In situ neutron powder diffraction using custom-made lithium-ion batteries

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 93, 2014, Pages

  Brant, William R ^a   Schmid, Siegbert ^a   Du, Guodong ^b   Brand, Helen E A ^c   Pang, Wei Kong ^b,d   Peterson, Vanessa K ^d   Guo, Zaiping ^b   Sharma, Neeraj ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN SYNCHROTRON   (Australia)

^d AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Battery performance; Crystallography; Electrochemical cells; Electrochemical cycling; In operando; Issue 93; Physics; Structure property relationships

Indexed keywords

EID: 84911432504     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/52284     Document Type: Article

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