In-Operando Neutron Imaging of Lithium Intercalation in Graphite and structure evolution in Lithium Sulphur Cells

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Li-ion batteries have been one of the transformative technologies of the 20th century and have enabled a revolution in consumer electronics in the 21th century and enable technological progress with applications like automotive power trains and mobile phones. Further, Li-Sulphur chemistry is a promising candidate for the post Li-ion era and provide a 10 times higher theoretical capacity but shows significant loss of capacity after the first cycles.In our research project, we will study the charging and discharging process of a common Graphite and a new Sulphur electrode by neutron imaging. For the first time, we will image the Li transport inside a battery due to the high absorption coefficient for neutrons. In this study, we will get a better understanding of structure evolution and capacity fade effects in the electrode which helps to improve the next generation of Li-ion batteries.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.RB1810618-2
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/101912934
Provenance
Creator Dr Dan Brett; Mr Matthew Kok; Dr Winfried Kockelmann; Dr Ralf Ziesche; Mr Chun Tan; Dr Paul Shearing
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2022
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Chemistry; Construction Engineering and Architecture; Engineering; Engineering Sciences; Natural Sciences; Physics
Temporal Coverage Begin 2019-03-24T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2019-07-03T14:11:09Z