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Handling a cycled half-cell with inactive lithium on its surface
Chengcheng Fang, a materials science and engineering Ph.D. student at the University of California, San Diego, handles a cycled half-cell with inactive lithium on its surface as part of a study on why lithium metal batteries fail.
[Research supported by National Science Foundation grants ECCS 1542148 and CHE 1338173.]
Learn more about this research in the UC-San Diego news story Study identifies main culprit behind lithium metal battery failure. (Date image taken: unknown; date originally posted to NSF Multimedia Gallery: Dec. 20, 2019)
Credit: David Baillot/UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering
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