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Nature Materials 1, 81 - 82 (2002)
doi:10.1038/nmat736

Lithium-ion batteries: An unexpected conductor

Michael Thackeray1

  1. Michael Thackeray is at the Chemical Technology Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois 60439, USA e-mail: thackeray@cmt.anl.gov


The discovery that the electronic conductivity of LiFePO4 can be increased by eight orders of magnitude may have a profound impact on the next generation of lithium-ion batteries.

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