Neutrons peer into a solid-state battery (IMAGE)

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Neutrons peer into a solid-state battery

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In a solid-state battery, reactive lithium metal (blue) can coexist stably with a solid electrolyte called LiPON (yellow) when an interphase (green), about 70 atoms thick, forms.

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Jill Hemman/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy

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