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SUMMARY:Making Better Salts: Synthesis and Design of Electrolytes to Study 
 Interphase Formation for Calcium-metal Batteries
LOCATION:Chemistry A101
TZID:America/Denver
DTSTART:20261013T160000
UID:2026-10-13-23-02-00@natsci.colostate.edu
DTSTAMP:20261013T230200
Description:Seminar Abstract:\n\nCalcium metal\\'s abundance and electroche
 mical properties motivate research towards its use in secondary batteries.
  Due to passivation of the metal in common battery salts and solvents\, th
 ere is a need for new electrolytes which create an interphase that is elec
 tronically insulating in the voltage window of the battery\, but ionically
  conductive.  The seminar is based on work by Li et al. (Nat. Energy 2024
 )\, which outlines a simple galvanic-replacement-based synthesis of calciu
 m-organoborate salts for electrolytes\, and studies the resulting interpha
 se formed for calcium-metal batteries. The central question I will discuss
  is how anion design influences the reversible deposition of calcium throu
 gh transport and interphase chemistry. 4:00 pm
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