For more than 20 years, most of the technological achievements for the realization of
positive electrodes for practical rechargeable Li battery systems have been devoted to …

Abstract Development of high-performance rechargeable batteries is hinged on a clear
mechanistic understanding of the fundamental electrochemical processes. In operando …

Many battery electrodes contain ensembles of nanoparticles that phase-separate on (de)
intercalation. In such electrodes, the fraction of actively intercalating particles directly …

A theoretical investigation of the effects of elastic coherency strain on the thermodynamics,
kinetics, and morphology of intercalation in single LiFePO4 nanoparticles yields new …

A major challenge in the development of new battery materials is understanding their
fundamental mechanisms of operation and degradation. Their microscopically …

The intercalation pathway of lithium iron phosphate (LFP) in the positive electrode of a
lithium-ion battery was probed at the∼ 40 nm length scale using oxidation-state-sensitive X …

The impact of ultrahigh (dis) charge rates on the phase transition mechanism in LiFePO4 Li-
ion electrodes is revealed by in situ synchrotron diffraction. At high rates the solubility limits …

LiFePO4 is a promising phase‐separating battery electrode and a model system for studying
lithiation. The role of particle synthesis and the corresponding particle morphology on the …

Previous studies of the size dependent properties of LiFePO 4 have focused on the diffusion
rate or phase transformation pathways by bulk analysis techniques such as x-ray diffraction …

The expansion of batteries into electric vehicle and grid storage applications has driven the
development of new battery materials and chemistries, such as olivine phosphate cathodes …