Xingfeng He

TL;DR: Experimental and computational results reveal that the oxide coating enables wetting of metallic lithium in contact with the garnet electrolyte surface and the lithiated-alumina interface allows effective lithium ion transport between the lithium metal anode and garnets electrolyte.

TL;DR: The results suggest that the outstanding stability of the solid electrolyte materials is not thermodynamically intrinsic but is originated from kinetic stabilizations, and general principles for developing solid electrolytes materials with enhanced stability and for engineering interfaces in all-solid-state Li-ion batteries are provided.

TL;DR: In this article, the intrinsic electrochemical stability window of solid electrolytes is calculated using first-principle computation methods, and an experimental method is developed to measure the intrinsic stability window using a Li/electrolyte/electronically-conducted carbon cell.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors performed first principles calculations to evaluate the thermodynamics of the interfaces between solid electrolyte and electrode materials and to identify the chemical and electrochemical stabilities of these interfaces.

TL;DR: Using ab initio modelling, it is shown that fast diffusion in super-ionic conductors does not occur through isolated ion hopping as is typical in solids, but instead proceeds through concerted migrations of multiple ions with low energy barriers.