122nd General Meeting of the KCS

Type Symposium
Area Recent Trends in Energy Harvesting/Storage Systems
Room No. Room 324A
Time THU 16:10-:
Code PHYS1-2
Subject Nanoscale spatiodynamics of lithium-ion battery primary particles
Authors Jongwoo Lim
Division of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Korea
Abstract Electrochemistry plays a significant role in energy storage and conversion technologies, such as lithium-ion batteries, fuel cells, and microbial fuel cells. Because of porous and heterogeneous nature of the electrodes in these applications, the conventional current-voltage measurement shows certain limit in untangling complexity of electrochemical reactions (charge transfer, mass transport, chemical reactions and so on). Here in my talk, I will introduce the in-situ electrochemical platform combined with synchrotron-based X-ray spectromicroscopy which visualizes nanoscale charge transfer and electrochemical reactions of individual battery particles.[1,2] Within individual particles, spatial variations in the electrochemical reaction rate control lithium ion insertion pathway. I will also discuss how this technique is expansively applied to other electrochemical systems in my group. [1] J. Lim et al “Origin and Hysteresis of Li Compositional Spatio-Dynamics within Battery Primary Particles”, Science, 2016, 353, 566-571 [2] Y. Li et al “Fluid-enhanced Surface Diffusion Controls Intraparticle Phase Transformations” Nature Materials, 2018 in press
E-mail jwlim@snu.ac.kr