Nature Communications (Mar 2023)

Nanoarchitecture factors of solid electrolyte interphase formation via 3D nano-rheology microscopy and surface force-distance spectroscopy

  • Yue Chen,
  • Wenkai Wu,
  • Sergio Gonzalez-Munoz,
  • Leonardo Forcieri,
  • Charlie Wells,
  • Samuel P. Jarvis,
  • Fangling Wu,
  • Robert Young,
  • Avishek Dey,
  • Mark Isaacs,
  • Mangayarkarasi Nagarathinam,
  • Robert G. Palgrave,
  • Nuria Tapia-Ruiz,
  • Oleg V. Kolosov

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37033-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Characterization of the solid electrolyte interphase formed on Li-ion battery electrodes presents significant experimental challenges. Here the authors use atomic force microscopy-based force-spectroscopy techniques to depict the initial interphase formation in two different electrolyte classes.