With the growing need for sustainable energy technologies, advanced characterization methods are becoming more and more critical for optimizing energy materials and understanding their operation mechanisms. In this review, we focus on the synchrotron-based X-ray imaging technologies and the associated applications in gaining fundamental insights into the physical/chemical properties and reaction mechanisms of energy materials. We will discuss a few major X-ray imaging technologies, including X-ray projection imaging, transmission X-ray microscopy, scanning transmission X-ray microscopy, tender and soft X-ray imaging, and coherent diffraction imaging. Researchers can choose from various X-ray imaging techniques with different working principles based on research goals and sample specifications. With the X-ray imaging techniques, we can obtain the morphology, phase, lattice and strain information of energy materials in both 2D and 3D in an intuitive way. In addition, with the high-penetration X-rays and the high-brilliance synchrotron sources, operando/in-situ experiments can be designed to track the qualitative and quantitative changes of the samples during operation. We expect this review can broaden readers’ view on X-ray imaging techniques and inspire new ideas and possibilities in energy materials research.
Cao, Chuntian, Toney, Michael F., Sham, Tsun-Kong, et al., "Emerging X-ray imaging technologies for energy materials," Materials Today 34, no. C (2019), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mattod.2019.08.011
@article{osti_1632654,
author = {Cao, Chuntian and Toney, Michael F. and Sham, Tsun-Kong and Harder, Ross and Shearing, Paul R. and Xiao, Xianghui and Wang, Jiajun},
title = {Emerging X-ray imaging technologies for energy materials},
annote = {With the growing need for sustainable energy technologies, advanced characterization methods are becoming more and more critical for optimizing energy materials and understanding their operation mechanisms. In this review, we focus on the synchrotron-based X-ray imaging technologies and the associated applications in gaining fundamental insights into the physical/chemical properties and reaction mechanisms of energy materials. We will discuss a few major X-ray imaging technologies, including X-ray projection imaging, transmission X-ray microscopy, scanning transmission X-ray microscopy, tender and soft X-ray imaging, and coherent diffraction imaging. Researchers can choose from various X-ray imaging techniques with different working principles based on research goals and sample specifications. With the X-ray imaging techniques, we can obtain the morphology, phase, lattice and strain information of energy materials in both 2D and 3D in an intuitive way. In addition, with the high-penetration X-rays and the high-brilliance synchrotron sources, operando/in-situ experiments can be designed to track the qualitative and quantitative changes of the samples during operation. We expect this review can broaden readers’ view on X-ray imaging techniques and inspire new ideas and possibilities in energy materials research.},
doi = {10.1016/j.mattod.2019.08.011},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1632654},
journal = {Materials Today},
issn = {ISSN 1369-7021},
number = {C},
volume = {34},
place = {United States},
publisher = {Elsevier},
year = {2019},
month = {09}}
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
HIT Research Institute (China); Harbin Inst. of Technology (China); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NNSFC); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
Contributing Organization:
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL); SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-76SF00515
OSTI ID:
1632654
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1804066 OSTI ID: 2498378 OSTI ID: 2500357
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