A state-of-the-art review of experimental and computational studies of granular materials: properties, advances, challenges, and future directions

P Tahmasebi - Progress in Materials Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Modeling of heterogeneous materials and media is a problem of fundamental importance to
a wide class of phenomena and systems, ranging from condensed matter physics, soft …

Guiding the design of heterogeneous electrode microstructures for Li‐ion batteries: microscopic imaging, predictive modeling, and machine learning

H Xu, J Zhu, DP Finegan, H Zhao, X Lu… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Electrochemical and mechanical properties of lithium‐ion battery materials are heavily
dependent on their 3D microstructure characteristics. A quantitative understanding of the …

The electrode tortuosity factor: why the conventional tortuosity factor is not well suited for quantifying transport in porous Li-ion battery electrodes and what to use …

TT Nguyen, A Demortière, B Fleutot… - npj Computational …, 2020 - nature.com
The tortuosity factor of porous battery electrodes is an important parameter used to correlate
electrode microstructure with performance through numerical modeling. Therefore, having …

[HTML][HTML] Large volume serial section tomography by Xe Plasma FIB dual beam microscopy

TL Burnett, R Kelley, B Winiarski, L Contreras, M Daly… - Ultramicroscopy, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Ga+ Focused Ion Beam-Scanning Electron Microscopes (FIB-SEM) have
revolutionised the level of microstructural information that can be recovered in 3D by block …

X-ray tomography for lithium ion battery research: a practical guide

P Pietsch, V Wood - Annual Review of Materials Research, 2017 - annualreviews.org
X-ray tomography has emerged as a powerful technique for studying lithium ion batteries,
allowing nondestructive and often quantitative imaging of these complex systems, which …

Pores for thought: generative adversarial networks for stochastic reconstruction of 3D multi-phase electrode microstructures with periodic boundaries

A Gayon-Lombardo, L Mosser, NP Brandon… - npj Computational …, 2020 - nature.com
The generation of multiphase porous electrode microstructures is a critical step in the
optimisation of electrochemical energy storage devices. This work implements a deep …

[HTML][HTML] Simulated impedance of diffusion in porous media

SJ Cooper, A Bertei, DP Finegan, NP Brandon - Electrochimica Acta, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper describes the use of a frequency domain, finite-difference scheme to simulate the
impedance spectra of diffusion in porous microstructures. Both open and closed systems are …

3D detection of lithiation and lithium plating in graphite anodes during fast charging

AS Ho, DY Parkinson, DP Finegan, SE Trask… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
A barrier to the widespread adoption of electric vehicles is enabling fast charging lithium-ion
batteries. At normal charging rates, lithium ions intercalate into the graphite electrode. At …

Secondary-phase stochastics in lithium-ion battery electrodes

AN Mistry, K Smith, PP Mukherjee - ACS applied materials & …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Lithium-ion battery electrodes exhibit complex interplay among multiple electrochemically
coupled transport processes, which rely on the underlying functionality and relative …

Emerging X-ray imaging technologies for energy materials

C Cao, MF Toney, TK Sham, R Harder, PR Shearing… - Materials Today, 2020 - Elsevier
With the growing need for sustainable energy technologies, advanced characterization
methods become more and more critical for optimizing energy materials and understanding …