Concavity-based local erosion and sphere-size-based local dilation applied to lithium-ion battery electrode microstructures for particle identification

Usseglio-Viretta, Francois L.E.; Gasper, Paul; Prakash, Nina; Popeil, Melissa; Smith, Kandler; Finegan, Donal P.

doi:10.1016/j.commatsci.2025.113758

Concavity-based local erosion and sphere-size-based local dilation applied to lithium-ion battery electrode microstructures for particle identification

Journal Article · Sun Feb 16 00:00:00 EST 2025 · Computational Materials Science

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.commatsci.2025.113758· OSTI ID:2538016

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National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

Performance metrics of lithium-ion batteries can be extracted from the analysis of electrode microstructures nanoscale imaging. The characterization workflow can involve a challenging particle identification, or instance segmentation, step. In this work, we propose a new identification method based on an original transformation: a sphere-size-based local dilation followed by a concavity-based local erosion, that is local morphology closing. The new transformation is much more efficient than the global morphology closing, with correct identification achieved with only 1.7 % dilation volume and 2.6 % erosion volume on a test geometry, compared to 39.2 % and more than 50 %, respectively, with its global counterpart. The new method has been then benchmarked versus other identification algorithms (watershed and pseudo coulomb repulsive field) on a real electrode microstructure with equal or better segmentation achieved.

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Research Organization:: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program; USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Office of Sustainable Transportation. Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC36-08GO28308

OSTI ID:: 2538016

Report Number(s):: NREL/JA--5700-89499; MainId:90278; UUID:f38fa4cd-489d-4e42-ad4c-98c49c11edb8; MainAdminId:76341

Journal Information:: Computational Materials Science, Journal Name: Computational Materials Science Vol. 251; ISSN 0927-0256

Publisher:: ElsevierCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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