Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Examples of materials discovered through new technique: Lithium-containing compounds called sidorenkites were identified as potential battery cathode materials through high-throughput computational exploration. No lithium-containing materials with the CO3 and PO4 chemical groups found in these compounds exist in nature — these materials are fully synthetic and unexpected. Depending on the specific metal in them, they take on distinct colors (shown here). IMAGE COURTESY OF THE RESEARCHERS

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