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Historically, defects in semiconductors and ionic conductors have been studied using very different approaches. In the solid-state ionics community, nonstoichiometry and defect thermochemistry are often probed directly through experiments. The dependency of defect concentrations on chemical conditions (typically oxygen pressure) are modeled using a physical chemistry framework and compactly represented

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Machine learning has become a common and powerful tool in materials research. As more data become available, with the use of high-performance computing and high-throughput experimentation, machine learning has proven potential to accelerate scientific research and technology development. Though the uptake of data-driven approaches for materials science is at an exciting, early stage, to realize the

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The commercialization of lithium ion batteries (LIBs) triggered a new era of portable electronics and electric vehicles, which changed our daily life remarkably. Meanwhile, LIBs are promising as large-scale storage batteries in green electric grids by using renewable energy as the primary energy source. Driven by the concerns of lithium depletion and the turbulent price of Li, Ni, and Co mineral resources

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Figure 1. Schematics of the charging process of Li–garnet solid-state batteries based on porous LLZO membranes. Figure 2. Calculated gravimetric (a, b, d, e) and volumetric (c, f) energy densities of Li–garnet SSBs based on porous (a, b, c) and dense/porous (d, e, f) LLZO membranes vs the thickness and porosity of the porous LLZO layer. The batteries are composed of NMC (70 vol %)/SSE (30 vol %) cathodes

The author affiliation of the author Ying Zhu should be changed to “State Key Laboratory of High-Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China”. Miss Zhu received her M.S. in Materials Engineering from Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 2020. Then she became a joint Ph.D. student of

In the TOC and Conspectus graphics, “Perovskite Solar Cell” should be replaced by “Perovskite Solar Cells” and “Lonic liquid” should be replaced by “Ionic Liquid”. The corrected image is provided here. This article has not yet been cited by other publications.