A review coauthored by Skoltech scientists has made the Top 50 Nature Communications chemistry and materials science articles published in 2020. The paper, entitled “Solid state chemistry for developing better metal-ion batteries,” was published in October last year.

The journal notice says that Nature Communications published more than 6,400 papers in 2020. The review, coauthored by CEST Director, Professor Artem Abakumov, Professor Evgeny Antipov, and Assistant Professor Stanislav Fedotov, is in the top 10 as it has been accessed over 8,900 times.

“Solid state chemistry traditionally holds a powerful toolkit for researches to design and create novel functional materials by merging chemical elements, building atomic arrangements, and forming micro- and macrostructure following long-standing and flawlessly working chemical laws. The interest in solid state chemistry is not fading throughout the time since solid state chemistry continuously validates the reliability and versatility of its guidelines and approaches. It is even increasing because principally new materials keep appearing thanks to solid state chemists, with many of them having literally shaped our modern lifestyle – for instance, J. B. Goodenough, one of the inventors of Li-ion batteries,” Stanislav Fedotov says.

“Writing this review, we just strengthened our perception that solid state chemistry will play the dominating role in the further development of new materials for energy and its contribution to modern and future sustainable technologies cannot be overestimated. And now we can clearly see that this opinion is hugely supported by Nature Communications readership. In CEST, we strongly rely on solid state chemistry which has already helped us boost the development of innovative technologies for electrode materials of metal-ion batteries awaiting immediate commercial deployment,” he adds.

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