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Silicon has attracted particular attention as a potential high capacity material for lithium based batteries. However, the application of Si-based electrodes remains challenging, in major part due to its significant irreversible energy loss during cycling. Here isothermal microcalorimetry (IMC) is demonstrated to be a precise and operando characterization method for tracking a battery’s thermal behaviour and deconvoluting the contributions from electrochemical polarization, entropy change, and parasitic reactions. Cyclic voltammetry (CV), electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), and x-ray powder diffraction (XRD) further elucidate the Si reactivity in conjunction with the IMC.
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Li, W., Vila, M.N., Takeuchi, E.S. et al. Elucidating the evolution of silicon anodes in lithium based batteries. MRS Advances 5, 2525–2534 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1557/adv.2020.312
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