{"id":219845,"date":"2025-08-11T12:49:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T17:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/microscopic-imaging-reveals-how-electric-double-layers-form-at-battery-nucleation-sites"},"modified":"2025-08-11T12:49:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T17:49:29","slug":"microscopic-imaging-reveals-how-electric-double-layers-form-at-battery-nucleation-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/microscopic-imaging-reveals-how-electric-double-layers-form-at-battery-nucleation-sites","title":{"rendered":"Microscopic imaging reveals how electric double layers form at battery nucleation sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microscopic-imaging-reveals-how-electric-double-layers-form-at-battery-nucleation-sites.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Electrochemical cells\u2014or batteries, as a well-known example\u2014are complex technologies that combine chemistry, physics, materials science and electronics. More than power sources for everything from smartphones to electric vehicles, they remain a strong motivation for scientific inquiry that seeks to fully understand their structure and evolution at the molecular level.<\/p>\n<p>A team led by Yingjie Zhang, a professor of <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/materials+science\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">materials science<\/a> and engineering in The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has completed the first investigation into a widely acknowledged but often overlooked aspect of <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/electrochemical+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electrochemical cells<\/a>: the nonuniformity of the liquid at the solid-liquid interfaces in the cells.<\/p>\n<p>As the researchers <a href=\"https:\/\/pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.2421635122\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a> in the <i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/i>, microscopic imaging revealed that these interfacial structures, called electrical double layers (EDLs), tend to organize into specific configurations in response to chemical deposition on the <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/surface\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">surface<\/a> of the solid. The paper is titled \u201cNucleation at solid\u2013liquid interfaces is accompanied by the reconfiguration of electrical double layers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electrochemical cells\u2014or batteries, as a well-known example\u2014are complex technologies that combine chemistry, physics, materials science and electronics. More than power sources for everything from smartphones to electric vehicles, they remain a strong motivation for scientific inquiry that seeks to fully understand their structure and evolution at the molecular level. A team led by Yingjie Zhang, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1512,219,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-mobile-phones","category-physics","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}