Morphological Evolution of Electrochemically Plated/Stripped Lithium Microstructures Investigated by Synchrotron X-ray Phase Contrast Tomography

ACS Nano

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 7990-7997

  Sun, Fu ^a,c   Zielke, Lukas ^b   Markötter, Henning ^a,c   Hilger, André ^a,c   Zhou, Dong ^a,c   Moroni, Riko ^b   Zengerle, Roland ^b   Thiele, Simon ^b   Banhart, John ^a,c   Manke, Ingo ^c  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

lithium microstructures; lithium strip plate; lithium ion battery; morphological evolution; separator; silicon

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRODES; LITHIUM; LITHIUM ALLOYS; LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES; MICROSTRUCTURE; REDOX REACTIONS; SEPARATORS; SILICON; TOMOGRAPHY;

3D CHARACTERIZATION; BATTERY TECHNOLOGY; EVOLUTION MECHANISM; IN-LINE PHASE CONTRAST; MORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; SPECIFIC CAPACITIES; SYNCHROTRON X RAYS; X-RAY TOMOGRAPHY;

MICROSTRUCTURAL EVOLUTION;

EID: 84983427517     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.6b03939     Document Type: Article

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