Tunnel-Framework Interphase Driving Rapid Zn2 Diffusion for Long-Life Zn Metal Anodes
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What heat actually does to a lithium battery in plain English.
Your phone battery is a lithium-ion cell.
Inside that cell, lithium ions move between two electrodes through a liquid electrolyte every time the battery charges or discharges.
That process is remarkably clean and efficient at normal temperatures.
At elevated temperatures (above 95°F internally), three things happen:
One: Electrolyte breakdown.The liquid inside the battery slowly degrades. It becomes less efficient at moving ions. The battery's internal resistance increases. It holds less charge over time.
Two: Lithium plating.Excess lithium ions forced into the anode during Phase 2 charging at high temperatures form metallic deposits on the electrode. These deposits are permanent and irreversible. They reduce battery capacity permanently.
Three: SEI layer growth.A protective layer inside the battery called the Solid Electrolyte Interphase grows thicker at high temperatures consuming lithium ions that can never be recovered. Every night at 100% accelerates this process.
None of this is visible. None of it triggers a warning. It accumulates invisibly, every night, until one day the phone doesn't make it through the afternoon.
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High capacity anode chemistries look brilliant on paper until you look at the solid electrolyte interphase. If your material constantly consumes active lithium to reform that interface layer during cycling, your Coulombic efficiency drops and the cell dies early.
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A Multifunctional Electrolyte Additive K3P7 for Simultaneous Capacity Compensation and Interphase Regulation in Lithium-Ion Batteries
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Spent lithium EV batteries get 95% power back with new chemical bath | Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering
Cornell team uses Direct Electrode-to-Electrode Regeneration (DEER) to recycle critical minerals in batteries.
The life cycle of an electric vehicle battery has been a violent, one-way street. When a battery dies, the industry routinely tears it apart to access the parts that matter. High-tech recyclers either blast the dead cells in extreme-heat furnaces or grind them into a powdery substance known as “black mass” before drenching them in harsh, corrosive acids.
It is an expensive, carbon-intensive, and messy way to extract scarce minerals like nickel and cobalt. But what if you didn’t have to destroy a dead battery just to rebuild it?
Researchers at Cornell University have developed a way to overcome the destruction altogether. Rather than smashing the battery, the method turns to chemical washing.
In this, intact components were immersed in a specialized electrochemical bath to restore 95 percent of the dead batteries. Plus, this method could cut recycling manufacturing costs by 56 percent.
“We repair them, as is, without shredding or powdering them, and then put them back into a new battery,” said Vibha Kalra, the Fred H. Rhodes Professor of Chemical Engineering in the Cornell Duffield College of Engineering.
“The dissolution is basically what helps the battery recover its capacity. It shows 95 percent recovery. So we are shortening the circularity loop immensely,” added Kalra.
Cost-saving battery fix
To understand how it works, look at what actually happens when a battery dies.
Batteries don’t usually run out of minerals. But, as electricity flows back and forth between the positive and negative sides, a thick, crusty layer of gunk gradually builds up inside the cell.
Engineers call this the solid electrolyte interphase. The materials are all still there, but the energy can no longer flow. Standard recycling destroys the whole part just to clean it.
Cornell’s method, called Direct Electrode-to-Electrode Regeneration (DEER), is far gentler.
Workers open the casing and pull out the battery’s core parts — the electrodes — while these are still completely intact. Then the parts are submerged into a chemical solution called 1,3-dimethyl-2-imidazolidinone. The liquid targets the gunk. It dissolves the insulating buildup, leaving the delicate internal structures perfectly preserved.
The process cuts down air pollution and slashes industrial water consumption.
The growing demand
At this moment, the world is grappling with disruptions to global supply chains for essential battery ingredients. The United States currently possesses very few domestic reserves of the critical minerals required to build modern batteries.
US depends mostly on complex, foreign supply chains to import materials. It also lacks the massive infrastructure needed to refine raw materials or rebuild crushed battery powder from scratch; domestic recycling has lagged.
“When these lithium-ion batteries came about, nobody was thinking about how these minerals are limited on the Earth’s crust, and you cannot make them forever,” Kalra said. “In recent years, people are realizing you can’t just keep making batteries, because you don’t have enough material.”
By keeping the battery components intact, the DEER method eliminates the need for expensive, overseas refabrication. It allows the entire recycling process to happen locally, cheaply, and quickly.
The research team’s next step is to test the DEER method on larger, industrial-scale batteries and adapt the process to combat other forms of wear, such as permanent lithium loss.
Currently, the technique successfully treats batteries at a 70-80 percent state of health — the typical retirement threshold for electric vehicles. But researchers believe they can widen this recovery window by targeting these additional degradation mechanisms.
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Synergistic anion-dipole interaction enhances high-voltage stability across bulk electrolyte and electrode interphase
From Beijing Institute of Technology
10.1016/j.jechem.2026.02.010
Year 2025: Publications 900. Accept rate<18%. IF=14.9
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Barbie retweeted
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Thank you to everyone who joined last night for the opening of INTERPHASE 🙏
The new media show by @kkomputery continues today and tomorrow, featuring collectible live glitch panels, handheld portrait devices, and a large-scale LED installation
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@Apple why do all your products suck so bad.
User interphase is shit.
Computer can’t do basic computer shit.
You failed.
Crash and burn man.
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lol no that’s way too high for someone Richard’s size.
@PGC1a_RB talked with a buddy and he said may be a biofilm issue. Zinc magnesium & iron may be feeding the bacteria hence still low despite supplementation. Recco was stop supps, interphase to remove biofilms maybe have body handle bacteria itself or taking a round of Biocidin to remove biofilm and bacteria along side charcoal to remove the excess endotoxin burden from die off.
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The Interphase website is now live, with CHIP devices and accompanying personalized portrait works available to collect online. Visit the link to learn more and collect: interphase.ksawerykomputery.…
video footage @massimov_nyc
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Modeling and Estimation of Solid Electrolyte Interphase during Formation in Battery Manufacturing
Zhiwen Wan, Hamidreza Movahedi, Wenxue Liu, Jingchen Ma, Jason B. Siegel, …
arxiv.org/abs/2606.12664 [𝚎𝚎𝚜𝚜.𝚂𝚈]
💬Accepted by the 2026 American Control Conference (ACC)
ALT The solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) - a critical passivation layer that governs the longevity, safety, and efficiency of lithium-ion batteries - is created during the last step in cell manufacturing called cell formation. Conventional cell formation protocols are largely empirical, resulting in long processing times and limited control over the SEI growth rate that influences SEI quality and lifetime performance. This paper develops a control-oriented, semi-empirical model to estimate SEI thickness growth from terminal voltage and cell expansion measurements acquired in-operando during manufacturing using low-cost micrometer-precision integrated-sensing fixture. Model parameters are calibrated against cell formation data, and an unscented Kalman filter is employed to estimate the SEI film growth. The results lay the foundation for future closed-loop control of SEI growth, enabling high-quality and more efficient formation processes.
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At Interphase by Ksawery Komputery @heft_gallery, your portrait becomes the medium, glitching in real time or remixed through movement. The standout was the space itself: cascading light strips, fog, and wall-sized streams of letters and numbers. #newmediaart #techart
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