Cover Feature: Surface Science and Electrochemical Model Studies on the Interaction of Graphite and Li‐Containing Ionic Liquids (ChemSusChem 10/2020)

The Cover Feature maps the ongoing endeavor to bridge the gap between well-defined but strongly simplified model studies and realistic but convoluted applied battery research, by stepwise increasing the complexity of the electrode materials and conditions. Here, this starts with structurally well-defined electrode surfaces such as highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG)-based substrates, which are characterized first by surface science methods, and next by electrochemical characterization methods. They are then compared to more realistic, binder-free graphite powder electrodes. More information can be found in the Full Paper by I. Weber et al. on page 2589 in Issue 10, 2020 (DOI: 10.1002/cssc.202000495).