Beattie, S: Electrodeposited Negative Electrodes For Lithium

From iPods to hybrid electric cars, energy storage technology is an integral part of our everyday lives. Despite its importance, minimal advances have been made over the last 100 years. The most significant being the the development of the Li-ion battery. This books discussed the search for new types of Li-ion battery electrodes using combinatorial electrodeposition. Combinatorial electrodeposition enables researchers to investigate a wide range of alloys in a single experiment. Tens to hundreds of unique electrode compositions can be deposited in a single experiment, quickly and inexpensively. This work looks at three binary systems: Cu-Sn, Cu-Zn and Sn-Zn, and one ternary systems: Cu-Sn-Zn system. The phenomenon of Anomalous High Voltage Irreversible Capacity (AHVIC) in tin electrodes will also be explored. Combinatorial electrodeposition embodies and even extends the advantages of combinatorial material science: faster, cheaper, better, simpler and scalable. Ingenuity replaces robots and million dollar machines with water guns and buckets.