Due to the widespread use of lithium-ion batteries in consumer devices, vehicles, and electrical storage facilities, researchers have been attempting to increase their strength, efficiency, and durability.
“This project, which relied heavily on some of the world’s most powerful microscopy technologies and advanced data science approaches, clears the way for the optimization of high-nickel-content lithium-ion batteries,” says Huolin Xin, UCI professor of physics and astronomy. “Knowing how these batteries operate at the atomic scale will help engineers develop LIBs with vastly improved power and life cycles.” Image Credit: Steve Zylius / UCI
Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and Brookhaven National Laboratory carefully examined high-nickel-content layered cathodes, which are thought to be promising parts in next-generation batteries, as described in…