Nature Communications (Feb 2020)

4D imaging of lithium-batteries using correlative neutron and X-ray tomography with a virtual unrolling technique

  • Ralf F. Ziesche,
  • Tobias Arlt,
  • Donal P. Finegan,
  • Thomas M. M. Heenan,
  • Alessandro Tengattini,
  • Daniel Baum,
  • Nikolay Kardjilov,
  • Henning Markötter,
  • Ingo Manke,
  • Winfried Kockelmann,
  • Dan J. L. Brett,
  • Paul R. Shearing

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13943-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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The combination of X-ray and neutron CT enables 4D studies, i.e. to explore the evolution of 3D structures with time. Here the authors apply this approach to a Li-ion primary cell, revealing elsewhere unseen trends in the spatial distribution of performance aided by a new ‘unrolling’ methodology.