Non-Ambient Experiments for Energy Storage Materials

Abstract

This chapter focuses on non-ambient experiments, looking at what variable temperature, atmosphere and pressure experiments can tell us about energy storage materials. From tracking the progress of synthetic reactions, to looking at thermal expansion and phase transformations, high temperature experiments help to expand our understanding of structure-property relations while allowing for the use of different atmospheres to offer new routes for improved processing. This chapter also looks at how variable temperature diffraction experiments can be used to identify ionic diffusion pathways in crystalline materials, and how pressure-induced amorphization has opened a new pathway towards improved conductivity in Li4Ti5O12 spinel anodes.