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ArticleScience advances2025

Trapping and imaging dynamic battery nanointerfaces via electrified cryo-EM.

Chongzhen Wang, Jung Tae Kim, Xintong Yuan, Jin Koo Kim, Bo Liu, Min-Ho Kim, Dingyi Zhao, Matthew Mecklenburg, Yuzhang Li

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Chongzhen WangDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3209-3411
Jung Tae KimDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9852-0044
Xintong YuanDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2172-1099
Jin Koo KimDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9755-6958
Bo LiuDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.ORCID 0009-0006-1687-656X
Min-Ho KimDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3558-8073
Dingyi ZhaoDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
Matthew MecklenburgCalifornia NanoSystems Institute (CNSI), University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0581-4153
Yuzhang LiDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1502-7869

Funding

Electrified cryo-EM: a new tool to capture metastable neuron structures during an action potentialDP2NS142715 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI LI, YUZHANG · 2024 to 2024
$1.4M
NINDS NIH HHS DP2 NS142715
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The electrified interface between a liquid and a solid underpins diverse phenomena, from ion-transfer during battery operation to action potentials enabling biological communication. However, conventional tools are blind to the nanoscale dynamics of this metastable interface. Here, we leverage electrified cryo-electron microscopy (eCryo-EM), a technique that rapidly freezes and kinetically traps these dynamic, nonequilibrium states during battery operation for nanoscale characterization. Collective snapshots of the electrified interface at controlled time intervals quantifies early-stage growth kinetics of the solid electrolyte interphase (SEI), a passivation film that governs electron and ion transport. Unexpectedly, the diffusivity of charged species of the two SEI films with differing chemistry and performance are estimated to be within 10% of the other, indicated by the slope of their diffusion-limited SEI growth regimes. Instead, the slope of the reaction-limited SEI growth regimes differs by a factor of 3, suggesting that lowered reactivity of the high-performance electrolyte is largely responsible for its high coulombic efficiency.

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PMCPMC12164978

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