Today’s growing economy requires innovative, new solutions that provide both better battery performance and cleaner energy solutions. With Protochips’ machine-vision powered suite of in-situ TEM tools you can utilize the electron microscope as a real-time laboratory to image and measure the underlying mechanisms that control the performance and behavior of energy materials on the nanoscale.
Fusion AX: Study high temperature heating, electrical and electrothermal in vacuum
Visualize the nanoscale processes that control solid-state battery material performance. Observe ion transfer reactions, growth kinetics, capacity degradation mechanisms and more without compromising resolution
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Poseidon AX: Liquid, electrochemical and liquid heating in situ studies
Observe charge-discharge reactions in real time, test how different electrolytes suppress dendrite formation and study the nanoscale mechanisms that control capacity fading. These are just some of the in-situ TEM studies made possible with liquid-EM.
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What have our users done in the field? Read our summaries here!
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Batteries One Pager
Download the one pager on how Poseidon AX can be used to study batteries using liquid phase electron microscopy.
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Radiolysis & Liquid-EM
In this application note, written by Protochips, we summarize how in situ electron microscopy using liquid phase is challenged by radiolysis side effects and how to minimize these effects.
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Using Protochips AXON Software for Tracking Electron Flux and Cumulative Dose
In this paper, we take a look at how AXON Dose tracks the electron flux and cumulative dose, and why this might be useful for all experiments.
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In Situ Lithium Dendrite Deposition
In this summarized paper, L. Mehdi and N. Browning at the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research at Pacific Northwest National Lab in Richland used the Poseidon system to observe the charging and discharging process of lithium-ion batteries.
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Lithiation and Delithiation in Batteries
In this summarized paper, Dr. David Muller’s research team at Cornell University used the Poseidon system in his FEI Titan electron microscope to observe the charging and discharging process of a Li-ion battery.
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Dynamic Imaging and Elemental Analysis of Nanostructures in Liquid
In this paper, written by Protochips, nanometer resolution elemental mapping of nanostructures in solution was demonstrated using the Poseidon system.
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EDS and EELS analysis in the TEM using the Poseidon Liquid Cell System
This paper, written by Protochips, summarizes different publications on how to best do EELS and EDS in liquid environments.
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In Situ EELS and EFTEM Analysis in the Liquid Cell
In this paper, researchers in Muller’s group showed how to perform EELS during in situ electron microscopy using a Poseidon system.
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Atomic Resolution Imaging at High Temperatures in the TEAM 0.5
Read how the TEAM 0.5 TEM at the National Center for Electron Microscopy (NCEM) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) can be used to gain atomic resolution images using a Fusion system.
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Thermal Stability Study of LAST Thermoelectric Material in the SEM
In this application note written by Protochips, the capability of the Fusion holder was tested for the thermal and electrical properties of thermoelectric materials.
Videos
Watch dynamic behavior of real samples in situ.
Read more about the observation of charging and discharging of lithium batteries via in situ TEM by Mehdi et al. here: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b00175
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#FindYourBreakthrough | FLASH TALKS: EP #1
Reaction Dynamics of Calcium-ion Battery Electrolytes
Explored by In Situ Electrochemical TEM
Presented by: Professor Alexander Robertson from University of Oxford. Read the full paper here: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsenergylett.0c01153?ref=pdf
#FindYourBreakthrough | FLASH TALKS: EP #10
Fabrication of micro-batteries for operando TEM electrochemistry using aerosol-jet printing
Presented by: Jędrzej Morzy from the University of Cambridge.
Read the full publication here:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/admi.202200530
#FindYourBreakthrough | FLASH TALKS: EP #12
Operando liquid cell electron microscopy of discharge and charge kinetics in lithium-oxygen batteries
Presented by: Dr. Yifei Yuan from Wenzhou University. Read the full publication here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2211285518302775?via%3Dihub
Operando Electrochemical Liquid-Cell STEM Observation of Phenomena at the Solid-Liquid Interface in Lithium- Ion Batteries
In this flash talk, Walid will share data on their recently published paper, regarding the solid electrolyte interphase (SEI). The SEI is a key component of a lithium-ion battery forming during the first few dischage/charge cycles at the interface between the anode and the electrolyte.
Presented by: Dr. Walid Dachraoui from Empa – Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology. Read the full publication here:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.3c06879
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Exploiting Liquid Cell Transmission Electron Microscopy to Investigate Phenomena at the Anode/Electrolyte Interface in Li-ion Batteries
In this flash talk, Walid will share data on their recently published paper, the formation of lithium metal dendrates in nanobatteries.
Presented by: Dr. Walid Dachraoui from Empa – Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology. Read the full publication here:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221128552400836X
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