JCNS Workshop 2024, Trends and Perspectives in Neutron Scattering: Functional Interfaces

Li-ion batteries are key players for the energy transition and help decrease greenhouse emission owing to their storage ability. But batteries are also very complex electrochemical systems that deserve an in depth characterisations to understand their limitation during cycling. Indeed, batteries are constantly under further development and employing new type of chemistry and materials that...

Since their introduction in 1991, lithium-ion batteries have become the popular choice for power sources in consumer electronics. Furthermore, as they have achieved a tremendous boost in their performance in the last decades, they are being increasingly employed in electrical vehicles and grid-scale energy storage systems as well. However, there is still room for improvement in terms of life...

Numerous applications of nanoporous materials require their pores to be filled with liquids. In spite of its huge technological importance, the conditions for the wetting of nanometer-sized pores and its phenomenology are still poorly understood. Here, we report on time-resolved synchrotron small-angle scattering experiments performed during capillary rise of water in carbon xerogels. These...