European Battery Hub Publications

2025

  • Battery research needs more reliable, representative and reproducible synchrotron characterizations Jakub Drnec, Sandrine Lyonnard.

    Jakub Drnec, Sandrine Lyonnard.

    Nat. Nanotechnol. 20, 584–587, 2025 (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-025-01921-4)

  • From P3 to P2: Synthesis and Role of Morphology in Li-Substituted Layered Oxides for Na-Ion Batteries

    Mingfeng Xu. Prabhat Thapliyal, Jade Laurier, Rémi Tucoulou, Manfred Burghammer, Stefan Seidlmayer, and Matteo Bianchini*

    ACS Energy Lett. 10, 6347−6355, 2025 (https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.5c03108)

  • Boosting Ion Transport and Stability in Halide Solid Electrolytes via S and F Codoping

    Priya Ganesan, Ramon Zimmermanns, Guillaume Navallon, Yang Hu, Thomas Diemant, Gabriel J. Cuello, Inés Puente Orench, Blanka Detlefs, Ritambhara Gond, Alberto Varzi, Jianneng Liang* and Maximilian Fichtner*

    ACS Energy Lett., 10, 5946−5955. 2025 (https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.5c02729)

Battery Pilot Hub Publications

2025

  • Operando microimaging of crystal structure and orientation in all components of all-solid-state-batteries

    Quentin Jacquet, Jacopo Cele, Lara Casiez, Samuel Tardif, Asma Medjaheh, Stephanie Pouget, Manfred Burghammer, Sandrine Lyonnard & Sami Oukassi.

    Nature Communications 16, 11524, 2025 (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-66306-6)

  • Dead, Slow, and Overworked Graphite: Operando X-Ray Microdiffraction Mapping of Aged Electrodes

    Gozde Oney, Federico Monaco, Saptarshee Mitra, Asma Medjahed, Manfred Burghammer, Dmitry Karpov, Marta Mirolo, Jakub Drnec, Isabelle C Jolivet, Quentin Arnoux, Samuel Tardif, Quentin Jacquet, Sandrine Lyonnard.

    Adv. Energy Mater. 15, e02032, 2025 (https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202502032)

  • Building a community lightsource meta-infrastructure to accelerate battery innovation in Europe

    Sandrine Lyonnard, Caterina Biscari, Benedetto Bozzini, Montse Casas-Cabanas, Barbara Machado Calisto, Matilda Fransson, Rita Graceffa, Franz Hennies, Bernd Hinrichsen, Martin Karlsson, Elmar Kataev, Maya Kiskinova, Cyril Marino, Marta Mirolo, Doriana Orbanic, Marine Reynaud, Paul Shearing, Laura Simonelli, Lorenzo Stievano, Michael E. Stuckelberger, Jakub Drnec.

    J. Phys. Energy 7, 031001, 2025 (https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7655/addd46)

  • Comparative Study of the Quantitative Analysis of Battery Materials with X-ray Nano-tomography: From Ex Situ toward Operando Measurements

    Victor Vanpeene, Olga Stamati, Cyril Guilloud, Rémi Tucoulou, Benjamin Holliger, Marion Chandesris, Sandrine Lyonnard, Julie Villanova.

    ACS Nano 19, 9994−10012, 2025 (https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.4c16419)

  • Mapping Reaction Mechanism During Overcharge of a LiNiO2/Graphite–Silicon Lithium‐Ion Battery: A Correlative Operando Approach by Simultaneous Gas Analysis and Synchrotron Scattering Techniques

    Quentin Jacquet, Irina Profatilova, Loïc Baggetto, Bouthayna Alrifai, Elisabeth Addes, Paul Chassagne, Nils Blanc, Samuel Tardif, Lise Daniel, Sandrine Lyonnard.

    Adv. Energy Mater. 15, 2404080, 2025 (https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202404080)

  • Microstructure and (De)lithiation Front in a 400 µm Thick 3D-Printed LiFePO4 Electrode Tú T. T. Nguyen, Hamid Hamed,

    Tú T. T. Nguyen, Hamid Hamed, Quentin Jacquet, Saeed Yari, Jan D’Haen, Yuan-Chi Yang, Gozde Oney, Sandrine Lyonnard, Samuel Tardif, Marta Mirolo, Mahsa Mohammad, Jakub Drnec, Jasper Lefevere, An Hardy, Sébastien Sallard, Yoran De Vos, Mohammadhosein Safari.

    Batteries & Supercaps 00, e202500577, 2025 (http://doi.org/10.1002/batt.202500577)

  • Exploring electrochemical dynamics in graphite||LiNi0.8Mn0.1Co0.1O2 cells via operando ultrasound and multiprobe approaches

    Corentin Renais, Benjamin Mercier-Guyon, David Wasylowski, Morian Sonnet, Phillip Dechent, Maxime Servajon, Nils Blanc, Sandrine Lyonnard, Dirk Uwe Sauer & Claire Villevieille.

    Nature Communications 16, 7774, 2025 (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-62935-z)

  • Understanding the Irreversible Lithium Loss in Silicon Anodes Using Multi-edge X-ray Scattering Analysis

    Michael A. Hernandez Bertran, Diana Zapata Dominguez, Christopher L. Berhaut, Samuel Tardif, Alessandro Longo, Christoph J. Sahle, Chiara Cavallari, Emmanuelle de Clermont Gallerande, Ivan Marri, Nathalie Herlin-Boime, Elisa Molinari, Stéphanie Pouget, Deborah Prezzi, and Sandrine Lyonnard.

    Chemistry of Materials 37 (10), 3648-3660, 2025 (https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.chemmater.4c03366)

  • Temperature-Dependent Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering at Ni L3-Edge for NaNiO2 and LiNiO2

    Quentin Jacquet, Kurt Kummer, Marie Guignard, Elisa Grépin, Sathiya Mariyappan, Nicholas B. Brookes, and Sandrine Lyonnard.

    The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 129(39), 17437-17445, 2025 (https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpcc.5c04544)

  • Can sulfide solid electrolytes for lithium-ion batteries be handled in dry rooms? – A multiprobe approach

    Ivan Leteyi Mfiban, Victor Vanpeene, Vasily Tarnopolskiy, Magali Reytier, Oskar Thompson, Claire Villevieille, Marco Di Michiel, Lise Daniel, Sandrine Lyonnard, Irina Profatilova.

    Energy Storage Materials 83, 104742, 2025 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ensm.2025.104742)

  • Ionic Conductivity of Composite Polymer Electrolyte: Clarifying the Role of the Interface with Nonconductive Particles

    Guillaume Navallon,  Federico Monaco,  Katharina Märker,  Peter Cloetens,  Jakub Drnec,  Duncan Atkins,  Lionel Picard,  Sandrine Lyonnard.

    ChemSusChem. 18, e202402709, 2025 (https://doi.org/10.1002/cssc.202402709)

  • Investigating the densification of Li6PS5Cl solid electrolyte through multi-scale characterization techniques

    Ove Korjus, Saptarshee Mitra, Quentin Berrod, Victor Vanpeene, Markus Appel, Ludovic Broche, Sandrine Lyonnard, Claire Villevieille.

    Energy Storage Materials 82, 104589, 2025 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ensm.2025.104589)

2024

  • Strain and collapse during lithiation of layered transition metal oxides: a unified picture

    Thibaut Jousseaume, Jean-François Colin, Marion Chandesris, Sandrine Lyonnard, Samuel Tardif.

    Energy Environ. Sci. 17, 2753, 2024 (https://doi.org/10.1039/D3EE04115H)

  • First Experimental Assessment of All-Solid-State Battery Thermal Runaway Propagation in a Battery Pack

    Natacha Darmet, Juliette Charbonnel, Magali Reytier, Ludovic Broche, Rémi Vincent.

    ACS Appl. Energy Mater. 7, 4365−4375, 2024 (https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.4c00248)

  • The origins of critical deformations in cylindrical silicon based Li-ion batteries

    Erik Lübke, Lukas Helfen, Phil Cook, Marta Mirolo, Valentin Vinci, Ove Korjus, Bernd Fuchsbichler, Stefan Koller, Roland Brunner, Jakub Drnec, Sandrine Lyonnard.

    Energy Environ. Sci. 17, 5048–5059, 2024 (https://doi.org/10.1039/D4EE00590B)

  • A Fundamental Correlative Spectroscopic Study on Li1‐xNiO2 and NaNiO2

    Quentin Jacquet, Nataliia Mozhzhukhina, Peter N. O. Gillespie, Gilles Wittmann, Lucia Perez Ramirez, Federico G. Capone, Jean‐Pascal Rueff, Stephanie Belin, Rémi Dedryvère, Lorenzo Stievano, Aleksandar Matic, Emmanuelle Suard, Nicholas B. Brookes, Alessandro Longo, Deborah Prezzi, Sandrine Lyonnard, Antonella Iadecola.

    Adv. Energy Mater. 14, 2401413, 2024 (https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202401413)

  • Utilizing active learning to accelerate segmentation of microstructures with tiny annotation budgets

    Laura Hannemose Rieger, François Cadiou, Quentin Jacquet, Victor Vanpeene, Julie Villanova, Sandrine Lyonnard, Tejs Vegge, Arghya Bhowmik.

    Energy Storage Materials 73, 103785, 2024 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ensm.2024.103785)

  • Imaging inter - and intra-particle features in crystalline cathode materials for Li-ion batteries using nano-focused beam techniques at 4th generation synchrotron sources

    Mattia Colalongo, Nikita Vostrov, Isaac Martens, Edoardo Zatterin, Marie-Ingrid Richard, Francois Cadiou, Quentin Jacquet, Jakub Drnec, Steven J. Leake, Tanja Kallio, Xiaobo Zhu, Sandrine Lyonnard, Tobias Schulli.

    Microstructures 4, 2024044, 2024 (http://dx.doi.org/10.20517/microstructures.2024.19)

  • Revealing how internal sensors in a smart battery impact the local graphite lithiation mechanism

    Annabel Olgo, Sylvie Genies, Romain Franchi, Cédric Septet, Quentin Jacquet, Quentin Berrod, Rasmus Palm, Pascale Chenevier, Elise Villemin, Claire Villevieille, Nils Blanc, Samuel Tardif, Olivier Raccurt, Sandrine Lyonnard.

    Nat. Commun. 15, 10258, 2024 (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-54656-6)

  • Room‐Temperature Sintering of Amorphous Thiophosphate Solid Electrolyte (Li3PS4): Coupling Morphological Evolution to Electrochemical Properties

    Patrice Perrenot, Adrien Fauchier‐Magnan, Marta Mirolo, Lauréline Lecarme, Pierre‐Henri Jouneau, Adrien Boulineau, Pascale Bayle‐Guillemaud, Claire Villevieille.

    Adv. Funct. Mater. 34, 2310739, 2024 (https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202310739)

2023

  • Charge Dynamics Induced by Lithiation Heterogeneity in Silicon‐Graphite Composite Anodes

    Christopher L. Berhaut, Marta Mirolo, Diana Zapata Dominguez, Isaac Martens, Stéphanie Pouget, Nathalie Herlin‐Boime, Marion Chandesris, Samuel Tardif, Jakub Drnec, Sandrine Lyonnard.

    Adv. Energy Mater. 13, 2301874, 2023 (https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202301874)

  • How Beam Damage Can Skew Synchrotron Operando Studies of Batteries

    Thibaut Jousseaume, Jean-François Colin, Marion Chandesris, Sandrine Lyonnard, Samuel Tardif.

    ACS Energy Lett. 8, 3323−3329, 2023 (https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.3c00815)

  • Preliminary study of all-solid-state batteries: Evaluation of blast formation during the thermal runaway

    Juliette Charbonnel, Sébastien Dubourg, Etienne Testard, Ludovic Broche, Christophe Magnier, Thibaut Rochard, Daniel Marteau, Pierre-Xavier Thivel, Rémi Vincent.

    iScience 26, 108078, 2023 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.108078)

2022

  • Safety Evaluation of All-Solid-State Batteries: An Innovative Methodology Using In Situ Synchrotron X-ray Radiography

    Juliette Charbonnel, Natacha Darmet, Claire Deilhes, Ludovic Broche, Magali Reytier, Pierre-Xavier Thivel, Rémi Vincent.

    ACS Appl. Energy Mater. 5, 10862−10871, 2022 (https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.2c01514)

  • Accelerating Battery Characterization Using Neutron and Synchrotron Techniques: Toward a Multi‐Modal and Multi‐Scale Standardized Experimental Workflow

    Duncan Atkins, Ennio Capria, Kristina Edström, Theodosios Famprikis, Alexis Grimaud, Quentin Jacquet, Mark Johnson, Aleksandar Matic, Poul Norby, Harald Reichert, Jean‐Pascal Rueff, Claire Villevieille, Marnix Wagemaker, Sandrine Lyonnard.

    Adv. Energy Mater. 12, 2102694, 2022 (https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202102694)