Effect of battery electrode manufacturing heterogeneity on transport properties

Ph.D. student Chance Norris published his first first-author paper in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces! In this work, we study the heterogeneity of commercially manufactured graphite electrodes for lithium-ion batteries using x-ray computed tomography and computational simulation. This heterogeneity spans multiple length scales, from the particle shape/morphology to that spanning multiple images samples. We show that heterogeneity at all scales influences the eventual transport properties of the electrode. DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c19694