{"id":226480,"date":"2025-12-04T01:32:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T07:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/x-ray-imaging-reveals-how-silicon-anodes-maintain-contact-in-all-solid-state-batteries"},"modified":"2025-12-04T01:32:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T07:32:26","slug":"x-ray-imaging-reveals-how-silicon-anodes-maintain-contact-in-all-solid-state-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/x-ray-imaging-reveals-how-silicon-anodes-maintain-contact-in-all-solid-state-batteries","title":{"rendered":"X-ray imaging reveals how silicon anodes maintain contact in all-solid-state batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/x-ray-imaging-reveals-how-silicon-anodes-maintain-contact-in-all-solid-state-batteries.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All-solid-state batteries (ASSBs) using silicon (Si) anodes are among the most promising candidates for high-energy and long-lasting power sources, particularly for electric vehicles. Si can store more lithium than conventional graphite, but its volume expands by roughly 410% during charging. This swelling generates mechanical stress that cracks particles and weakens their contact with the solid electrolyte, disrupting the flow of ions and reducing efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>To address this, a research group led by Professor Yuki Orikasa from the College of Life Sciences, Ritsumeikan University, along with Ms. Mao Matsumoto, a graduate student at the Graduate School of Life Sciences, Ritsumeikan University (at the time), and Dr. Akihisa Takeuchi from the Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, used <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2022-11-tomography-high-potential-copper-sulfide.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\" target=\"_blank\">operando synchrotron<\/a> X-ray tomography with nanometer resolution to observe what happens inside these batteries as they charge and discharge in real time.<\/p>\n<p>Their paper is published in <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acsnano.5c11403\" target=\"_blank\"><i>ACS Nano<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All-solid-state batteries (ASSBs) using silicon (Si) anodes are among the most promising candidates for high-energy and long-lasting power sources, particularly for electric vehicles. Si can store more lithium than conventional graphite, but its volume expands by roughly 410% during charging. This swelling generates mechanical stress that cracks particles and weakens their contact with the solid [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226480","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}