Low tortuosity electrode design facilitates the development of high-performance LMO batteries

 https://techxplore.com/news/2022-12-tortuosity-electrode-high-performance-lmo-batteries.html

"ice-templating adopted to construct low-tortuosity LMO electrode based on CMC binder... straight channels through electrode in cross sectionlow-tortuosity structure enables LMO electrodes' fast lithium-ion diffusion and small concentration polarization, leading to uniform electrochemical reaction... fast lithium-ion transport kinetics and even mesoscopic-scale reactions of low-tortuosity LMO electrode alleviate irreversible phase transition and Mn dissolution... suppress cracks in LMO particles"

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