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- From: 5916rahmank@vms.csd.mu.edu ( )
- Newsgroups: sci.materials
- Subject: Re: SEM of lithium?
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 15:33:55 GMT
- Organization: Department of EECE, Marquette University
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- References: <BznzK5.JFH@creare.com>
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- In article <BznzK5.JFH@creare.com>, kwg@creare.com (Kent Goeking) writes:
- >
- > I would like to hear if anyone has any experience in preparing moisture
- >sensitive samples for SEM examination. In particular I would like to
- >examine the interface between a piece of lithium and a polymer electrolyte
- >to understand the interface phenomena that is responsible for degredation
- >in lithium based batteries.
- >
- > Unfortunately, lithium reacts vigerously with water and the moisture
- >present in the air would destroy any interesting interface microstructures
- >before I got a chance to look at them. Is it possible to prepare the
- >sample in-situ? I mean while in the SEM vacuum chamber? Any ideas or
- >reference suggestions appreciated.
- >
- >Thanks,
- >
- >Kent Goeking
- >Creare Inc.
- >kwg@creare.com
- -----------------------------------------------------
-
- I donno how to prepare sample in such a situation, and curious
- to know. But to look at the interface, I think, SEM resolution
- may not be high enough. For interfacial studies you may have to
- resort to the TEM, the high resolution ones, that let you look
- at the lattice level.
-
- -Anis.
-