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Probing the depths of battery heterogeneity

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Three-dimensional optical imaging during battery operation reveals lithium heterogeneity at multiple length scales, challenging the look-at-one-particle approach.

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Fig. 1: Schematic comparison between the approximation of reducing a system to a single-particle representation (left) and the multi-particle heterogeneity observed by Pandya et al. (right).

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Kang, S.D., Chueh, W.C. Probing the depths of battery heterogeneity. Nat. Nanotechnol. 18, 1130 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-023-01440-0

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