Applications of XPS in the characterization of Battery materials

Shutthanandan, Vaithiyalingam; Nandasiri, Manjula; Zheng, Jianming; Engelhard, Mark H.; Xu, Wu; Thevuthasan, Suntharampillai; Murugesan, Vijayakumar

doi:10.1016/j.elspec.2018.05.005

Title: Applications of XPS in the characterization of Battery materials

Journal Article · Sat May 26 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.elspec.2018.05.005· OSTI ID:1441210

Shutthanandan, Vaithiyalingam ^[1]; Nandasiri, Manjula ^[1]; Zheng, Jianming ^[1]; Engelhard, Mark H. ^[1]; Xu, Wu ^[1]; Thevuthasan, Suntharampillai ^[1]; Murugesan, Vijayakumar ^[1]

Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)

In this study, technological development requires reliable power sources where energy storage devices are emerging as a critical component. Wide range of energy storage devices, Redox-flow batteries (RFB), Lithium ion based batteries (LIB), and Lithium-sulfur (LSB) batteries are being developed for various applications ranging from grid-scale level storage to mobile electronics. Material complexities associated with these energy storage devices with unique electrochemistry are formidable challenge which needs to be address for transformative progress in this field. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) - a powerful surface analysis tool - has been widely used to study these energy storage materials because of its ability to identify, quantify and image the chemical distribution of redox active species. However, accessing the deeply buried solid-electrolyte interfaces (which dictates the performance of energy storage devices) has been a challenge in XPS usage. Herein we report our recent efforts to utilize the XPS to gain deep insight about these interfaces under realistic conditions with varying electrochemistry involving RFB, LIB and LSB.

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Research Organization:: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-76RL01830

OSTI ID:: 1441210

Report Number(s):: PNNL-SA-134570; PII: S0368204817302505

Journal Information:: Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena, Vol. 231; ISSN 0368-2048

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Country of Publication:: United States

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