to investigate the intrinsic redox process of Prussian blue analogs for energy storage application. 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Wiley, 2025.","chicago":"Jiyane, Nomnotho, Carla Santana Santos, Igor Echevarria Poza, Mario Palacios Corella, Muhammad Adib Abdillah Mahbub, Gimena Marin-Tajadura, Thomas Quast, Maria Ibáñez, Edgar Ventosa, and Wolfgang Schuhmann. “Recessed Microelectrodes as a Platform to Investigate the Intrinsic Redox Process of Prussian Blue Analogs for Energy Storage Application.” <i>Batteries &#38; Supercaps</i>. Wiley, 2025. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1002/batt.202400743\">https://doi.org/10.1002/batt.202400743</a>.","short":"N. Jiyane, C. Santana Santos, I. Echevarria Poza, M. Palacios Corella, M.A. Abdillah Mahbub, G. Marin-Tajadura, T. Quast, M. Ibáñez, E. Ventosa, W. Schuhmann, Batteries &#38; Supercaps 8 (2025).","apa":"Jiyane, N., Santana Santos, C., Echevarria Poza, I., Palacios Corella, M., Abdillah Mahbub, M. A., Marin-Tajadura, G., … Schuhmann, W. (2025). Recessed microelectrodes as a platform to investigate the intrinsic redox process of Prussian blue analogs for energy storage application. <i>Batteries &#38; Supercaps</i>. Wiley. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1002/batt.202400743\">https://doi.org/10.1002/batt.202400743</a>","ama":"Jiyane N, Santana Santos C, Echevarria Poza I, et al. Recessed microelectrodes as a platform to investigate the intrinsic redox process of Prussian blue analogs for energy storage application. <i>Batteries &#38; Supercaps</i>. 2025;8(3). doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1002/batt.202400743\">10.1002/batt.202400743</a>"},"intvolume":"         8","year":"2025","OA_place":"publisher","OA_type":"hybrid","status":"public","quality_controlled":"1","publisher":"Wiley","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"tmp":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)","image":"/images/cc_by_nc.png","legal_code_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode","short":"CC BY-NC (4.0)"},"date_published":"2025-03-01T00:00:00Z","doi":"10.1002/batt.202400743","title":"Recessed microelectrodes as a platform to investigate the intrinsic redox process of Prussian blue analogs for energy storage application","external_id":{"isi":["001402369200001"]},"ddc":["540"],"date_updated":"2026-02-16T12:15:59Z","date_created":"2025-01-26T23:01:50Z","oa_version":"Published Version"},{"quality_controlled":"1","status":"public","year":"2025","OA_type":"closed access","intvolume":"        35","citation":{"ieee":"X. Zhao <i>et al.</i>, “Low-dimensional structure modulation in Ag8SnSe6 for enhanced thermoelectric performance,” <i>Advanced Functional Materials</i>, vol. 35, no. 24. Wiley, 2025.","mla":"Zhao, Xueke, et al. “Low-Dimensional Structure Modulation in Ag8SnSe6 for Enhanced Thermoelectric Performance.” <i>Advanced Functional Materials</i>, vol. 35, no. 24, 2421449, Wiley, 2025, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202421449\">10.1002/adfm.202421449</a>.","short":"X. Zhao, M. Li, M. Jia, C. Fiedler, B. Nan, D. Yang, L. Li, Z. Yuan, H. Song, Y. Liu, M. Ibáñez, Z. Wang, C. Shan, A. Cabot, Advanced Functional Materials 35 (2025).","chicago":"Zhao, Xueke, Mengyao Li, Mochen Jia, Christine Fiedler, Bingfei Nan, Dongwen Yang, Lei Li, et al. “Low-Dimensional Structure Modulation in Ag8SnSe6 for Enhanced Thermoelectric Performance.” <i>Advanced Functional Materials</i>. 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Advanced Functional Materials. 35(24), 2421449."},"date_updated":"2025-12-30T07:17:39Z","oa_version":"None","date_created":"2025-01-26T23:01:50Z","date_published":"2025-06-19T00:00:00Z","doi":"10.1002/adfm.202421449","external_id":{"isi":["001398067000001"]},"title":"Low-dimensional structure modulation in Ag8SnSe6 for enhanced thermoelectric performance","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"publisher":"Wiley","issue":"24","department":[{"_id":"MaIb"},{"_id":"GradSch"}],"publication_status":"published","day":"19","month":"06","isi":1,"publication":"Advanced Functional Materials","article_processing_charge":"No","scopus_import":"1","fulldoi":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202421449","article_number":"2421449","article_type":"original","volume":35,"publication_identifier":{"eissn":["1616-3028"],"issn":["1616-301X"]},"user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","_id":"18882","author":[{"first_name":"Xueke","last_name":"Zhao","full_name":"Zhao, Xueke"},{"first_name":"Mengyao","last_name":"Li","full_name":"Li, Mengyao"},{"first_name":"Mochen","last_name":"Jia","full_name":"Jia, Mochen"},{"full_name":"Fiedler, Christine","id":"bd3fceba-dc74-11ea-a0a7-c17f71817366","last_name":"Fiedler","first_name":"Christine"},{"last_name":"Nan","first_name":"Bingfei","full_name":"Nan, Bingfei"},{"first_name":"Dongwen","last_name":"Yang","full_name":"Yang, Dongwen"},{"full_name":"Li, Lei","last_name":"Li","first_name":"Lei"},{"last_name":"Yuan","first_name":"Zicheng","full_name":"Yuan, Zicheng"},{"full_name":"Song, Hongzhang","first_name":"Hongzhang","last_name":"Song"},{"full_name":"Liu, Yu","id":"2A70014E-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","orcid":"0000-0001-7313-6740","last_name":"Liu","first_name":"Yu"},{"full_name":"Ibáñez, Maria","id":"43C61214-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","orcid":"0000-0001-5013-2843","last_name":"Ibáñez","first_name":"Maria"},{"full_name":"Wang, Ziyu","last_name":"Wang","first_name":"Ziyu"},{"full_name":"Shan, Chongxin","last_name":"Shan","first_name":"Chongxin"},{"last_name":"Cabot","first_name":"Andreu","full_name":"Cabot, Andreu"}],"acknowledgement":"X.Z. and M.L. contributed equally to this work. This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2024YFE0105200). Also supported by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation under Grant Number 2023M743151. M.J. acknowledges funding from the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2023M743221). A.C. thanks the support from the projects ENE2016-77798-C4-3-R and NANOGEN (PID2020-116093RB-C43), funded by MCIN/ AEI/10.13039/501100011033/ and by “ERDF A way of making Europe”, by the “European Union”.","abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"Ternary liquid-like thermoelectric materials have garnered significant attention due to their ultra-low lattice thermal conductivity. Among these, Ag8SnSe6 stands out for its exceptionally low sound velocity and thermal conductivity. However, the inherent poor electrical conductivity and suboptimal thermoelectric properties of Ag8SnSe6 necessitate further improvement. Here, a novel approach is initiated to enhance the thermoelectric properties of Ag8SnSe6 by combining low-dimensionalization with intrinsic doping. For the first time, this work successfully synthesizes single-phase Ag8SnSe6 nanocrystals, ≈10 nm in size, with the correct phase and composition using a robust and reliable colloidal method. This approach represents a significant improvement over previous reports on this material. Reducing the crystal domains of Ag8SnSe6 to the nanoscale induces quantum confinement effects, increasing the density of states near the Fermi surface. It also introduces additional grain boundaries, which lower the lattice thermal conductivity and simplify structural design. Moreover, incorporating small amounts of Sn nanopowder into the Ag8SnSe6 nanocrystals before consolidation further enhances the thermoelectric performance. Sn acts as a donor dopant, increasing the electronic concentration while at the same time improving their mobility by reducing interface barriers, thus significantly improving the material transport properties. Additionally, the presence of Sn leads to the formation of point defects, dislocations, and secondary phases, which increase phonon scattering and further reduce the thermal conductivity. Through this synergistic optimization, the figure of merit  shows a significant increase across a wide temperature range. Overall, a strategy is presented for the controlled preparation of Ag8SnSe6 nanocrystals, the decoupling of their electrical and thermal transport, and the practical application of this material to thermoelectric single-leg modules."}],"type":"journal_article"}]