能源化学(英文版)

能源化学(英文) ›› 2018, Vol. 27 ›› Issue (6): 1566-1583.DOI: 10.1016/j.jechem.2018.03.020

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The application of synchrotron X-ray techniques to the study of rechargeable batteries

Zhengliang Gonga, Yong Yanga,b   

  1. a College of Energy, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, Fujian, China;
    b State Key Laboratory for Physical Chemistry of Solid Surface, Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, Fujian, China
  • 收稿日期:2017-12-29 修回日期:2018-03-29 出版日期:2018-11-15 发布日期:2018-10-12
  • 通讯作者: Yong Yang
  • 作者简介:Zhengliang Gong received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Xiamen University in 2007. After a post-doctoral fellowship at National University of Singapore, in 2010, he has been working at Xiamen University. Currently he is an associate professor at Xiamen University;Yong Yang obtained his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Xiamen University in 1992. Except for a one-year (1997,1998) academic visit at Oxford University, he has been working in the State Key lab for Physical Chemistry of Solid Surface at Xiamen University since 1992. Now he is a distinguished professor in Chemistry and Director of Research Institute of Electrochemistry and Electrochemical Engineering over there.
  • 基金资助:

    We are grateful to the sponsors of the research in our group in the last decades:the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant nos. 21233004, 21303147 and 21473148, etc.), and the National Key Research and Development Program (Grant no. 2016YFB0901500).

The application of synchrotron X-ray techniques to the study of rechargeable batteries

Zhengliang Gonga, Yong Yanga,b   

  1. a College of Energy, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, Fujian, China;
    b State Key Laboratory for Physical Chemistry of Solid Surface, Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, Fujian, China
  • Received:2017-12-29 Revised:2018-03-29 Online:2018-11-15 Published:2018-10-12
  • Contact: Yong Yang
  • About author:Zhengliang Gong received his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Xiamen University in 2007. After a post-doctoral fellowship at National University of Singapore, in 2010, he has been working at Xiamen University. Currently he is an associate professor at Xiamen University;Yong Yang obtained his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Xiamen University in 1992. Except for a one-year (1997,1998) academic visit at Oxford University, he has been working in the State Key lab for Physical Chemistry of Solid Surface at Xiamen University since 1992. Now he is a distinguished professor in Chemistry and Director of Research Institute of Electrochemistry and Electrochemical Engineering over there.
  • Supported by:

    We are grateful to the sponsors of the research in our group in the last decades:the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant nos. 21233004, 21303147 and 21473148, etc.), and the National Key Research and Development Program (Grant no. 2016YFB0901500).

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摘要： The increased use of rechargeable batteries in portable electronic devices and the continuous development of novel applications (e.g. transportation and large scale energy storage), have raised a strong demand for high performance batteries with increased energy density, cycle and calendar life, safety and lower costs. This triggers significant efforts to reveal the fundamental mechanism determining battery performance with the use of advanced analytical techniques. However, the inherently complex characteristics of battery systems make the mechanism analysis sophisticated and difficult. Synchrotron radiation is an advanced collimated light source with high intensity and tunable energies. It has particular advantages in electronic structure and geometric structure (both the short-range and long-range structure) analysis of materials on different length and time scales. In the past decades, synchrotron X-ray techniques have been widely used to understand the fundamental mechanism and guide the technological optimization of batteries. In particular, in situ and operando techniques with high spatial and temporal resolution, enable the nondestructive, real time dynamic investigation of the electrochemical reaction, and lead to significant deep insights into the battery operation mechanism.
This review gives a brief introduction of the application of synchrotron X-ray techniques to the investigation of battery systems. The five widely implicated techniques, including X-ray diffraction (XRD), Pair Distribution Function (PDF), Hard and Soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) will be reviewed, with the emphasis on their in situ studies of battery systems during cycling.

关键词: Rechargeable battery, Synchrotron X-ray techniques, X-ray diffraction, X-ray absorption spectroscopy, Pair Distribution Function, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy

Abstract: The increased use of rechargeable batteries in portable electronic devices and the continuous development of novel applications (e.g. transportation and large scale energy storage), have raised a strong demand for high performance batteries with increased energy density, cycle and calendar life, safety and lower costs. This triggers significant efforts to reveal the fundamental mechanism determining battery performance with the use of advanced analytical techniques. However, the inherently complex characteristics of battery systems make the mechanism analysis sophisticated and difficult. Synchrotron radiation is an advanced collimated light source with high intensity and tunable energies. It has particular advantages in electronic structure and geometric structure (both the short-range and long-range structure) analysis of materials on different length and time scales. In the past decades, synchrotron X-ray techniques have been widely used to understand the fundamental mechanism and guide the technological optimization of batteries. In particular, in situ and operando techniques with high spatial and temporal resolution, enable the nondestructive, real time dynamic investigation of the electrochemical reaction, and lead to significant deep insights into the battery operation mechanism.
This review gives a brief introduction of the application of synchrotron X-ray techniques to the investigation of battery systems. The five widely implicated techniques, including X-ray diffraction (XRD), Pair Distribution Function (PDF), Hard and Soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) will be reviewed, with the emphasis on their in situ studies of battery systems during cycling.

Key words: Rechargeable battery, Synchrotron X-ray techniques, X-ray diffraction, X-ray absorption spectroscopy, Pair Distribution Function, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy