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A battery is a device that stores energy in chemical form and can convert it into electric energy through electrochemical reactions.

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    Heterogeneous catalysis is often plagued by incompatibility of a catalyst’s reactivity and stability. Now, covalent organic frameworks linked by reactive, yet stable, N-heterocyclic carbene precursors are synthesized and the frameworks are subsequently used as cathodes in Li–S batteries.

    • Guolong Xing
    •  & Long Chen
    Nature Synthesis 1, 341-343

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    Redox flow batteries offer a readily scalable solution to grid-scale energy storage, but their application is generally limited to ambient temperatures above 0 °C. Now, a polyoxometalate-based chemistry has been developed to enable redox flow batteries to operate, and even thrive, under frigid conditions.

    • Leo J. Small
    •  & Travis M. Anderson
    Nature Energy, 1-2

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    Severe capacity fade in layered sodium oxide cathodes hinders their commercial feasibility in sodium batteries. Now, intrinsic lattice strain is unveiled as a new origin for their short cycle life, in addition to the common belief that phase transition or parasitic reactions are solely responsible.

    • Nicholas S. Grundish
    Nature Energy 7, 306-307

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    Studying the kinetics of high-energy and high-power batteries is a formidable challenge. Now, it has been shown that redox-mediated (RM) catalysis in Li–O2 and Li–S batteries can be controlled by tuning parameters such as Li-ion concentration or electrolyte solvent, revealing threshold potentials in which rate constants increase several-fold.

    • Haoshen Zhou
    Nature Catalysis 5, 173-174
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