Journal
JOULE
Volume 5, Issue 8, Pages 2195-2210Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.joule.2021.06.008
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- Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Vehicle Technologies Program, of the US Department of Energy [DEAC02-05CH11231]
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The study utilizes thermal waves for real-time probing of lithium concentration within battery electrodes, providing more spatial information compared to traditional tools, which offers a valuable sensing method for studying electrode degradation.
The development of battery sensing techniques is crucial for safe, reliable, and fast operation of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). There is a growing realization that the spatially averaged chemical information provided by existing battery diagnostic tools is insufficient for understanding degradation of LIBs. Here, we report the use of thermal waves for operando probing of the local lithium concentration as a function of depth inside battery electrodes. The dependence of the thermal conductivity of electrodes on lithiation is used for lithium detection for the first time. A proof-of-concept study of graphite anodes demonstrates that thermal-wave sensing provides spatial information of lithium concentration comparable with experimental results using synchrotron X-ray diffraction. Therefore, a valuable battery sensing technique based on thermal waves is developed for studying the lithium concentration and the degradation of electrodes during fast charge, which may lead to much cheaper and faster sensing techniques compared with synchrotron-based techniques.
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