Battery Materials Design Essentials

1.INTRODUCTION The advanced materials industry is one of the leading technology sectors worldwide.The development of such materials is at the core of the technological innovations and has been possible in the last century thanks to the transition from“observational”science to“control”science.Indeed,knowledge of the structure and dynamics of matter at different length scales has enabled replacing serendipity and Edisonian trial-and-error approaches with intention and rational materials engineering,and this has accelerated progresses in a wide range of technologies which are now crucial for our daily lives but could not even be imagined a century ago.