Plasma FIB Spin Milling Accelerates Battery Research

The technology for energy storage systems is changing rapidly. In the past decade, the rapid growth of consumer electronics and electric vehicles market leads Li-ion batteries to attract significant attention. Currently two important industries, the energy and automobile industries, are involved in intensive research in this area where the most research takes place into: (a) solid state batteries [1], (b) lithium-ion batteries [2] and (c) sodium-ion batteries As the energy revolution gathers pace, batteries will be needed for energy storage in order to equalize the fluctuating power production of photovoltaic solar systems or wind turbines. The trend for electromobility places a lot of pressure to accelerate battery research.