Minimally invasive insertion of reference electrodes into commercial lithium-ion pouch cells
Abstract
Two procedures to introduce a lithium metal reference electrode into commercially manufactured lithium-ion pouch cells (Kokam SLPB 533459H4) are described and compared. By introducing a stable reference potential, the individual behavior of the positive and negative electrodes can be studied in operando under normal cycling. Unmodified cells and half-cells made from harvested electrode material were cycled under identical conditions to the modified cells to compare capacity degradation during cycling and thus validate each modification procedure for degradation testing. A configuration that did not affect the performance of the cell over 20 cycles was successfully developed.
Citation
McTurk , E , Birkl , C R , Roberts , M R , Howey , D A & Bruce, FRS , P 2015 , ' Minimally invasive insertion of reference electrodes into commercial lithium-ion pouch cells ' , ECS Electrochemistry Letters , vol. 4 , no. 12 , pp. A145-A147 . https://doi.org/10.1149/2.0081512eel
Publication
ECS Electrochemistry Letters
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
2162-8726Type
Journal article
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© The Authors 2015. Published by ECS. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (CC BY, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse of the work in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support of EPSRC UK and Jaguar Land Rover Ltd for this work.Collections
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