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How to Carry Out Particle Analysis with Benchtop SEM

Benchtop SEM is used in industry and academia to characterize nanosized particles’ morphological, topographical, and chemical characteristics.

How Benchtop SEM can Benefit Energy Storage Applications

Benchtop SEM is a key analytical tool in investigating materials' batteries, fuel cells, supercapacitors, electrolyzers and heterogeneous catalysts.

Elemental Analysis with Electron Microscopes

Electron Microscopy Excels at Elemental Analysis

Discover how SEM and TEM microscopes are analytical tools that use Energy Dispersive X-ray detectors (EDS or EDX) and SXES for elemental analysis down to Lithium.

NMR Analysis of Lithium Ion Batteries

The search for new battery materials, alongside the drive to improve performance, and lower the cost of existing and new batteries, comes with its challenges.

Designing Better Batteries through Innovative Microscopy Characterization and Analysis

Learn more about JEOL's air-isolated workflow, pristine sample preparation of sensitive samples, and high-resolution imaging and analysis solutions.

Achieving Pristine Cross Sections of Battery Samples for SEM

Achieving Pristine Cross Sections of Battery Samples for Scanning Electron Microscopy

JEOL’s Cooling Cross Section Polisher for Lithium Ion Batteries uses broad ion beam milling to prepare artifact-free cross-sections for SEM.

Fig. 1. EDS map of LiB cathode at 1.2kV, 6nA, 10kX. The map shows the distribution of C, F, Co, and O. Taken with JEOL FESEM.

Designing Better Batteries Through Innovative Microscopy Characterization

Lithium-ion batteries were commercially introduced in 1991, presenting new analytical challenges in the quest to improve the quality, safety, and lifespan of this fastest-growing battery chemistry. The basic structure of Lithium-ion batteries (LIB) contains as many as 10 different thin films that are synthesized to form at least that many solid−solid interfaces. These interfaces consist of thin layers of cathode material, insulating barriers, anode materials, metal current collectors, and the electrolyte. These various components are in the form of powders, sheets, and fluids and require an assessment before and after assembly and after repeated charge/discharge operations.