Atomic force nanorheology for in situ exploration of nanoscale SEI layers in real-life rechargeable-battery electrodes
Mangayarkarasi Nagarathinam, Yue Chen, Oleg Kolosov · 2026
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Mangayarkarasi Nagarathinam and colleagues describe, in 2026, a finer way to probe the skin that forms inside rechargeable batteries. That skin, the solid electrolyte interphase, guards the negative pole yet is only tens of nanometres thick. Their scanning method drags a sharp tip through the layer and reads shear forces on the way. Each pass gives stiffness and energy loss along the tip path.
Unlike older tip tests, the reading does not hinge on exact tip width. The team used it on hard-carbon poles in sodium-ion cells and watched the skin form step by step. Real, rough battery parts can now be checked while they work. Safer, longer-lived cells may follow from such maps.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Mangayarkarasi Nagarathinam, Yue Chen, Oleg Kolosov |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 41457 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |