{"id":240736,"date":"2026-07-13T13:14:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T18:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/neutron-based-technique-reveals-uneven-lithium-flow-in-batteries"},"modified":"2026-07-13T13:14:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T18:14:33","slug":"neutron-based-technique-reveals-uneven-lithium-flow-in-batteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/neutron-based-technique-reveals-uneven-lithium-flow-in-batteries","title":{"rendered":"Neutron-based technique reveals uneven lithium flow in batteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neutron-based-technique-reveals-uneven-lithium-flow-in-batteries.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A neutron-based mapping technique has been used to track the movement of lithium ions in real time inside a functioning all-solid-state battery.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) in France discovered unexpected structural complexities, which could inform the design of safer, more efficient solid-state batteries.<\/p>\n<p>The operando neutron powder diffraction technique was used to peer inside the battery interface. Interestingly, the experiment revealed a chaotic structure within the electrode, showing that lithium doesn\u2019t flow through the battery nearly as smoothly as previously thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A neutron-based mapping technique has been used to track the movement of lithium ions in real time inside a functioning all-solid-state battery. Researchers at the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) in France discovered unexpected structural complexities, which could inform the design of safer, more efficient solid-state batteries. The operando neutron powder diffraction technique was used to peer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1965],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-mapping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240736","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}