Water-in-salt electrolytes for aqueous lithium-ion batteries with liquidus temperatures below -10 °C

Maximilian Becker1, Ruben-Simon Kühnel2, Corsin Battaglia2

  • 1Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland. ruben-simon.kuehnel@empa.ch and ETH Zurich, Department of Materials, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland.

Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|September 19, 2019
PubMed

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