A team of scientists from the United States, Canada and Germany are tackling one of the largest challenges of our generation—reliable energy storage.
The international group of experts, led by researchers from Texas A&M University, have combined powerful imaging techniques and large data sets to better understand why lithium-ion batteries fail and how they can be improved.
Their innovative approach has brought the team one step closer to solving this complex problem.
"One technical gap that exists today is that we don't really understand fully what's happening at the nanoscale and that's where we've worked closely with a Canadian Light Source to leverage a number of different imaging techniques to investigate further," says David Santos, a Texas A&M chemistry Ph.D. graduate and former member of Texas A&M chemist Sarbajit Banerjee's research group.
The team was able to visualize the flaws and map defects that occur within the batteries using the SM beamline at the Canadian Light Source (CLS)—located at the University of Saskatchewan (UofS). Their findings were recently published in Patterns.
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