InfomatPub Date : 2025-05-08DOI: 10.1002/inf2.70031
Junyoung Seo, Taekyeong Kim, Kisung You, Youngmin Moon, Jina Bang, Waunsoo Kim, Il Jeon, Im Doo Jung
{"title":"High quality large-scale nickel-rich layered oxides precursor co-precipitation via domain adaptation-based machine learning","authors":"Junyoung Seo, Taekyeong Kim, Kisung You, Youngmin Moon, Jina Bang, Waunsoo Kim, Il Jeon, Im Doo Jung","doi":"10.1002/inf2.70031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/inf2.70031","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Nickel-rich layered oxides (LiNi<sub><i>x</i></sub>Co<sub><i>y</i></sub>Mn<sub><i>z</i></sub>O<sub>2</sub>, NCM) are among the most promising cathode materials for high-energy lithium-ion batteries, offering high specific capacity and output voltage at a relatively low cost. However, industrial-scale co-precipitation presents significant challenges, particularly in maintaining particle sphericity, ensuring a stable concentration gradient, and preserving production yield when transitioning from lab-scale compositions. This study addresses a critical issue in the large-scale synthesis of nickel-rich NCM (<i>x</i> = 0.8381): nickel leaching, which compromises particle uniformity and battery performance. To mitigate this, we optimize the reaction process and develop an artificial intelligence-driven defect prediction system that enhances precursor stability. Our domain adaptation based machine learning model, which accounts for equipment wear and environmental variations, achieves a defect detection accuracy of 97.8% based on machine data and process conditions. By implementing this approach, we successfully scale up NCM precursor production to over 2 tons, achieving 83% capacity retention after 500 cycles at a 1C rate. In addition, the proposed approach demonstrates the formation of a concentration gradient in the composition and a high sphericity of 0.951 (±0.0796). This work provides new insights into the stable mass production of NCM precursors, ensuring both high yield and performance reliability.</p><p>\u0000 <figure>\u0000 <div><picture>\u0000 <source></source></picture><p></p>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </figure></p>","PeriodicalId":48538,"journal":{"name":"Infomat","volume":"7 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":22.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/inf2.70031","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144635378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
InfomatPub Date : 2025-04-28DOI: 10.1002/inf2.70025
HeeChan Kang, Ye Ji Park, Seung Yeob Baek, Jinwook Kim, Sejong Ahn, InSik Lim, Gaon Heo, WooChul Jung, Jun Hyuk Kim
{"title":"Recent breakthroughs in cathode of protonic ceramic fuel cells: Materials, functionalization, and future perspectives","authors":"HeeChan Kang, Ye Ji Park, Seung Yeob Baek, Jinwook Kim, Sejong Ahn, InSik Lim, Gaon Heo, WooChul Jung, Jun Hyuk Kim","doi":"10.1002/inf2.70025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/inf2.70025","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Hydrogen stands as a promising energy carrier that plays a pivotal role in addressing global sustainability and achieving carbon neutrality. The conversion of hydrogen energy through fuel cells has emerged as a central technology in this pursuit. Notably, protonic ceramic fuel cells (PCFCs) hold potential for the future hydrogen energy ecosystem, owing to their impressive energy conversion efficiencies at low-to-intermediate temperatures (300–750°C). It is becoming increasingly evident that the development of PCFC technology relies on advancements in the cathode, as oxygen-involved reactions often exhibit sluggish kinetics. In this comprehensive review, we aim to provide an overview of the current state of knowledge concerning the design of advanced cathodes for PCFCs. This includes discussing key descriptors for cathodes, methods for characterizing material properties, and functionalization techniques to enhance electrode performance. Finally, we present insights into future research directions.</p><p>\u0000 <figure>\u0000 <div><picture>\u0000 <source></source></picture><p></p>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </figure></p>","PeriodicalId":48538,"journal":{"name":"Infomat","volume":"7 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":22.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/inf2.70025","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144634982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
InfomatPub Date : 2025-04-13DOI: 10.1002/inf2.70026
Yeonghun Yun, Devthade Vidyasagar, Sunwoo Kim, Sung Woong Yang, Doyun Im, Rajendra Kumar Gunasekaran, Sangheon Lee, Jina Jung, Won Chang Choi, Roy Byung Kyu Chung, Dong Hoe Kim, Ji-Sang Park, Sangwook Lee
{"title":"Inside Front Cover Image","authors":"Yeonghun Yun, Devthade Vidyasagar, Sunwoo Kim, Sung Woong Yang, Doyun Im, Rajendra Kumar Gunasekaran, Sangheon Lee, Jina Jung, Won Chang Choi, Roy Byung Kyu Chung, Dong Hoe Kim, Ji-Sang Park, Sangwook Lee","doi":"10.1002/inf2.70026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/inf2.70026","url":null,"abstract":"<p>All-perovskite tandem solar cell: a cutting-edge technology designed for efficient and sustainable terrestrial and space energy generation.\u0000\u0000 <figure>\u0000 <div><picture>\u0000 <source></source></picture><p></p>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </figure></p>","PeriodicalId":48538,"journal":{"name":"Infomat","volume":"7 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":22.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/inf2.70026","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143826774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
InfomatPub Date : 2025-04-09DOI: 10.1002/inf2.70017
Ziyue Ju, Ruichan Lv, Anees A. Ansari, Jun Lin
{"title":"Recent advances in additive manufacturing for solar cell based on organic/inorganic hybrid materials","authors":"Ziyue Ju, Ruichan Lv, Anees A. Ansari, Jun Lin","doi":"10.1002/inf2.70017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/inf2.70017","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The performance of optoelectronic materials has been booming developed. Yet, the traditional solar cell manufacturing techniques, such as spin coating and screen printing, have significant limitations that seem to hinder the further development of solar cell technology. Compared with traditional manufacturing processes, additive manufacturing (AM) boasts advantages such as flexibility in the printing process, precise control over material deposition, and simpler procedures. These features provide a foundation for further enhancing solar cell performance and expanding their applications. This review outlines the superiority of AM compared with traditional solar cell manufacturing methods and highlights how AM has addressed specific challenges currently faced by solar cells. The most widely researched solar cell structures in recent years were briefly reviewed with summarizing their advantages and disadvantages. Then, a comprehensive overview of different manufacturing processes, including traditional printing methods and AM, is presented. Especially, their workflows, characteristics, and impressive innovative applications in solar cell manufacturing were discussed in detail. Finally, based on the current state of research, the review reflects on the future prospects of applying AM technology in space solar energy production, such as integrated printing with protective outer layers together with the solar cells, customized functional structure printing, flexible large-scale printing, and printing of high-performance novel materials with nanoscale and microscale structures.</p><p>\u0000 <figure>\u0000 <div><picture>\u0000 <source></source></picture><p></p>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </figure></p>","PeriodicalId":48538,"journal":{"name":"Infomat","volume":"7 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":22.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/inf2.70017","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144635379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tailoring Bi to boost CuAgBi2I8 solar cells","authors":"Erchuang Fan, Manying Liu, Yange Zhang, Dandan Zhao, Yan Lei, Chaoliang Zhao, Peng Zhang, Erjun Zhou, Zhi Zheng","doi":"10.1002/inf2.70013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/inf2.70013","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Considering sustainable development factors such as element abundance, cost, environmental friendliness, and stability, the research and development of novel inorganic non-lead perovskites are very significant. Copper-silver-bismuth iodide (CABI) is a promising solar cell material with halide perovskite genes, possessing eco-friendly, element-rich, and cost-effective characteristics. The fabrication of high-quality CABI films with tailored compositions still poses a substantial hurdle. We developed a CuAgBi<sub>2</sub>I<sub>8</sub> material that effectively reduced the bandgap to 1.69 eV by optimizing Bi distribution to create an environment conducive to in-situ redox reactions of Bi with I<sub>2</sub>, Cu, and Ag via vapor-phase synthesis. This strategy proved highly effective in synthesizing high-quality CuAgBi<sub>2</sub>I<sub>8</sub> compound, accompanied by significant improvements in film quality, including enhanced crystallinity, minimized defects, and reduced non-radiative recombination. The crystal structure of CuAgBi<sub>2</sub>I<sub>8</sub> and mechanisms of elemental reactions and diffusion are discussed. Devices featuring the structure FTO/c-TiO<sub>2</sub>/m-TiO<sub>2</sub>/CuAgBi<sub>2</sub>I<sub>8</sub>/CuI/Spiro-OMeTAD/carbon achieved a champion efficiency of 3.21%, the highest for CABI solar cells. This work provides a novel idea and approach to governing the gas–solid element diffusion and reaction for high-quality CABI and related halide perovskite films.</p><p>\u0000 <figure>\u0000 <div><picture>\u0000 <source></source></picture><p></p>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </figure></p>","PeriodicalId":48538,"journal":{"name":"Infomat","volume":"7 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":22.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/inf2.70013","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144308797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
InfomatPub Date : 2025-04-04DOI: 10.1002/inf2.70015
Longchao Huang, Weili Deng, Guo Tian, Yue Sun, Tao Yang, Boling Lan, Xuelan Li, Yang Liu, Tianpei Xu, Shenglong Wang, Yong Ao, Jieling Zhang, Long Jin, Weiqing Yang
{"title":"Low electric field-driven and fast-moving relaxor ferroelectric soft robots","authors":"Longchao Huang, Weili Deng, Guo Tian, Yue Sun, Tao Yang, Boling Lan, Xuelan Li, Yang Liu, Tianpei Xu, Shenglong Wang, Yong Ao, Jieling Zhang, Long Jin, Weiqing Yang","doi":"10.1002/inf2.70015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/inf2.70015","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Bioinspired soft robots hold great potential to perform tasks in unstructured terrains. Ferroelectric polymers are highly valued in soft robots for their flexibility, lightweight, and electrically controllable deformation. However, achieving large strains in ferroelectric polymers typically requires high driving voltages, posing a significant challenge for practical applications. In this study, we investigate the role of crystalline domain size in enhancing the electrostrain performance of the relaxor ferroelectric polymer poly(vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene-chlorofluoroethylene-fluorinated alkynes) (P(VDF-TrFE-CFE-FA)). Leveraging its remarkable inverse piezoelectric coefficient (|<i>d</i><sub>33</sub>*| = 701 pm V<sup>−1</sup>), we demonstrate that the planar films exhibit a five times larger bending angle than that of commercial PVDF films at low electric fields. Based on this material, we design a petal-structured soft robot that achieves a curvature of up to 4.5 cm<sup>−1</sup> at a DC electric field of 30 V μm<sup>−1</sup>. When integrated into a bipedal soft robot, it manifests outstanding electrostrain performance, achieving rapid locomotion of ~19 body lengths per second (BL s<sup>−1</sup>) at 10 V μm<sup>−1</sup> (560 Hz). Moreover, the developed robot demonstrates remarkable abilities in climbing slopes and carrying heavy loads. These findings open new avenues for developing low-voltage-driven soft robots with significant promise for practical applications.</p><p>\u0000 <figure>\u0000 <div><picture>\u0000 <source></source></picture><p></p>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </figure></p>","PeriodicalId":48538,"journal":{"name":"Infomat","volume":"7 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":22.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/inf2.70015","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144308720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
InfomatPub Date : 2025-03-28DOI: 10.1002/inf2.70010
Lei Zhang, Xin Zhou, Tong Yang, Yuan Chen, Fangjie Wang, Haoge Cheng, Dechun Zhou, Goki Eda, Zheng Liu, Andrew T. S. Wee
{"title":"Semiconductor-to-metal transition in platinum dichalcogenides induced by niobium dichalcogenides","authors":"Lei Zhang, Xin Zhou, Tong Yang, Yuan Chen, Fangjie Wang, Haoge Cheng, Dechun Zhou, Goki Eda, Zheng Liu, Andrew T. S. Wee","doi":"10.1002/inf2.70010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/inf2.70010","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Metallizing 2D semiconductors is a crucial research area with significant applications, such as reducing the contact resistance at metal/2D semiconductor interfaces. This is a key challenge in the realization of next-generation low-power and high-performance devices. While various methods exist for metallizing Mo- and W-based 2D semiconductors like MoS<sub>2</sub> and WSe<sub>2</sub>, effective approaches for Pt-based ones have been lacking. This study demonstrates that platinum dichalcogenides (PtX<sub>2</sub>, X = Se or Te) undergo a semiconductor-to-metal transition when grown on niobium dichalcogenides (NbX<sub>2</sub>, X = Se or Te). PtX<sub>2</sub>/NbX<sub>2</sub> heterostructures were fabricated using molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) and characterized by Raman spectra, scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) and scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy (STM/STS). Raman spectra and STEM confirm the growth of 1T-phase PtX<sub>2</sub> and 1H-phase NbX<sub>2</sub>. Both 2D STS mapping and layer-dependent STS show that regardless of their layer numbers, both pristine semiconducting PtSe<sub>2</sub> and PtTe<sub>2</sub> are converted to metallic forms when interfacing with NbSe<sub>2</sub> or NbTe<sub>2</sub>. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations suggest that the metallization of PtSe<sub>2</sub> on NbX<sub>2</sub> and PtTe<sub>2</sub> on NbTe<sub>2</sub> results from interfacial orbital hybridization, while for PtTe<sub>2</sub> on NbSe<sub>2</sub>, it is due to the strong <i>p</i>-doping effect caused by interfacial charge transfer. Our work provides an effective method for metallizing PtX<sub>2</sub> semiconductors, which may lead to significant applications such as reducing the contact resistance at metal electrode/2D semiconductor interfaces and developing devices like rectifiers, rectenna, and photodetectors based on 2D Schottky diodes.</p><p>\u0000 <figure>\u0000 <div><picture>\u0000 <source></source></picture><p></p>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </figure></p>","PeriodicalId":48538,"journal":{"name":"Infomat","volume":"7 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":22.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/inf2.70010","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144309208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}