How X-Rays Can Make Better Batteries | Newswise: News for Journalists

Credit: Credit: Roy Kaltschmidt/Berkeley Lab; William Chueh's portrait courtesy of Stanford

From left: David Shapiro, senior staff scientist at Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source; William Chueh, associate professor of materials science and engineering at Stanford. Their pioneering X-ray techniques can help researchers understand how battery materials work in real time at the atomic scale.

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Credit: Credit: Berkeley Lab

Detailed X-ray measurements at the Advanced Light Source helped a research team co-led by Berkeley Lab, SLAC, and Stanford University reveal how oxygen seeps out of the billions of nanoparticles that make up lithium-ion battery electrodes.

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