Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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180825 | Electrochemistry Communications | 2010 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
The 3-dimensional microstructure of a porous electrode from a lithium-ion battery has been characterized for the first time. We use X-ray tomography to reconstruct a 43 × 348 × 478 μm sample volume with voxel dimensions of 480 nm, subsequent division of the reconstructed volumes into sub-volumes of different sizes allow us to determine microstructural parameters as a function of sub-division size. We show that the minimum size for a representative volume element is about 43 × 60 × 60 μm for volume-specific surface area, but as large as the full sample volume for porosity and tortuosity.
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Authors
P.R. Shearing, L.E. Howard, P.S. Jørgensen, N.P. Brandon, S.J. Harris,