BAR-ILAN INSTITUTE OF NANOTECHNOLOGY & ADVANCED MATERIALS | 2019 ANNUAL REPORT

50 • J. Park, S. H. Lee, H. Jung, D. Aurbach, and Y. Sun, “Redox Mediators for Li–O2 Batteries: Status and Perspectives,” Adv. Mater., vol. 30, no. 1, p. 1704162, 2018 . • T. R. Penki et al., “Reaching Highly Stable Specific Capacity with Integrated 0.6Li 2 MnO 3 : 0.4 LiNi 0.6 Co 0.2 O 2 Cathode Materials,” ChemElectroChem, 2018 . • N. Shpigel, M. D. Levi, S. Sigalov, L. Daikhin, and D. Aurbach, “In Situ Real- Time Mechanical and Morphological Characterization of Electrodes for Electrochemical Energy Storage and Conversion by Electrochemical Quartz Crystal Microbalance with Dissipation Monitoring,” Acc. Chem. Res., 2018 . • N. Shpigel et al., “In Situ Acoustic Diagnostics of Particle-Binder Interactions in Battery Electrodes,” Joule, 2018 . • Cohen, B. Shapira, E. Avraham, A. Soffer, and D. Aurbach, “Bromide Ions Specific Removal and Recovery by Electrochemical Desalination,” Environ. Sci. Technol., p. acs. est.8b00282, 2018 . • Shapira, I. Cohen, T. R. Penki, E. Avraham, and D. Aurbach, “Energy extraction and water treatment in one system: The idea of using a desalination battery in a cooling tower,” J. Power Sources, vol. 378, pp. 146–152, 2018 . • F. Schipper et al., “From Surface ZrO 2 Coating to Bulk Zr Doping by High Temperature Annealing of Nickel-Rich Lithiated Oxides and Their Enhanced Electrochemical Performance in Lithium Ion Batteries,” Adv. Energy Mater., vol. 8, no. 4, p. 1701682, 2018 . • N. Leifer et al., “Ammonia Treatment of 0.35Li 2 MnO 3 ·0.65LiNi 0.35 Mn 0.45 Co 0.2 0O 2 Material: Insights from Solid-State NMR Analysis,” J. Phys. Chem. C, vol. 122, no. 7, pp. 3773–3779, Feb. 2018 . • Hirshberg et al., “Shedding Light on the Oxygen Reduction Reaction Mechanism in Ether-Based Electrolyte Solutions: A Study Using Operando UV–Vis Spectroscopy,” ACS Appl. Mater. 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