Nika Durham and Anya Breitenbach / NREL Every day, lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries are used safely in millions of cell phones, laptops, and electric-drive vehicles (EVs). At the same time, Li-ion batteries have a tendency to overheat in very rare occasions, which has led to electronics product recalls and the grounding of Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner airplane…
One battery mystery solved: Atomic-resolution microscopy answers longstanding questions about lithium-rich cathode material
Editor’s note: This article should be of interest to the wind and power-storage industries because Berkeley Lab scientists have unraveled structural ambiguities in lithium-rich transition metal oxides. Better batteries benefit the entire utility industry. Using complementary microscopy and spectroscopy techniques, researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) say they have solved the structure of…