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Area of Science:

  • Materials Science
  • Electrochemistry
  • Nanotechnology

Background:

  • Fast charging lithium-ion batteries face challenges with active materials like cathodes and anodes.
  • Many materials exhibit structural instability under high currents or have low conductivity.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and demonstrate a technique for measuring local ionic transport properties in battery materials.
  • To correlate ionic transport with structural and compositional analysis at small length scales.
  • To understand the factors limiting fast ion transport in materials like LiFePO4.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized an atomic force microscope (AFM)-based technique to measure local ionic transport.
  • Performed correlated structural and compositional analysis on the same sample regions.
  • Employed density functional theory (DFT) calculations for comparison and validation.

Main Results:

  • Successfully measured local ionic transport properties in LiFePO4.
  • Identified Coulomb interactions as a significant factor in collective activation energy for ion transport.
  • Quantified large phase boundary hopping barriers and smaller single-ion bulk hopping barriers.

Conclusions:

  • The developed AFM technique enables spatially resolved measurement of ionic transport.
  • DFT calculations and experimental measurements show excellent agreement.
  • Understanding ion transport barriers is crucial for designing improved fast-charging battery materials.