Print Email Facebook Twitter Making Better Batteries Title Making Better Batteries: Following Electrochemistry at the Nano Scale with Electron Microscopy Author Basak, S. (TU Delft QN/Zandbergen Lab) Contributor Zandbergen, H.W. (promotor) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Date 2017-04-26 Abstract With the focus in automobile industry to switch from petroleum-based vehicles to all electric vehicles, the increasing demand on harvesting energy from renewable sources for a safer and greener future and the ever-increasing demand of the portable electronics systems, the need for better batteries is eminent. The ultimate aim of battery research is to develop a low cost, light and small battery that can deliver high-capacity and/or high power. Lithium and sodium batteries are the frontrunners in achieving this ultimate battery. A macro battery is composed of thousands of millions of nanoparticles. Thus, to prepare a better battery we must determine the respective effects of electrode nanoparticle size, shape, structure, grain–grain boundary, defects and doping on the battery performance. To do so electrode nanoparticles need to be probed at the nano-scale to find out the correlation between their morphology, structure and chemical properties and their evolution due to the battery charging-discharging with battery performance. In this thesis we have utilized the unique capability of electron microscope to resolve the microstructural and chemical information at the (sub)nanometer scale to probe the electrode nanoparticles for making better batteries. Subject Li-ion batteryLi-O2 batteryelectrochemistrytransmission electron microscopyIn-situMEMS To reference this document use: https://doi.org/10.4233/uuid:66553334-94e2-4b82-8a94-8286cc72cf09 ISBN 978-90-8593-293-2 Embargo date 2019-10-02 Bibliographical note Casimir PhD series, Delft-Leiden 2017-09 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type doctoral thesis Rights © 2017 S. Basak Files PDF PhD_Thesis_Basak.pdf 34.58 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:66553334-94e2-4b82-8a94-8286cc72cf09/datastream/OBJ/view