Batteries: Modeling tomorrow's materials today

Microstructure simulations reveal strong influence of elastic deformations on charging behavior of layered oxides as cathode in sodium-ion batteries

02-May-2024 - What factors determine how quickly a battery can be charged? Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) are investigating this and other questions using computer-aided simulations. Microstructure models are helping to discover and investigate new electrode materials. For ...

Cloud Formation: How Feldspar Acts as Ice Nucleus

12-Dec-2016 - In the atmosphere, feldspar particles act as ice nuclei that make ice crystals grow in clouds and enable precipitation. The reason was found by researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and University College London (UCL) with the help of electron microscopy observations and ...

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KIT researchers develop new method to produce metal-organic frameworks

06-Dec-2012 - Researchers of the KIT Institute of Functional Interfaces (IFG), Jacobs University Bremen, and other institutions have developed a new method to produce metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). By means of the so-called liquid-phase epitaxy, the scientists succeeded in producing a new class of MOFs with ...