ArticleNature communications2017
Intercalation events visualized in single microcrystals of graphite.
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- Strain Engineering of Twisted Bilayer Graphene: The Rise of Strain-Twistronics.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2025Review
- Operando spectral imaging of the lithium ion battery's solid-electrolyte interphase.Science advances · 2023Article
- Emerging field of few-layered intercalated 2D materials.Nanoscale advances · 2021Review
- Irreversibility at macromolecular scales in the flake graphite of the lithium-ion battery anode.Journal of power sources · 2019Article
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- Erratum issued
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Abstract
The electrochemical intercalation of layered materials, particularly graphite, is fundamental to the operation of rechargeable energy-storage devices such as the lithium-ion battery and the carbon-enhanced lead-acid battery. Intercalation is thought to proceed in discrete stages, where each stage represents a specific structure and stoichiometry of the intercalant relative to the host. However, the three-dimensional structures of the stages between unintercalated and fully intercalated are not known, and the dynamics of the transitions between stages are not understood. Using optical and scanning transmission electron microscopy, we video the intercalation of single microcrystals of graphite in concentrated sulfuric acid. Here we find that intercalation charge transfer proceeds through highly variable current pulses that, although directly associated with structural changes, do not match the expectations of the classical theories. Evidently random nanoscopic defects dominate the dynamics of intercalation.
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