Complex Event Analysis - Report

Key Focus

  • Goodenough's high reputation was enough to deter the strongest criticism however, with Daniel Steingart of Princeton University commenting, "If anyone but Goodenough published this, I would be, well, it's hard to find a polite word." A formal comment was published by Steingart and Venkat Viswanathan from Carnegie Mellon University in Energy & Environmental Science.
    Goodenough responded to the skepticism, stating: "The answer is that if the lithium plated on the cathode current collector is thin enough for its reaction with the current collector to have its Fermi energy lowered to that of the current collector, the Fermi energy of the lithium anode is higher than that of the thin lithium plated on the cathode current collector." Goodenough went on to say in a later interview with Slashdot that the lithium plated on the cathode is on the "order of a micron thick".
    Goodenough's response has drawn further skepticism from Daniel Steingart and also Matthew Lacey of Uppsala University, who point out that this underpotential deposition effect is only known for extremely thin layers (monolayers) of materials
  • This operating mechanism is radically different from the insertion (intercalation) mechanism of most conventional Li-ion battery materials.
    In 2018, a new version was described by most of the same authors in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, in which the cathode is coated with a special plasticiser solution to avoid interface cracking as different materials expand at different rates
  • No momentum supporting factor found

    Challenge supporting factors

  • (cathode, energy)
  • (energy, goodenough)
  • (energy, fermi)
  • (energy, environmental_science)
  • (daniel_steingart, energy)
  • (energy, venkat_viswanathan)
  • (energy, uppsala_university)
  • Work-in-progress supporting factors

  • (cathode, energy)
  • (energy, environmental_science)
  • Complex Event Time Series Summary - REPORT


    Time PeriodChallengeMomentumWIP
    Report69.23 0.00 30.77

    High Level Abstraction (HLA) combined

    High Level Abstraction (HLA)Report
    (1) (cathode,energy)100.00
    (2) (energy,environmental_science)52.94
    (3) (energy,goodenough)41.18
    (4) (energy,fermi)35.29
    (5) (daniel_steingart,energy)17.65
    (6) (energy,venkat_viswanathan)11.76
    (7) (energy,uppsala_university)5.88

    Complex Event Analysis - REPORT

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    Supporting narratives:

    • challenge (Read more)
      • Goodenough's high reputation was enough to deter the strongest criticism however, with Daniel Steingart of Princeton University commenting, "If anyone but Goodenough published this, I would be, well, it's hard to find a polite word." A formal comment was published by Steingart and Venkat Viswanathan from Carnegie Mellon University in Energy & Environmental Science.
        Goodenough responded to the skepticism, stating: "The answer is that if the lithium plated on the cathode current collector is thin enough for its reaction with the current collector to have its Fermi energy lowered to that of the current collector, the Fermi energy of the lithium anode is higher than that of the thin lithium plated on the cathode current collector." Goodenough went on to say in a later interview with Slashdot that the lithium plated on the cathode is on the "order of a micron thick".
        Goodenough's response has drawn further skepticism from Daniel Steingart and also Matthew Lacey of Uppsala University, who point out that this underpotential deposition effect is only known for extremely thin layers (monolayers) of materials
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (cathode,energy)
        • (energy,uppsala_university)
        • (energy,venkat_viswanathan)
        • (energy,fermi)
        • (energy,environmental_science)

    • challenge (Read more)
      • Any energy stored or released by the battery would therefore violate the first law of thermodynamics. Goodenough's high reputation was enough to deter the strongest criticism however, with Daniel Steingart of Princeton University commenting, "If anyone but Goodenough published this, I would be, well, it's hard to find a polite word." A formal comment was published by Steingart and Venkat Viswanathan from Carnegie Mellon University in Energy & Environmental Science.
        Goodenough responded to the skepticism, stating: "The answer is that if the lithium plated on the cathode current collector is thin enough for its reaction with the current collector to have its Fermi energy lowered to that of the current collector, the Fermi energy of the lithium anode is higher than that of the thin lithium plated on the cathode current collector." Goodenough went on to say in a later interview with Slashdot that the lithium plated on the cathode is on the "order of a micron thick".
        Goodenough's response has drawn further skepticism from Daniel Steingart and also Matthew Lacey of Uppsala University, who point out that this underpotential deposition effect is only known for extremely thin layers (monolayers) of materials
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (energy,goodenough)
        • (daniel_steingart,energy)

    • WIP (Read more)
      • This operating mechanism is radically different from the insertion (intercalation) mechanism of most conventional Li-ion battery materials.
        In 2018, a new version was described by most of the same authors in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, in which the cathode is coated with a special plasticiser solution to avoid interface cracking as different materials expand at different rates
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (cathode,energy)

    • WIP (Read more)
      • It uses a glass electrolyte and lithium or sodium metal electrodes.
        The battery was invented by John B. Goodenough, inventor of the lithium cobalt oxide and lithium iron phosphate electrode materials used in the lithium-ion battery (Li-ion), and Maria H. Braga, an associate professor at the University of Porto and a senior research fellow at Cockrell Scho
        ol of Engineering at The University of Texas. The paper describing the battery was published in Energy & Environmental Science in December 2016.
        Hydro-Quebec is researching the battery for possible production.
        Glass Electrolyte Research
        In September 2016 Iowa State University was granted U.S. $1.6 million to develop new lithium-ion-conducting glassy solid electrolytes
      • High Level Abstractions:
        • (energy,environmental_science)

    Target rule match count: 7.0 Challenge: 0.35 Momentum: 0.00 WIP: 0.15