Nature Communications (Aug 2016)

Visualization of anisotropic-isotropic phase transformation dynamics in battery electrode particles

  • Jiajun Wang,
  • Yu-chen Karen Chen-Wiegart,
  • Christopher Eng,
  • Qun Shen,
  • Jun Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12372
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Spatiotemporal phase evolution during transformations impacts materials performance in many systems. Here the authors use lithium iron phosphate particles inside a custom-designed battery to characterize in three dimensions the two-phase configuration at various states of charge via X-ray tomography.