Roman Nölle

TL;DR: Pre-lithiation is considered as a highly appealing technique to compensate for active lithium losses and to increase the practical energy density as mentioned in this paper, however, most of these materials suffer from high 1st cycle active lithium loss, e.g., caused by solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) formation, which hinders their broad commercial use.

TL;DR: This review article highlights the advantages but also the limitations of different cell setups, with special focus on two- and three-electrode configurations with or without the help of “auxiliary” excess capacity Li metal electrodes.

TL;DR: It is shown that the silicon thin film electrodes with an amorphous C layer showed a remarkably improved electrochemical performance in terms of capacity retention and Coulombic efficiency.

TL;DR: The coated electrodes show an excellent capacity retention for the long-term charge/discharge cycling of NCM-811-based LIB full cells, i.e., 80% state-of-health after more than 800 cycles, and the positive influence of the tungsten oxide coating on the thermal and structural stability is demonstrated using postmortem analysis of aged electrodes.