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Directing battery chemistry using side-view operando optical microscopy

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This review highlights recent progress and perspectives on side-view operando optical microscopy (OM) on lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). Side-view operando imaging studies on LIBs offer new insights for understanding the dynamic feature of battery chemistry since the images or movies offer direct visualization of the most realistic conditions. Taking advantage of a fundamentally complete understanding, we have a chance to overcome the formidable challenges of the LIBs. For the realistic demonstration of each part of the battery components, OM has been used to understand direct electrochemical reactions identifying the fundamental failure mechanisms that help overcome the challenges of LIBs. Here, we provide a comprehensive review of our research work in the field of the application of OM for understanding the various challenging aspects of LIBs. Moreover, we highlight that the further utilization of the OM technique towards and beyond the LIBs could lead to the development of next-generation batteries.

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This work was supported by the 2022 Research Fund (1.220022.01) of UNIST and Individual Basic Science & Engineering Research Program (2019R1C1C1009324) through the National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT).

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Prof. Hyun-Wook Lee is an Associate Professor in the School of Energy and Chemical Engineering at UNIST, South Korea. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from KAIST, South Korea, in 2012. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University under supervision of Prof. Yi Cui. His research group at UNIST pursues innovations in lithium/sodiumion batteries, operando imaging observation, cryogenic transmission electron microscopy, Prussian Blue-type redox systems, and electrochemically thermal energy harvesting. His published works in this field have been cited more than 19,000 times, and he was selected as a Highly Cited Researcher in 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022 by Clarivate Analytics.

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Jayasubramaniyan, S., Lee, HW. Directing battery chemistry using side-view operando optical microscopy. Korean J. Chem. Eng. 40, 488–496 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11814-022-1321-y

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