Seeing Tin Oxide Anodes Grow (IMAGE)

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Seeing Tin Oxide Anodes Grow

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The inside story of a single nanowire battery. Time-lapse electron microscopy images showing the swelling, elongation, and spiraling of a SnO2 nanowire anode (blue color) during charging in a nanoscale lithium ion battery. This image relates to an article that appeared in the Dec. 10, 2010, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The study, by Dr. Jian Yu Huang at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M., and colleagues was titled, "In Situ Observation of the Electrochemical Lithiation of a Single SnO2 Nanowire Electrode."

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