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  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in France Leader Award
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Overview

Michel Armand is a researcher affiliated with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France with a primary focus on engineering, particularly in the areas of electrical and electronic engineering and automotive engineering. Their scholarly work spans materials chemistry, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, and catalysis.

The main topics of their research include advanced battery materials and technologies, advancements in battery materials, and advanced battery technologies research. Other topics they have contributed to involve thermal expansion and ionic conductivity, supercapacitor materials and fabrication, as well as ionic liquids properties and applications.

Michel Armand has published extensively, with notable recent papers including:

  • Lithium-ion batteries - Current state of the art and anticipated developments (2020, Journal of Power Sources)
  • Production of high-energy Li-ion batteries comprising silicon-containing anodes and insertion-type cathodes (2021, Nature Communications)
  • Electrolytes and Interphases in Sodium-Based Rechargeable Batteries: Recent Advances and Perspectives (2020, Advanced Energy Materials)
  • Mobile Ions in Composite Solids (2020, Chemical Reviews)
  • A reflection on polymer electrolytes for solid-state lithium metal batteries (2023, Nature Communications)

Frequent collaborators in their research include Heng Zhang, María Martínez-Ibáñez, Maria Forsyth, Devaraj Shanmukaraj, and Wenfang Feng.

The primary publication venues for Michel Armand's work reflect their specialization, with multiple works published in:

  • ECS Meeting Abstracts
  • Journal of Power Sources
  • Journal of The Electrochemical Society
  • Nature Communications
  • Advanced Energy Materials

The scientist's extensive publication record and multidisciplinary approach emphasize the integration of materials science and engineering aspects within the field of battery technology and related electrochemical systems.

Best Publications

  • Issues and challenges facing rechargeable lithium batteries

    Jean-Marie Tarascon;Michel Armand

  • Building better batteries

    Michel Armand;Jean‐marie Tarascon

  • Ionic-liquid materials for the electrochemical challenges of the future.

    Michel Armand;F Endres;Douglas Robert Macfarlane;Hiroyuki Ohno

  • A new class of Solvent-in-Salt electrolyte for high-energy rechargeable metallic lithium batteries

    Liumin Suo;Yong-Sheng Hu;Hong Li;Michel Armand

  • Single-ion BAB triblock copolymers as highly efficient electrolytes for lithium-metal batteries

    Renaud Bouchet;Sébastien Maria;Rachid Meziane;Abdelmaula Aboulaich

  • Microscopic investigation of ionic conductivity in alkali metal salts-poly(ethylene oxide) adducts

    C. Berthier;W. Gorecki;M. Minier;M.B. Armand

  • Polymer Electrolytes for Lithium-Based Batteries: Advances and Prospects

    Dong Zhou;Devaraj Shanmukaraj;Anastasia Tkacheva;Michel Armand

  • New horizons for inorganic solid state ion conductors

    Zhizhen Zhang;Zhizhen Zhang;Yuanjun Shao;Bettina V. Lotsch;Yong-Sheng Hu

  • Single lithium-ion conducting solid polymer electrolytes: advances and perspectives

    Heng Zhang;Chunmei Li;Michal Piszcz;Estibaliz Coya

  • Conjugated dicarboxylate anodes for Li-ion batteries.

    Michel Armand;Sylvie Grugeon;H. Vezin;Stéphane Laruelle

  • The Performance and Stability of Ambient Temperature Molten Salts for Solar Cell Applications

    N. Papageorgiou;Y. Athanassov;M. Armand;P. Bonho⁁te

  • Polymer solid electrolytes - an overview

    Michel Armand

  • High temperature sodium batteries: status, challenges and future trends

    Karina B. Hueso;Michel Armand;Teófilo Rojo

  • Room temperature molten salts as lithium battery electrolyte

    Béatrice Garcia;Serge Lavallée;Gérald Perron;Christophe Michot

  • Electroactivity of natural and synthetic triphylite

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  • Lithium-ion batteries - current state of the art and anticipated developments

    Michel Armand;Peter Axmann;Dominic Bresser;Mark Copley

  • Direct atomic-scale confirmation of three-phase storage mechanism in Li 4 Ti 5 O 12 anodes for room-temperature sodium-ion batteries

    Yang Sun;Liang Zhao;Huilin Pan;Xia Lu

  • Electrochemical performance of Li2FeSiO4 as a new Li-battery cathode material

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  • Advanced High-Voltage Aqueous Lithium-Ion Battery Enabled by "Water-in-Bisalt" Electrolyte.

    Liumin Suo;Oleg Borodin;Wei Sun;Xiulin Fan

  • The plastic-crystalline phase of succinonitrile as a universal matrix for solid-state ionic conductors

    Pierre Jean Alarco;Yaser Abu-Lebdeh;Ali Abouimrane;Michel Armand

  • From biomass to a renewable LixC6O6 organic electrode for sustainable Li-ion batteries.

    Haiyan Chen;Michel Armand;Gilles Demailly;Franck Dolhem

  • The history of polymer electrolytes

    Michel Armand

  • A 3.6 V lithium-based fluorosulphate insertion positive electrode for lithium-ion batteries.

    Nadir Recham;Jean-Noel Chotard;Loic Dupont;Charles Delacourt

  • Electrochemical study of Li4Ti5O12 as negative electrode for Li-ion polymer rechargeable batteries

    K. Zaghib;M. Simoneau;M. Armand;M. Gauthier

  • Phase Diagrams and Conductivity Behavior of Poly(ethylene oxide)-Molten Salt Rubbery Electrolytes

    S. Lascaud;M. Perrier;A. Vallee;S. Besner

Frequent Co-Authors

Teófilo Rojo
Teófilo Rojo University of the Basque Country
Maria Forsyth
Maria Forsyth Deakin University
Jean-Marie Tarascon
Jean-Marie Tarascon Collège de France
Patrick C. Howlett
Patrick C. Howlett Deakin University
Xuejie Huang
Xuejie Huang Chinese Academy of Sciences
David Mecerreyes
David Mecerreyes University of the Basque Country
Javier Carrasco
Javier Carrasco Spanish National Research Council
Douglas R. MacFarlane
Douglas R. MacFarlane Monash University
Karim Zaghib
Karim Zaghib Concordia University
Sylvie Grugeon
Sylvie Grugeon Laboratoire de Réactivité et Chimie des Solides

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