ELECTRODEPOSITED NEGATIVE ELECTRODES FOR LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES

From iPods to hybrid electric cars, energy storage technology is an integral part of our everyday lives. Despite its importance, minimal advances have been made over the last 100 years. The most significant being the the development of the Li-ion battery. This books discussed the search for new types of Li-ion battery electrodes using combinatorial electrodeposition. Combinatorial electrodeposition enables researchers to investigate a wide range of alloys in a single experiment. Tens to hundreds of unique electrode compositions can be deposited in a single experiment, quickly and inexpensively. This work looks at three binary systems: Cu-Sn, Cu-Zn and Sn-Zn, and one ternary systems: Cu-Sn-Zn system. The phenomenon of Anomalous High Voltage Irreversible Capacity (AHVIC) in tin electrodes will also be explored. Combinatorial electrodeposition embodies and even extends the advantages of combinatorial material science: faster, cheaper, better, simpler and scalable. Ingenuity replaces robots and million dollar machines with water guns and buckets.

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Dr. Shane Beattie works in the Chemistry department at the University of New Brunswick. He did a postdoc at the Laboratoire de Reactivite et Chimie des Solides in Amiens, France in 2007. He worked with Tekion Inc. between 2003 and 2005 and graduated with a PhD in Physics from Dalhousie University under the supervision of Prof. Jeff Dahn in 2003.