Feel free to bounce around and skip liberally. This is your book, meant to be customised. Three of my favourites might help you get started: Letter 13 On Groundless Fears (pg 66), Letter 18 On Festivals and Fasting (pg 90), and Letter 20 On Practising What You Preach (pg 100), which is also hilarious.
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Ziran (自然; zìrán; tzu-jan; lit. "self-so", "self-organization"[66]) is regarded as a central value in Taoism.[67] It describes the "primordial state" of all things[68] as well as a basic character of the Tao,[69] and is usually associated with spontaneity and creativity.[70] To attain naturalness, one has to identify with the Tao;[69] this involves freeing oneself from selfishness and desire, and appreciating simplicity.[67]
While the Tao Te Ching is most well-known, there are many other important texts in traditional Taoism. Taishang Ganying Pian ("Treatise of the Exalted One on Response and Retribution") discusses sin and ethics, and has become a popular morality tract in the last few centuries.[108] It asserts that those in harmony with Tao will live long and fruitful lives. The wicked, and their descendants, will suffer and have shortened lives.[94]
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7. Smile when you need to pick a possible next step. Breathe when needing a break since to breathe is to become one with yourself. Alternate the two and the path will become free and clear for a lifetime of wonder to explore. Anything is possible within this simple practice.
8. Let go of expectations. The more expectations you have of your life, the less you will accomplish or become. A Taoist lives life without expectations, living fully in the here and now. However, as we know, people need a few expectations as it is part of navigating life. We can practice healthy-striving, but like the Stoics, let go of the outcome of your own actions.
Anode-free lithium metal batteries are the most promising candidate to outperform lithium metal batteries due to higher energy density and reduced safety hazards with the absence of metallic lithium anode during initial cell fabrication. In general, researchers report capacity retention, reversible capacity, or rate capability of the cells to study the electrochemical performance of anode-free lithium metal batteries. However, evaluating the behavior of batteries from limited aspects may easily overlook other information hidden deep inside the meretricious results or even lead to misguided data interpretation. In this work, we present an integrated protocol combining different types of cell configuration to determine various sources of irreversible coulombic efficiency in anode-free lithium metal cells. The decrypted information from the protocol provides an insightful understanding of the behaviors of LMBs and AFLMBs, which promotes their development for practical applications.
However, in most of the published works, the electrochemical performance of LMBs/AFLMBs is often discussed by comparing capacity retention, reversible capacity, or rate capability, which easily overlooks or even misunderstands the information that is concealed by the meretricious results when adopting only one or two points of view. To systematically evaluate the electrochemical performance of both LMBs and AFLMBs, and unfold all the messages hidden within the battery, one has to comprehensively examine the information from all the possible perspectives. More importantly, integrating all the unraveled phenomena and messages to have a better overall evaluation of the battery systems is essential. One efficient way is to study the irreversible coulombic efficiency (irr-CE), which may represent the side reactions and sources of capacity loss in the battery. Meng et al.32 demonstrated an analytical method of titration gas chromatography (TGC) to quantify the contribution of dead Li to the total irr-CE in Li/Cu cells, identifying dead Li as the major reason accounted for the capacity loss of Li/Cu cells. They comprehensively discussed the formation of inactive Li and determined the origin of irr-CE of Li anodes within Li/Cu cells by decoupling the dead Li and SEI formation, which provides strategies for more-efficient Li plating and stripping on Cu substrate. However, the important information of the irr-CE or capacity loss from the cathode and cross-talk effects in cathode/Li or anode-free cathode/Cu cells could not be extracted from the TGC method. Thus, there is still a lack of holistic methodology to identify and quantify the irr-CEs in LMBs and AFLMBs.
In this work, we systematically study four different types of cell configuration, including Li/Li symmetric cells33, Li/Cu cells, cathode/Li cells, and cathode/Cu anode-free cells, as an integrated protocol to unfold the intrinsic reasons and contributions of individual irr-CEs from not only Li anodes in Li/Cu cells, but also the cathodes in cathode/Li half-cells. Furthermore, the cause of low irr-CE of AFLMBs can also be determined at different states of the batteries through the proposed protocol. Meanwhile, we also observed dendritic Li induced ISC and visualize the formation of dead Li in a Li/Cu cell using in situ optical microscopy (OM) and transmission X-ray microscopy (TXM), and proposed the mechanism of Li nucleation and deposition/dissolution on Cu. This work provides an overall understanding and quantification to the irr-CEs from the full spectrum of different cell configurations such as first extra SEI, dead Li and subsequent SEI, cross-talk effects, first cycle intrinsic irreversible capacity of the cathode, and subsequent oxidative electrolyte decomposition. The proposed protocol could serve as a platform from an overall perspective to evaluate the performance of LMBs and AFLMBs and can be widely applied to various systems for the development of next-generation high-energy batteries.
In this section, the four types of cell configuration as an integrated protocol assembled by Li/Li symmetric cell, Li/Cu cell, cathode/Li cell, and cathode/Cu anode-free cell was applied to comprehensively evaluate the performance of LMBs/AFLMBs and unravel the unseen messages concealed in the individual candidates. Figure 2 shows the charge/discharge profiles of all the cell configuration used in the protocol. Figure 3 shows the schematics of each cell configuration at its fully charged and discharged state with the scheme of the proposed protocol from both irr-CE and capacity perspective. By applying the integrated protocol, one can decrypt different information from each cell set-ups and dissect the origins of irr-CE and capacity lost within LMB/AFLMB quantitatively.
The cathode/Cu cell, which is also called AFLMB as displayed in Fig. 2d, can be recognized as a full cell with the A/C ratio \(\cong\)1 since the active Li is purely from the cathode. The two half-reactions taking place in the AFLMB are comparable to those in cathode/Li and Li/Cu cells, namely Li deposition/dissolution on Cu and cathode oxidation/reduction, respectively. When the anode-free cell is fully charged, Li+ is de-intercalated from NMC and plated onto the Cu along with the formation of dendritic or mossy Li (Fig. 3c). In reverse, Li+ is stripped from the anode with some dead Li left on Cu and intercalated back into NMC (Fig. 3f). Therefore, the irreversible capacity and CE of AFLMB are significantly relative to that of Li/Cu and cathode/Li cells, and by integrating the information of Li/Cu and cathode/Li cells, it is possible to dissect the proportion of irreversible capacity and CE in the anode-free cell at its different A/C ratio states generated from different origins as shown in Fig. 3g and will be discussed in the following paragraphs. Nevertheless, it should be noted that apart from the sources of irr-CEs and capacity loss in Li/Cu and cathode/Li cells would affect the evaluation of AFLMB; cross-talk effects would also account for the addition irr-CE upon the cycling of AFLMB. During the cycling of AFLMB, cross-talk effects could take place, namely the crossover of transition metal ions from the cathode materials to anode, leading to greatly altered Li plating/stripping chemistry as well as the SEI formation mechanism43,44. In other words, more complicated side reactions and higher irr-CE of the Li-plating/stripping processes than those in Li/Cu cell may occur. Therefore, when dissecting the irr-CEs of AFLMB, cross-talk effects should also be considered. The detailed step-by-steps flowchart showing the procedures from identifying the irr-CEs in both Li/Cu and cathode/Li cells and transferring those into AFLMB is provided in the Supplementary information (Supplementary Fig. 3). 2ff7e9595c
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