Nobody: Me: let’s see how you avoid typos if god gave you thumbs like this – at Manhattan, NY

So what's next? Well, this research dovetails beautifully with what we've been doing in DOE's ESRA (which funded some of us working on this) and sets up a whole series of questions we look forward to digging into. Stay tuned.

It's scary when bedrock is busted. Many nearest neighbors of the same charge in bulk and bulk-ish conditions call into question a fundamental tenet of my understanding. But rest assured that thermodynamics predicts these states; these are not guesses based on motivated reasoning.

The team brought receipts. Quantum chemistry indicates the possibility. MLIP shows it applies to a range of commercially relevant systems. And a smoking-gun NMR shows these clusters exist in your cell phone battery. And me, scratching my head and saying "whoa."

When Rich suggested Li+ forms effective clusters of (e.g., 3-ish Li+ as nearest neighbors), my brain melted a bit. Electroneutrality is violated, and we're not even at a double layer? Reader, I was skeptical. Sure, quantum fluctuations are wild, but are they relevant?

Honored to be part of this team and proud of the work here. I've been thinking about batteries for ~25 years, and I've idealized electrolyte behavior for too long.

ping.

my TL here is a shantytown. woof.

Apropos of nothing

RIP Ozzy. I’m bracing for 72 straight hours of crazy train on NPR.

'“Even rare vaccination-related harms, both known and unknown, now have a higher chance of outweighing potential benefits in non-high-risk populations,” he wrote in the documents overriding the staff members on the Novavax shot' nytimes.com/2025/07/02/healt… Where's the data on this?

What's it going to cost to keep WNYC going?

This is kayfabe