Publications by Corsin Battaglia

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Designing solid electrolytes for all-solid-state-batteries that can withstand the extreme electrochemical conditions in contact with an alkali metal anode and a high-voltage cathode is challenging, especially when the battery is cycled beyond 4 V. Here we ...

Sodium-zinc chloride (Na-ZnCl2) batteries offer a sustainable alternative to sodium-nickel chloride (Na-NiCl2) batteries but face challenges with low specific energy and cycle life. This study evaluates two electrode designs: conventional particle-based Zn ...

Electrochemical CO2 reduction (eCO(2)R) is a promising strategy to transform detrimental CO2 emissions into sustainable fuels and chemicals. Key requirements for advancing this field are the development of analytical systems and of methods that are able to ...

For battery architectures that need a solid ion conductor with good contacting performance and high stability against electrochemical oxidation, polymerized ionic liquids (PIL) pose a valuable class of materials. The low conductivity of the binary PIL/ lit ...

Sodium-metal chloride batteries are considered a sustainable and safe alternative to lithium-ion batteries for large-scale stationary electricity storage, but exhibit disadvantages in rate capability. Several studies identify metal-ion migration through th ...

Theory predicts that periodic photonic nanostructures should outperform their random counterparts in trapping light in solar cells. However, the current certified world-record conversion efficiency for amorphous silicon thin-film solar cells, which strongl ...

Semantic technology is revolutionizing how the battery research community collaborates. It is becoming even more important as artificial intelligence agents emerge in the field. This article explores the role of semantic resources in advancing battery rese ...

We recently proposed a structural model for the Si!331"-!12!1" surface reconstruction containing silicon pentamers and adatoms as elementary structural building blocks. Using first-principles density functional theory we here investigate the stability of a ...

Battery research often encounters the challenge of determining chemical information, such as composition and elemental oxidation states, of a layer buried within a cell stack in a non-destructive manner. Spectroscopic techniques based on X-ray emission or ...

Salts with asymmetric (fluorosulfonyl)(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide (FTFSI) anions have recently been shown to suppress crystallization of water-in-salt electrolytes, enabling low-temperature operation of high-voltage aqueous rechargeable batteries. To c ...

In Thin Film Silicon (TF-Si) solar cells light harvesting schemes must guarantee an efficient light trapping in the thin absorber layers without decreasing the silicon layers quality and consecutively the p-i-n diodes electrical performance. TF-Si solar ce ...

We explore substoichiometric molybdenum trioxide (MoOx, x < 3) as a dopant-free, hole-selective contact for silicon solar cells. Using an intrinsic hydrogenated amorphous silicon passivation layer between the oxide and the silicon absorber, we demonstrate ...

The discovery of enhanced electrochemical stability for aqueous electrolytes with very high salt concentration has stimulated the development of high-voltage aqueous batteries. We show that a key factor limiting the applicability of these batteries is the ...

High-temperature sodium-nickel chloride (Na-NiCl2) batteries offer a competitive solution for stationary energy storage due to their long-term stability, high energy efficiency, and sustainable raw materials. However, scaling up this technology faces chall ...

An amorphous silicon solar cell on a periodic nanocone back reflector with a high 9.7% initial conversion efficiency is presented. The optimized back-reflector morphology provides powerful light trapping and enables excellent electrical cell performance. U ...

Water-in-salt electrolytes have enabled the development of novel high-voltage aqueous lithium-ion batteries. This study explores the reasons why analogous sodium electrolytes have struggled to reach the same level of electrochemical stability. Solution str ...

Texturing the glass surface is a promising method for improving the light trapping properties of superstrate thin-film silicon solar cells, as it enables thinner absorber layers and, possibly, higher cell efficiencies. In this paper we present the optical ...

The hydrogen evolution reaction is the most prominent parasitic reaction for aqueous battery chemistries. Although water-in-salt electrolytes show greatly enhanced electrochemical stability, increasing the voltage of aqueous batteries further by lowering t ...

Increasing the upper cut‐off potential of NMC811 electrodes beyond 4.3 V versus Li/Li+ offers the potential to increase the specific energy of lithium‐ion battery cells by 20%. However, high‐voltage operation typically leads to accelerated aging resulting ...

Lithium-excess cation-disordered rock-salt oxides (DRXs) are investigated intensively as cathode materials for future lithium-ion batteries combining cationic and anionic redox reactions. However, the lattice oxygen redox can cause severe oxygen release re ...

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4 V room-temperature all-solid-state sodium battery enabled by a passivating cathode/hydroborate solid electrolyte interface

Enhancing Specific Energy and Cycling Stability of High-temperature Na-zncl2 Batteries with Foam-based Electrodes

Parallel experiments in electrochemical CO2 reduction enabled by standardized analytics

Trade-off between lithium diffusivity and transference in solid ternary polymer ionic liquid electrolytes

Elucidating the Rate-Limiting Processes in High-Temperature Sodium-Metal Chloride Batteries

Light trapping in solar cells: can periodic beat random?

Semantic Resources for Managing Knowledge in Battery Research

Structure and stability of the Si(331)-(12x1) surface reconstruction investigated with first-principles density functional theory

Overcoming the probing-depth dilemma in spectroscopic analyses of batteries with muon-induced X-ray emission (MIXE)

Impact of Anion Asymmetry on Local Structure and Supercooling Behavior of Water-in-Salt Electrolytes

Light Harvesting Schemes for High Efficiency Thin Film Silicon Solar Cells

Silicon heterojunction solar cell with passivated hole selective MoOx contact

Suppressing Crystallization of Water-in-Salt Electrolytes by Asymmetric Anions Enables Low-Temperature Operation of High-Voltage Aqueous Batteries

Scaling of Planar Sodium-Nickel Chloride Battery Cells to 90 cm2 Active Area

High-Efficiency Amorphous Silicon Solar Cell on a Periodic Nanocone Back Reflector

Anion Selection Criteria for Water-in-Salt Electrolytes

Analysis of Optical and Morphological Properties of Aluminium Induced Texture Glass Superstrates

Niobium oxide anode materials with suppressed activity toward hydrogen evolution reaction for aqueous batteries

A Strategy to Prevent Fluorine‐Induced Transition Metal Dissolution in Lithium‐Ion Batteries

Tailoring the redox-active transition metal content to enhance cycling stability in cation-disordered rock-salt oxides