{"id":458,"date":"2016-02-18T10:49:26","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T15:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/?p=458"},"modified":"2016-02-18T10:49:26","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T15:49:26","slug":"battery-testing-at-the-advanced-photon-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/?p=458","title":{"rendered":"Battery testing at the Advanced Photon Source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just returned from some battery testing at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www1.aps.anl.gov\">Advanced Photon Source<\/a> near Chicago. Here Snehal models one of the new batteries we&#8217;ve developed for grid-scale electrical storage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snehal-battery1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-460\" src=\"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snehal-battery1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Snehal battery\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snehal-battery1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snehal-battery1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snehal-battery1-400x300.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snehal-battery1.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s a couple of them sitting in the path of an X-ray &#8220;white beam&#8221; that will give us diffraction data while they cycle. This way you can track the mechanism of what&#8217;s happening during battery cycling &#8230; since the cycling is ultimately an electrochemical transformation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/APS-battery-testing.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-461\" src=\"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/APS-battery-testing-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"APS battery testing\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/APS-battery-testing-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/APS-battery-testing-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/APS-battery-testing-400x300.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/APS-battery-testing.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now we&#8217;re going through a full set of data, getting to the bottom of our underlying mechanisms. By the way it snowed quite a bit while we were there. Here&#8217;s the lovely winter view from the guest house.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/APS-snow-Feb-2016.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-462\" src=\"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/APS-snow-Feb-2016-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"APS snow Feb 2016\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/APS-snow-Feb-2016-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/APS-snow-Feb-2016-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/APS-snow-Feb-2016-400x300.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/APS-snow-Feb-2016.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just returned from some battery testing at the Advanced Photon Source near Chicago. Here Snehal models one of the new batteries we&#8217;ve developed for grid-scale electrical storage. And here&#8217;s a couple of them sitting in the path of an X-ray &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/?p=458\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":463,"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions\/463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.joshuagallaway.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}