With more than 600 publications each week, “breakthroughs” reported each month in high-impact journals, and new journals popping up each year, how can one effectively follow the literature?

To make things more difficult, a substantial fraction of the literatures are not straightforward to comprehend.

The early career scientists and engineers may be struggling with complicated jargon system that is already established, accepted, and taken for granted by the battery research community, or being puzzled by the many seemingly conflicting results from various, or even sometimes the same, sources.

In this context, the battery literature itself may have become a key hurdle to progress in battery research.

This talk will highlight a few recurring misconceptions and inaccuracies often encountered in battery research literature, so that students and junior researchers new to the field could circumvent these traps and better equipped to handle the inundation of battery research papers.