Lithium conducting materials for lithium-battery applications
4. Lithium conducting materials for lithium-battery applications
Neutron-scattering tools have several unique advantages over other analyses techniques for the studying lithium-conducting materials. The first is their sensitivity to lithium atoms in the crystal structure, and the second is their high penetration, allowing in-situ experiments with real commercial products instead of specially-designed electrochemical cells that only simulate battery processes. Recent commissioning activities on WOMBAT, the high-intensity (and speed) neutron-powder diffractometer, demonstrated that neutron-powder diffraction can provide information on the evolution of phase compositions and crystal structures of electrodes during charge/discharge cycling of a lithium battery.
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