Researchers at ORNL have developed a new method for producing a key component of lithium-ion batteries. The result is a more affordable battery from a faster, less wasteful process that uses less toxic material.
A multimodal scanning probe microscopy (SPM) approach reveals fast ionically mediated electromechanical coupling in the van der Waals ferroelectric CuInP2S6 (CIPS) along with an enhanced and tunable conductivity at chemical phase b