The change to renewable energy as well as the use of Li ion batteries in vehicles and consumer electronics has created a large demand for cheap, reliable and energy dense storage systems. Development of new materials as well as optimizing existing battery architectures is vital to keep up with this demand. In most commercially available systems 50% of the battery’s volume …
Category: X-ray Diffraction
Through x-ray diffraction material structures can be probes. X-rays are scattered by the atoms outer electrons and since the have a wavelength in same order of magnitude as inter-atomic distances, in certain crystallographic directions positive interference occurs. Knowing the wavelength and the direction, the inter-atomic distance can be calculated. In electrode materials this inter-atomic distance might change with lithium concentration. Also different material treatment can change this inter atomic distances such as annealing, elastic stress or particle size.