Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

Spatial quantification of dynamic inter and intra particle crystallographic heterogeneities within lithium ion electrodes

  • Donal P. Finegan,
  • Antonis Vamvakeros,
  • Chun Tan,
  • Thomas M. M. Heenan,
  • Sohrab R. Daemi,
  • Natalie Seitzman,
  • Marco Di Michiel,
  • Simon Jacques,
  • Andrew M. Beale,
  • Dan J. L. Brett,
  • Paul R. Shearing,
  • Kandler Smith

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14467-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Dynamic chemical and structural heterogeneities within electrodes are known to lead to battery degradation and failure. Here, the authors show that X-ray diffraction computed tomography can be used to spatially quantify the dynamic crystallographic states of electrodes as they operate and degrade.