Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

Charge distribution guided by grain crystallographic orientations in polycrystalline battery materials

  • Zhengrui Xu,
  • Zhisen Jiang,
  • Chunguang Kuai,
  • Rong Xu,
  • Changdong Qin,
  • Yan Zhang,
  • Muhammad Mominur Rahman,
  • Chenxi Wei,
  • Dennis Nordlund,
  • Cheng-Jun Sun,
  • Xianghui Xiao,
  • Xi-Wen Du,
  • Kejie Zhao,
  • Pengfei Yan,
  • Yijin Liu,
  • Feng Lin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13884-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The authors here report on the influence of grain orientation on the charge distribution in polycrystalline materials for batteries. The quantitative characterization provides mechanistic insight into the way the grain orientation can be engineered to mitigate the charge heterogeneity.