ABSTRACT
The global impact of greenhouse gases from internal combustion engines and coal-fired power plants has motivated the demand for green energy, such as harvesting and storing electrical energy from wind and solar power, and hence triggering the development of electric energy storage devices. Lithium-ion battery technology experienced tremendous success in portable consumer electronic devices, making it the most investigated battery technology. Structural and interfacial modifications of the extensively studied graphite further lead to next-generation battery materials. The efforts to develop a material less expensive than LiCoO with a stable structure led to the layered ternary compound that had a compromise of all the highlight properties of the end members and remains one of the hottest topics in battery research and development. One challenge for all-solid-state battery is the contact between the electrode and solid electrolyte because the attachment of two different solid materials will result in huge interfacial charge-transfer resistance.
