Over the last decades, we have witnessed tremendous progress on the development of aberration corrected transmission electron microscopy and scanning transmission electron microscopy.  As a result of this development, imaging of materials at atomic scale and spectroscopying at sub-nanometer scale become a routine practice.  The questions now come to how we extend the microscopy and spectroscopy methodologies to analyze materials at or near realistic/operating condition, typically such as real time observation of catalytic process, oxidation and reduction, bio-tissue in a liquid cell, defects generation and interaction under deformation conditions, mass transport  and microstructural evolution, charge and ion transport process in electrochemical cells.  In this presentation, I will focus on in-situ TEM techniques that developed for probing into the structural and chemical information of energy storage materials. In-situ high resolution imaging enables direct observation of structural evolution, phase transformation and their correlation with mass, charge and electron transport, which provide insights as how active materials failure with cyclic charging and discharging of a battery.  In perspective, challenges and possible direction for further development of the in-situ TEM imaging and spectroscopic methods for energy storage materials and other field will also be discussed.<br/> <br/>

In-situ TEM observation on the correlation of electrochemical properties with structural and chemical evolution of electrode materials in rechargeable batteries

256th National Meeting (2018)

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