Publications de Corsin Battaglia

(Bi)carbonate Precipitation and Gas Diffusion Electrode Stability Coexist during Pulsed Electrochemical CO2 Reduction

Pulsed electrolysis is an effective strategy to stabilize the high selectivity of Cu gas diffusion electrodes toward C >= 2 products, the decrease of which over time under continuous operation is often ascribed to (bi)carbonate precipitation. Here, we demo ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2025

BattINFO Converter: An Automated Tool for Semantic Annotation of Battery Cell Metadata

Corsin Battaglia, Nukorn Plainpan

Driven by the global demand for batteries with improved performance, cost efficiency, and sustainability, battery research has expanded rapidly during recent years, generating a surge in data which offers the potential to accelerate the discovery of new ba ...

Wiley2025

Enhanced Solid Electrolyte Interphase Layer in Li-Ion Batteries with Fluoroethylene Carbonate Additives Evidenced by Liquid-Phase Transmission Electron Microscopy

Corsin Battaglia

The solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) layer is essential for battery performance and safety due to its electron insulation and Li-ion conduction. However, issues such as ongoing electrolyte decomposition and Li dendrite growth often arise. The most common ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2025

A Strategy to Prevent Fluorine‐Induced Transition Metal Dissolution in Lithium‐Ion Batteries

Corsin Battaglia

Increasing the upper cut‐off potential of NMC811 electrodes beyond 4.3 V versus Li/Li+ offers the potential to increase the specific energy of lithium‐ion battery cells by 20%. However, high‐voltage operation typically leads to accelerated aging resulting ...

Wiley2025

Trade-off between lithium diffusivity and transference in solid ternary polymer ionic liquid electrolytes

Corsin Battaglia

For battery architectures that need a solid ion conductor with good contacting performance and high stability against electrochemical oxidation, polymerized ionic liquids (PIL) pose a valuable class of materials. The low conductivity of the binary PIL/ lit ...

2025

Unveiling Solid-State Electrochemical Oxidation of LiBH4 and Li2B12H12 for High-Voltage All-Solid-State Batteries

Corsin Battaglia

Hydridoborates are an emerging class of solid electrolytes that offer high ionic conductivity, low density, solution processability, compatibility with metallic anodes, and high oxidative stability. Notably, certain Li + or Na + solid electrolytes, consist ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2025

Toward an Autonomous Robotic Battery Materials Research Platform Powered by Automated Workflow and Ontologized Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable Data Management

Corsin Battaglia

The discovery of novel battery materials has been accelerated by advanced modeling and machine learning. However, their integration into battery cells remains constrained by the necessity for experimental validation. The status of development and validatio ...

Wiley2025

Enhancing Specific Energy and Cycling Stability of High-temperature Na-zncl2 Batteries with Foam-based Electrodes

Corsin Battaglia

Sodium-zinc chloride (Na-ZnCl2) batteries offer a sustainable alternative to sodium-nickel chloride (Na-NiCl2) batteries but face challenges with low specific energy and cycle life. This study evaluates two electrode designs: conventional particle-based Zn ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2025

Semantic Resources for Managing Knowledge in Battery Research

Corsin Battaglia

Semantic technology is revolutionizing how the battery research community collaborates. It is becoming even more important as artificial intelligence agents emerge in the field. This article explores the role of semantic resources in advancing battery rese ...

2025

Niobium oxide anode materials with suppressed activity toward hydrogen evolution reaction for aqueous batteries

Corsin Battaglia

The hydrogen evolution reaction is the most prominent parasitic reaction for aqueous battery chemistries. Although water-in-salt electrolytes show greatly enhanced electrochemical stability, increasing the voltage of aqueous batteries further by lowering t ...

ELSEVIER2024

Overcoming the probing-depth dilemma in spectroscopic analyses of batteries with muon-induced X-ray emission (MIXE)

Corsin Battaglia

Battery research often encounters the challenge of determining chemical information, such as composition and elemental oxidation states, of a layer buried within a cell stack in a non-destructive manner. Spectroscopic techniques based on X-ray emission or ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2024

Scaling of Planar Sodium-Nickel Chloride Battery Cells to 90 cm2 Active Area

Corsin Battaglia

High-temperature sodium-nickel chloride (Na-NiCl2) batteries offer a competitive solution for stationary energy storage due to their long-term stability, high energy efficiency, and sustainable raw materials. However, scaling up this technology faces chall ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2024

Operando Observation of (Bi)carbonate Precipitation during Electrochemical CO2 Reduction in Strongly Acidic Electrolytes

Corsin Battaglia, Alessandro Senocrate, Nukorn Plainpan

Precipitation of (bi)carbonate salts during the electrochemical CO2 reduction (CO2RR) has been identified as a major cause of degradation and one of the main challenges to be overcome before implementing this technology on the industrial scale. Recently, t ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

Parallel experiments in electrochemical CO2 reduction enabled by standardized analytics

Corsin Battaglia

Electrochemical CO2 reduction (eCO(2)R) is a promising strategy to transform detrimental CO2 emissions into sustainable fuels and chemicals. Key requirements for advancing this field are the development of analytical systems and of methods that are able to ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2024

Building Solid-State Batteries: Insights from Swiss Research Labs

Corsin Battaglia

This review article delves into the growing field of solid-state batteries as a compelling alternative to conventional lithium-ion batteries. The article surveys ongoing research efforts at renowned Swiss institutions a fundamental understanding of battery ...

SWISS CHEMICAL SOC2024

A bridge between trust and control: computational workflows meet automated battery cycling

Sebastiaan Philippe Huber, Corsin Battaglia, Nicola Marzari, Giovanni Pizzi, Loris Ercole, Francisco Fernando Ramirez

Compliance with good research data management practices means trust in the integrity of the data, and it is achievable by full control of the data gathering process. In this work, we demonstrate tooling which bridges these two aspects, and illustrate its u ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2024

A Quasi-Solid-State Polymer Lithium-Metal Battery with Minimal Excess Lithium, Ultrathin Separator, and High-Mass Loading NMC811 Cathode

Corsin Battaglia

Solid-state batteries with lithium metal anodes are considered the next major technology leap with respect to today's lithium-ion batteries, as they promise a significant increase in energy density. Expectations for solid-state batteries from the automotiv ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2024

Operando Electrochemical Liquid Cell Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy Investigation of the Growth and Evolution of the Mosaic Solid Electrolyte Interphase for Lithium-Ion Batteries

Corsin Battaglia, Rolf Erni

The solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) is a key component of a lithium-ion battery forming during the first few dischage/charge cycles at the interface between the anode and the electrolyte. The SEI passivates the anode-electrolyte interface by inhibiting ...

Amer Chemical Soc2023

A Nearly Zero-Strain Li-Rich Rock-Salt Oxide with Multielectron Redox Reactions as a Cathode for Li-Ion Batteries

Xiao Liu, Corsin Battaglia, Yong Yang, Chunyang Zhang, Yining Li

Li-rich oxide cathodes are drawing increasing attention as next-generation cathode materials for the development of high-energy-density Li-ion batteries due to their strikingly high capacities. However, transition-metal migration, irreversible structural p ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Elucidating the Rate-Limiting Processes in High-Temperature Sodium-Metal Chloride Batteries

Patrik Schmutz, Corsin Battaglia, Daniel Alexander Landmann

Sodium-metal chloride batteries are considered a sustainable and safe alternative to lithium-ion batteries for large-scale stationary electricity storage, but exhibit disadvantages in rate capability. Several studies identify metal-ion migration through th ...

WILEY2022