Degradation of Li/S battery electrodes on 3D current collectors studied using x-ray phase contrast tomography

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Zielke, L ^a   Barchasz, C ^b   Walu, S ^b,c   Alloin, F ^c   Lepretre J C ^c   Spettl, A ^d   Schmidt, V ^d   Hilger, A ^e   Manke, I ^e   Banhart, J ^e   Zengerle, R ^a,f   Thiele, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

^c LEPMI   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^e HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

^f HSG IMIT Institute für Mikro and Information Technology   (Germany)

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EID: 84930657631     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep10921     Document Type: Article

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