Distinct charge dynamics in battery electrodes revealed by in situ and operando soft X-ray spectroscopy

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Liu, Xiaosong ^a,b   Wang, Dongdong ^a   Liu, Gao ^a   Srinivasan, Venkat ^a   Liu, Zhi ^a,b   Hussain, Zahid ^a   Yang, Wanli ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF MICROSYSTEM AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM ION; MACROGOL;

CATION; ELECTRODE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; LITHIUM; OPTIMIZATION; PHASE TRANSITION; X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

ALUMINUM FOIL; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DYNAMICS; ELECTRIC BATTERY; ELECTRODE; OXIDATION; PARTICLE SIZE; ROENTGEN SPECTROSCOPY; SOLID STATE; TEMPERATURE; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84885462145     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3568     Document Type: Article

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