Publications by authors named "Fengyu Shen"

Monitoring real-world battery degradation is crucial for the widespread application of batteries in different scenarios. However, acquiring quantitative degradation information in operating commercial cells is challenging due to the complex, embedded, and/or qualitative nature of most existing sensing techniques. This process is essentially limited by the type of signals used for detection.

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The mass adoption of electric vehicles is hindered by the inadequate extreme fast charging (XFC) performance (i.e., less than 15 min charging time to reach 80% state of charge) of commercial high-specific-energy (i.

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Revealing the local structure of solid electrolytes (SEs) with electron microscopy is critical for the fundamental understanding of the performance of solid-state batteries (SSBs). However, the intrinsic structural information in the SSB can be misleading if the sample's interactions with the electron beams are not fully understood. In this work, we systematically investigate the effect of electron beams on Al-doped lithium lanthanum zirconium oxide (LLZO) under different imaging conditions.

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Intrinsic material microstructure features, such as pores or void spaces, grains, and defects can affect local lithium-ion concentration profiles and transport properties in solid ion conductors. The formation of lithium-deficient or -excess regions can accelerate degradation phenomena, such as dendrite formation, lithium plating, and electrode/electrolyte delamination. This paper evaluates the effects pores or void spaces have on the tortuosity of a garnet-type LiLaZrO solid electrolyte.

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In this work, a novel Co/Sm-doped CeO (SDC)/Co trilayer of ∼6 μm is deposited by alternating electrodeposition and electrophoresis and oxidized to a CoO/SDC/CoO trilayer structure. This coating is unique and effective in the following aspects: (1) The area specific resistance of the coated interconnect is more stable and lower than that of the uncoated interconnect after thermal treatment at 800 °C for 400 h. (2) The CoO/SDC/CoO coating layer can effectively inhibit Cr diffusion and evaporation and significantly slow the oxidation rate of the interconnect.

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One-dimensional ZnO nanorods arrays were self-assembly grown on a ZnO thin film, and then CdS quantum dots were deposited on the ZnO nanorods arrays by a successive ionic layer adsorption and reaction process. Scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy results indicate that the CdS quantum dots can be uniformly deposited on the ZnO nanorods arrays and the thickness of the CdS shell can be controlled through varying the number of the adsorption and reaction cycle. For a typical sample prepared by the adsorption and reaction cycles of 10 times, the thickness of the CdS is about 4.

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Fabrication and characterization of a heterojunction structured by CdS quantum dots@ZnO nanowire-array panels were presented. Firstly, ZnO nanowire-array panels were prepared by using a chemical bath deposition approach where wurtzite ZnO nanowires with a diameter of about 100 nm and 3 microm in length grew perpendicularly to glass substrate. Secondly, CdS quantum dots were deposited onto the surface of the ZnO nanowire-arrays by using successive ion layer absorption and reaction method, and the CdS shell/ZnO core heterojunction were thus obtained.

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ZnO microspheres sensitized by CuInSe(2) and CuInS(2) nanoparticles, which were synthesized by a solvothermal method and have a size about 20 and 3.5 nm, respectively, were used to a photodegradation of rhodamine B under an irradiation of mercury lamp. Results show that the photocatalytic activities of the ZnO/CuInSe(2) and the ZnO/CuInS(2) are much higher than that of the ZnO microspheres because of a formation of the heterojunction in two systems.

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