Electrodes: The Configurational Space of Rocksalt‐Type Oxides for High‐Capacity Lithium Battery Electrodes (Adv. Energy Mater. 13/2014)

In article number 1400478, Gerbrand Ceder and co-workers demonstrate that the practical specific capacity of battery electrodes depends on ionic percolation properties. The central part of the image depicts the reversible capacity of lithium-transition-metal oxides with spinel-like structure as a function of the total lithium content and the structural disorder. Typical local atomic arrangements and lithium diffusion channels are shown in the satellite images. The background is a percolating network of fast lithium diffusion channels.