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LiCoO2 electrodes contain three phases, or domains, each having specific‐intended functions: ion‐conducting pore space, lithium‐ion‐reacting active material, and electron conducting carbon‐binder domain (CBD). Transport processes take place in all domains on different characteristic length scales: from the micrometer scale in the active material grains through to the nanopores in the carbon‐binder phase. Consequently, more than one imaging approach must be utilized to obtain a hierarchical geometric representation of the electrode. An approach incorporating information from the micro‐ and nanoscale to calculate 3D transport‐relevant properties in a large‐reconstructed active domain is presented. Advantages of focused ion beam/scanning electron microscopy imaging and X‐ray tomography combined by a spatial stochastic model, validated with an artificially produced reference structure are used. This novel approach leads to significantly different transport relevant properties compared with previous tomographic approaches: nanoporosity of the CBD leads to up to 42% additional contact area between active material and pore space and increases ionic conduction by a factor of up to 3.6. The results show that nanoporosity within the CBD cannot be neglected.

Most cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries exhibit a low electronic conductivity. Hence, a significant amount of conductive graphitic additives are introduced during electrode production. The mechanical stability and electronic connection of the electrode is enhanced by a mixed phase formed by the carbon and binder materials. However, this mixed phase, the carbon binder domain (CBD), hinders the transport of lithium ions through the electrolyte pore network. Thus, reducing the performance at higher currents. In this work we combine microstructure resolved simulations with impedance measurements on symmetrical cells to identify the influence of the CBD distribution. Microstructures of NMC622 electrodes are obtained through synchrotron X-ray tomography. Resolving the CBD using tomography techniques is challenging. Therefore, three different CBD distributions are incorporated via a structure generator. We present results of microstructure resolved impedance spectroscopy and lithiation simulations, which reproduce the experimental results of impedance spectroscopy and galvanostatic lithiation measurements, thus, providing a link between the spatial CBD distribution, electrode impedance, and half-cell performance. The results demonstrate the significance of the CBD distribution and enable predictive simulations for battery design. The accumulation of CBD at contact points between particles is identified as the most likely configuration in the electrodes under consideration.

Neutrons are highly sensitive to magnetic fields owing to their magnetic moment, whereas their charge neutrality enables them to penetrate even massive samples. The combination of these properties with radiographic and tomographic imaging [1][2][3][4] enables a technique that is unique for investigations of macroscopic magnetic phenomena inside solid materials. Here, we introduce a new experimental method yielding twoand three-dimensional images that represent changes of the quantum-mechanical spin state of neutrons caused by magnetic fields in and around bulk objects. It opens up a way to the detection and imaging of previously inaccessible magnetic field distributions, hence closing the gap between high-resolution two-dimensional techniques for surface magnetism 5,6 and scattering techniques for the investigation of bulk magnetism 7-9 . The technique was used to investigate quantum effects inside a massive sample of lead (a type-I superconductor).The specific interaction of neutrons with matter enables neutron radiography to complement X-ray imaging methods for analysing materials 1 . Conventional radiography is a geometrical projection technique based on the attenuation of a beam by a sample along a given ray. Quantum mechanically, neutrons are described by de Broglie wave packets 10 whose spatial extent may be large enough to produce interference effects similar to those known from visible laser light or highly brilliant synchrotron X-rays. Measurements of the neutron wave packet's phase shift induced by the interaction with matter have a long and distinguished history [11][12][13][14] and were recently combined with neutron imaging approaches, where two-and three-dimensionally resolved spatial information about the quantum mechanical interactions of neutrons with matter was obtained 2,3,15 . In addition, neutrons, which from the particle-physicist's point of view are small massive particles with a confinement radius of about 0.7 fm, possess another outstanding property: a magnetic moment µ (µ = −9.66 × 10 −27 J T −1 ). The magnetic moment is antiparallel to the internal angular momentum of the neutron described by a spin S with the quantum number s = 1/2. Consequently, the high sensitivity of neutrons to magnetic interactions has extensively been and is still being exploited in numerous experiments to study fundamental magnetic properties and to understand basic phenomena in condensed matter 7-9 . Here, we present an experimental method that combines spin analysis with neutron imaging and yields a new contrast mechanism for neutron radiography that enables two-and three-dimensional investigations of magnetic fields in matter. This method is unique not only in that it provides spatial information about the interaction of the spin with magnetic fields but also in its ability to measure these fields within the bulk of materials, which is not possible by any other conventional technique.Our concept is based on the fact that any spin wavefunction corresponds to a definite spin direction and by using the Schrödin...