Xu Gao, Biao Li, Kurt Kummer, Andrey Geondzhian, Dmitry A. Aksyonov, Rémi Dedryvère, Dominique Foix, Gwenaëlle Rousse, Mouna Ben Yahia, Marie-Liesse Doublet, Artem M. Abakumov & Jean-Marie Tarascon*. Clarifying the origin of molecular O2 in cathode oxides . Nature Materials 2025. doi.org/10.1038/s41563-025-02144-7.

Yuxuan Zuo, Jiahui Liu, Hangchao Wang, Ying Zou, Tie Luo, Kun Zhang, Yali Yang, Chuan Gao, Biao Li*, Qiang Sun*, Dingguo Xia*. T#2-Li0.69CoO2: A Durable, High-Capacity, High-Rate Cathode Material for Lithium-Ion Batteries.  Advanced Materials 2024. 10.1002/adma.202412920.

Elisa Grépin, Yue Zhou, Biao Li, Gwenaëlle Rousse, Jean-Marie Tarascon, Sathiya Mariyappan*.Optimal Ti-Substitution in Layered Oxide Cathodes for Na-Ion Batteries. Chemistry of Materials 2024. 10.1021/acs.chemmater.4c02501.

Xu Gao, Biao Li, Gwenaëlle Rousse, Anatolii V. Morozov, Michaël Deschamps, Erik Elkaïm, Leiting Zhang, Kurt Kummer, Artem M. Abakumov, Jean-Marie Tarascon*. Achieving High-Voltage Stability in Li-Rich Ni-Rich Oxides with Local W/Ni(Li) Superstructure.  Advanced Energy Materials 2024. 10.1002/aenm.202402793.

Biao Li*, Kun Zhang, Yali Yang, Yuxuan Zuo, Xiang Li*, Dingguo Xia* Perspectives on the Practicability of Li‐Rich NMC Layered Oxide Cathodes  Advanced Materials 2024. DOI: 10.1002/adma.202400259.

Simon Redor, Louis Godeffroy, Gwenaëlle Rousse, Artem M. Abakumov, Biao Li, Frédéric Kanoufi, Jean-Marie Tarascon*. Electrochromic Corundum-like Compound Based on the Reversible (De)insertion of Lithium: Li2Ni2W2O9. Journal of American Chemical Society 2023. DOI:10.1021/jacs.3c03631.

Biao Li, Gwenaëlle Rousse, Leiting Zhang, Maxim Avdeev, Michaël Deschamps, Artem M. Abakumov, Jean-Marie Tarascon*, Constructing “Li-rich Ni-rich” oxide cathodes for high-energy-density Li-ion batteries. Energy & Environmental Science 2023, 16 (3), 1210-1222.

Da Wang, Yao Jiao, Wei Shi, Bowei Pu, Fanghua Ning, Jin Yi, Yuan Ren, Jia Yu, Yajie Li, Hongxia Wang, Biao Li, Yutao Li, Cewen Nan, Liquan Chen, Siqi Shi*, Fundamentals and advances of ligand field theory in understanding structure-electrochemical property relationship of intercalation-type electrode materials for rechargeable batteries. Progress in Materials Science 2023, 133, 101055.

Biao Li, Khagesh Kumar, Indrani Roy, Anatolii V. Morozov, Olga V. Emelyanova, Leiting Zhang, Tuncay Koç, Stéphanie Belin, Jordi Cabana, Rémi Dedryvère, Artem M. Abakumov & Jean-Marie Tarascon* Capturing dynamic ligand-to-metal charge transfer with a long-lived cationic intermediate for anionic redox. Nature Materials 2022, 21 (10), 1165-1174. 

Yangyang Lai, Huixian Xie, Peng Li, Biao Li, Along Zhao, Laibing Luo, Zewen Jiang, Yongjin Fang*, Shengli Chen, Xinping Ai, Dingguo Xia*, Yuliang Cao*, Ion-Migration Mechanism: An Overall Understanding of Anionic Redox Activity in Metal Oxide Cathodes of Li/Na-Ion Batteries. Advanced Materials 2022, 34 (47), e2206039.

Kun Zhang, Zewen Jiang, Fanghua Ning, Biao Li, Huaifang Shang, Jin Song, Yuxuan Zuo, Tonghuan Yang, Guang Feng, Xinping Ai, Dingguo Xia*. Metal-ligand pi Interactions in lithium-rich Li₂RhO₃ cathode material activate bimodal anionic redox. Advanced Energy Materials 2021, 11, (30), 2100892.

Biao Li, Moulay Tahar Sougrati, Gwenaëlle Rousse, Anatolii V. Morozov, Rémi Dedryvère, Antonella Iadecola, Anatoliy Senyshyn, Leiting Zhang, Artem M. Abakumov, Marie-Liesse Doublet & Jean-Marie Tarascon* Correlating ligand-to-metal charge transfer with voltage hysteresis in a Li-rich rock-salt compound exhibiting anionic redox. Nature Chemistry 2021, 13, 1070-1080. 

Biao Li, Gaurav Assat, Paul E. Pearce, Victoria A. Nikitina, Antonella Iadecola, Charles Delacourt, Jean-Marie Tarascon*, Exploring the Kinetic Limitations Causing Unusual Low-Voltage Li Reinsertion in Either Layered or Tridimensional Li₂IrO₃ Cathode Materials. Chemistry of Materials 2020, 32, 2133-2147.

Ning, F.; Li, B.; Song, J.; Zuo, Y.; Shang, H.; Zhao, Z.; Yu, Z.; Chu, W.; Zhang, K.; Feng, G.; Wang, X.; Xia, D*. Inhibition of oxygen dimerization by local symmetry tuning in Li-rich layered oxides for improved stability. Nature Communications, 2020, 11, 4973.

Song, J.; Li, B.; Chen, Y.; Zuo, Y.; Ning, F.; Shang, H.; Feng, G.; Liu, N.; Shen, C.; Ai, X.*; Xia, D.*, A High-Performance Li-Mn-O Li-rich Cathode Material with Rhombohedral Symmetry via Intralayer Li/Mn Disordering. Advanced Materials 2020, e2000190.

Li, B.#; Wang, Y.#; Jiang, N.#; An, L.; Song, J.; Zuo, Y.; Ning, F.; Shang, H.; Xia, D.*, Electrolytic-anion-redox adsorption pseudocapacitance in nanosized lithium-free transition metal oxides as cathode materials for Li-ion batteries. Nano Energy 2020, 72, 104727.

Zhang, K.; Li, B.; Zuo, Y.; Song, J.; Shang, H.; Ning, F.; Xia, D.*, Voltage Decay in Layered Li-Rich Mn-Based Cathode Materials. Electrochemical Energy Reviews 2019, 2, 606-623.

Yu, Z.; Ning, F.; Li, B.; Sun, Z.; Chu, W.; Xia, D.*, Mitigating Voltage Decay of Li-Rich Layered Oxide by Incorporation of 5d Metal Rhenium. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2019, 123, (31), 18870-18876.

Tao, S.; Li, B.; Zhang, J.; Cui, P.; Wu, D.; Chu, W.; Qian, B.; Song, L.*, In situ synthesis of ultrasmall MnO nanoparticles encapsulated by a nitrogen-doped carbon matrix for high-performance lithium-ion batteries. Chem Commun 2019, 55, (62), 9184-9187.

Ning, F.; Shang, H.; Li, B.; Jiang, N.; Zou, R.; Xia, D.*, Surface thermodynamic stability of Li-rich Li2MnO3: Effect of defective graphene. Energy Storage Materials 2019, 22, 113-119.

Li, B., Studies on Anionic Redox in Li-Rich Cathode Materials of Li-Ion Batteries. Springer 2019.

Feng, G.; An, L.; Li, B.; Zuo, Y.; Song, J.; Ning, F.; Jiang, N.; Cheng, X.; Zhang, Y.; Xia, D.*, Atomically ordered non-precious Co₃Ta intermetallic nanoparticles as high-performance catalysts for hydrazine electrooxidation. Nature Communications 2019, 10, (1).

Zuo, Y.#; Li, B.#; Jiang, N.#; Chu, W.; Zhang, H.; Zou, R.; Xia, D.*, A High-Capacity O2-Type Li-Rich Cathode Material with a Single-Layer Li₂MnO₃ Superstructure. Advanced Materials 2018, 30, (16), e1707255. (co-first author)

Shang, H.; Ning, F.; Li, B.; Zuo, Y.; Lu, S.; Xia, D.*, Suppressing Voltage Decay of a Lithium-Rich Cathode Material by Surface Enrichment with Atomic Ruthenium. ACS applied materials & interfaces 2018, 10, (25), 21349-21355.

Li, B.#; Jiang, N.#; Huang, W.; Yan, H.; Zuo, Y.; Xia, D.*, Thermodynamic Activation of Charge Transfer in Anionic Redox Process for Li-Ion Batteries. Advanced Functional Materials 2018, 28, (4), 1704864.

Jiang, N.; Li, B.; Ning, F. H.; Xia, D. G.*, All boron-based 2D material as anode material in Li-ion batteries. Journal of Energy Chemistry 2018, 27, (6), 1651-1654.

An, L.; Jiang, N.; Li, B.; Hua, S.; Fu, Y.; Liu, J.; Hao, W.; Xia, D.*; Sun, Z., A highly active and durable iron/cobalt alloy catalyst encapsulated in N-doped graphitic carbon nanotubes for oxygen reduction reaction by a nanofibrous dicyandiamide template. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2018, 6, (14), 5962-5970.

Yan, H.; Li, B.; Yu, Z.; Chu, W.; Xia, D.*, First-Principles Study: Tuning the Redox Behavior of Lithium-Rich Layered Oxides by Chlorine Doping. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2017, 121, (13), 7155-7163.

Li, B.; Yan, H. J.; Zuo, Y. X.; Xia, D. G.*, Tuning the Reversibility of Oxygen Redox in Lithium-Rich Layered Oxides. Chemistry of Materials 2017, 29, (7), 2811-2818.

Li, B.; Xia, D.*, Anionic Redox in Rechargeable Lithium Batteries. Advanced Materials 2017, 29, (48), 1701054.

Wei, H.; Ma, J.; Li, B.; An, L.; Kong, J.; Yu, P.; Xia, D.*, Tuning ultrafine manganese oxide nanowire synthesis seeded by Si particles and its superior Li storage behaviors. NPG Asia Materials 2016, 8, (3), e255.

Ma, J.; Yan, H.; Li, B.; Xia, Z.; Huang, W.; An, L.; Xia, D.*, Tuning the Electronic Structure of the Metal–Oxygen Group by Silicon Substitution in Lithium-Rich Manganese-Based Oxides for Superior Performance. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2016, 120, (25), 13421-13426.

Li, B.; Shao, R.; Yan, H.; An, L.; Zhang, B.; Wei, H.; Ma, J.; Xia, D.*; Han, X.*, Understanding the Stability for Li-Rich Layered Oxide Li₂RuO₃ Cathode. Advanced Functional Materials 2016, 26, (9), 1330-1337.

An, L.; Yan, H.; Chen, X.; Li, B.; Xia, Z.; Xia, D.*, Catalytic performance and mechanism of N-CoTi@CoTiO₃ catalysts for oxygen reduction reaction. Nano Energy 2016, 20, 134-143.

Peng, M.; Li, B.; Yan, H.; Zhang, D.; Wang, X.*; Xia, D.*; Guo, G.*, Ruthenium-Oxide-Coated Sodium Vanadium Fluorophosphate Nanowires as High-Power Cathode Materials for Sodium-Ion Batteries. Angewandte Chemie 2015, 127  (22), 6552-6556.

Ma, J.; Li, B.; An, L.; Wei, H.; Wang, X.; Yu, P.; Xia, D.*, A highly homogeneous nanocoating strategy for Li-rich Mn-based layered oxides based on chemical conversion. Journal of Power Sources 2015, 277, 393-402.

Huang, W.; Zhou, J.; Li, B.; An, L.; Cui, P.; Xia, W.; Song, L.; Xia, D.*; Chu, W.*; Wu, Z.*, A New Route Toward Improved Sodium Ion Batteries: A Multifunctional Fluffy Na_0.67FePO₄/CNT Nanocactus. Small 2015, 11, (18), 2170-2176.

Huang, W.; Li, B.; Saleem, M. F.; Wu, X.; Li, J.; Lin, J.; Xia, D.*; Chu, W.*; Wu, Z.*, Self-assembled alluaudite Na(2)Fe(3-x)Mn(x)(PO4)(3) micro/nanocompounds for sodium-ion battery electrodes: a new insight into their electronic and geometric structure. Chemistry - A European Journal 2015, 21, (2), 851-860.

An, L.; Yan, H.; Li, B.; Ma, J.; Wei, H.; Xia, D.*, Highly active N–PtTe/reduced graphene oxide intermetallic catalyst for formic acid oxidation. Nano Energy 2015, 15, 24-32.

ZhenYao, W.; Biao, L.; Jin, M.; DingGuo, X.*, Molten salt synthesis and high-performance of nanocrystalline Li-rich cathode materials. RSC Advances 2014, 4, (30), 15825.

ZhenYao, W.; Biao, L.; Jin, M.; DingGuo, X.*, The Enhanced Electrochemical Performance of Nanocrystalline Li[Li_0.26Ni_0.11Mn_0.63]O₂ Synthesized by the Molten-Salt Method for Li-ion batteries. Electrochimica Acta 2014, 117, 285-291.

Zhao, X.; Xia, D.*; Gu, L.; Yue, J.; Li, B.; Wei, H.; Yan, H.; Zou, R.; Wang, Y.; Wang, X.; Zhang, Z.; Li, J., High-performance self-organized Si nanocomposite anode for lithium-ion batteries. Journal of Energy Chemistry 2014, 23, (3), 291-300.

Wei, H.; Ma, J.; Li, B.; Zuo, Y.; Xia, D.*, Enhanced cycle performance of lithium-sulfur batteries using a separator modified with a PVDF-C layer. ACS applied materials & interfaces 2014, 6, (22), 20276-81.

Li, B.; Yan, H.; Ma, J.; Yu, P.; Xia, D.*; Huang, W.; Chu, W.*; Wu, Z.*, Manipulating the Electronic Structure of Li-Rich Manganese-Based Oxide Using Polyanions: Towards Better Electrochemical Performance. Advanced Functional Materials 2014, 24, (32), 5112-5118.

Huang, W. F.; Zhou, J.; Li, B.; Ma, J.; Tao, S.; Xia, D. G.*; Chu, W. S.*; Wu, Z. Y.*, Detailed investigation of Na2.24FePO4CO3 as a cathode material for Na-ion batteries. Sci Rep 2014, 4 (1), 4188.