Structural Chemistry

Within the structural chemistry research programme, we research the materials' chemical structure and dynamics, properties and mechanisms, at the atomic and molecular level.
Our research
Chemical structure and dynamics, properties and mechanisms, at the atomic and molecular level of materials are at the core for the research within the Structural Chemistry programme – both in fundamental and applied projects.
Our toolbox consists of both experimental (X-ray and neutron diffraction, vibrational spectroscopy, photoelelectron spectroscopy, etc.) and computational (DFT, MD, multiscale modelling) techniques, with a current focus on the use of large-scale facilities and method development to understand the relationships between atomic-level structure and materials performance.
Much research is currently focused on advanced materials for electrochemical energy storage systems, particularly different types of – both organic and inorganic – chemistries for rechargeable batteries in an interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary fashion.
ÅABC - Ångström Advanced Battery Center
Lithium batteries and fuel cells for electric vehicles, micro batteries and lithium-air batteries.

Theoretical inorganic chemistry
Condensed matter chemistry - how a molecule's properties are affected by its surroundings.

EU projects, research initiatives and center formations
Within the research programme for structural chemistry, we have a broad collaboration and are involved in a number of EU projects and competence centers, for instance BATTERY 2030+ and Batteries Sweden (BASE) which we are coordinating.
Publications
Electronic Response and Charge Inversion at Polarized Gold Electrode
Part of Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2025
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Ion-pairing: A Bygone Treatment of Electrolyte Solutions?
Part of Batteries & Supercaps, 2025
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Part of ChemSusChem, 2025
- DOI for Boron Surface Treatment of Li7La3Zr2O12 Enabling Solid Composite Electrolytes for Li-Metal Battery Applications
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Part of ACS Applied Polymer Materials, p. 3112-3121, 2025
- DOI for Interfacial Structure and Reactions in Li6.7Al0.3La3Zr2O12-Doped Polycarbonate-Based Composite Polymer Electrolytes
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Exploring atmospheric plasma spraying as a pathway to fabricate solid-state battery constituents
Part of Surface & Coatings Technology, 2025
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Part of Journal of Materials Chemistry A, p. 2849-2858, 2025
- DOI for Investigation of charge transfer models on the evolution of phases in lithium iron phosphate batteries using phase-field simulations
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Structural and magnetic properties of the 1/1 Sm-Au-Al and Ho-Au-Al quasicrystal approximants
Part of Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 2025
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Part of Journal of Power Sources, 2025
Machine learning-driven predictive modeling of mechanical properties in diverse steels
Part of MACHINE LEARNING WITH APPLICATIONS, 2025
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Precursor to quantum criticality in Ce-Au-Al quasicrystal approximants
Part of Physical Review Research, 2025
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PiNN: Equivariant Neural Network Suite for Modeling Electrochemical Systems
Part of Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, p. 1382-1395, 2025
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Part of Optical materials (Amsterdam), 2025
Part of Acta Materialia, 2025
- DOI for Engineering Hard Ferrite Composites by Combining Nanostructuring and Al3+ Substitution: from Nano to Dense Bulk Magnets
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Facile one-step fabrication of Li4Ti5O12 coatings by suspension plasma spraying
Part of Materials research bulletin, 2025
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Synthesis of fullerite (100) through epitaxy on a complex intermetallic surface
Part of Applied Surface Science, 2025
Part of Physical Chemistry, Chemical Physics - PCCP, p. 834-843, 2025
Part of Journal of Physics, 2025
Part of Journal of Power Sources, 2025
- DOI for Performance-optimized diatom-SiOx anodes for Li-ion batteries by preserving the nanostructured SiO2 shells of diatom microalgae and tailoring oxygen content
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Filling data analysis gaps in time-resolved crystallography by machine learning
Part of Structural Dynamics, 2025
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The dynamics of plasmon-induced hot carrier creation in colloidal gold
Part of Nature Communications, 2025
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The entropic origin of the enhancement of liquid diffusion close to a neutral confining surface
Part of Journal of Chemical Physics, 2024
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Part of Langmuir, p. 12009-12016, 2024
- DOI for Adsorption of Glycine on TiO2 in Water from On-the-fly Free-Energy Calculations and In Situ Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy
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The Influence of Reorientational and Vibrational Dynamics on the Mg2+ Conductivity in Mg(BH4)2CH3NH2
Part of Chemistry of Materials, p. 9784-9792, 2024
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Initial SEI formation in LiBOB-, LiDFOB- and LiBF4-containing PEO electrolytes
Part of Journal of Materials Chemistry A, p. 9184-9199, 2024
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Electrochemical model-based aging-adaptive fast charging of automotive lithium-ion cells
Part of Applied Energy, 2024
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Part of ChemElectroChem, 2024
- DOI for Influence of Molecular Weight and End Groups on Ion Transport in Weakly and Strongly Coordinating Polymer Electrolytes
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Part of Solid State Ionics, 2024
- DOI for Implementation of Highly Crystalline Polyketones as Solid Polymer Electrolytes in high-temperature Lithium Metal Batteries
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Part of The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, p. 16393-16399, 2024
- DOI for Transference Numbers and Ion Coordination Strength for Mg2+, Na+, and K+ in Solid Polymer Electrolytes
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Charting the course to solid-state dual-ion batteries
Part of Carbon Energy, 2024
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An XPS Study of Electrolytes for Li-Ion Batteries in Full Cell LNMO vs Si/Graphite
Part of ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, p. 34266-34280, 2024
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Modeling of Nanomaterials for Supercapacitors: Beyond Carbon Electrodes
Part of ACS Nano, p. 19931-19949, 2024
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Part of Batteries & Supercaps, 2024
- DOI for Importance of First Cycle Conditions on the Electrochemical Performance of Hard Carbon and Prussian White Based Sodium-Ion Batteries Using Fire Resistant, Fluorine-Free Electrolyte
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Magnetic property changes of NdGa upon hydrogen absorption
Part of Physical Review B, 2024
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On the Elusive Crystallography of Lithium-Rich Layered Oxides: Novel Structural Models
Part of Small Methods, 2024
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Part of Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 2024
Part of Journal of Materials Chemistry A, p. 25393-25406, 2024
- DOI for Study of degradation mechanisms in aqueous-processed Ni-rich cathodes for enhanced sustainability of batteries
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Part of Journal of Materials Chemistry A, p. 11038-11048, 2024
Influence of state of charge window on the degradation of Tesla lithium-ion battery cells
Part of Journal of Energy Storage, 2024
Anodic dissolution of aluminum in non-aqueous electrolyte solutions for sodium-ion batteries
Part of Energy Advances, p. 143-148, 2024
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Li7La3Zr2O12 interface functionalization via boric acid treatment: A step to contact improvement
Part of Applied Surface Science, 2024
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Eu Doping in the GdCd7.88 Quasicrystal and Its Approximant Crystal GdCd6
Part of Inorganic Chemistry, p. 5040-5051, 2024
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Magnetic frustration and glassiness in an icosahedral i-Tb-Cd quasicrystal
Part of Physical Review B, 2024
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Magnetic properties of quenched binary and ternary quasicrystal approximants
Part of Scientific Reports, 2024
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Exploiting hot electrons from a plasmon nanohybrid system for the photoelectroreduction of CO2
Part of Communications Chemistry, 2024
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Understanding Ion Transport in Alkyl Dicarbonates: An Experimental and Computational Study
Part of ACS Physical Chemistry Au, p. 80-91, 2024
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Online acoustic emission sensing of rechargeable batteries: technology, status, and prospects
Part of Journal of Materials Chemistry A, p. 23280-23296, 2024
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Part of Research on chemical intermediates (Print), p. 5167-5182, 2024
Probing spin waves in Co3O4 nanoparticles for magnonics applications
Part of Nanoscale, p. 1291-1303, 2024
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Part of Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2024
- DOI for The Origin of Rapid Capacity Loss in 1,1,1‐Trifluoroethyl Methyl Carbonate – Based Lithium‐Ion Battery Electrolytes
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Part of Batteries & Supercaps, 2024
- DOI for Interfacial Decomposition Behaviour of Triethyl Phosphate‐Based Electrolytes for Lithium‐Ion Batteries
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Contact
- If you have any questions regarding our research you are welcome to contact professor Daniel Brandell.
- Daniel Brandell