The paper presents a super‑resolution generative adversarial network (SRGAN) that boosts electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) throughput for lithium‑ion battery electrode materials. Trained on LiNixMnyCozO2 cathode data, the SRGAN outperforms classical interpolation across 2×–12× upscaling, especially preserving small grains and realistic boundaries. A 5× upscaling yields a 25× speed‑up or larger field of view with acceptable errors in grain size and shape metrics.
By John Mangum, Andrew Glaws, Francois Usseglio-Viretta, Steven Spurgeon, Donal Finegan
arXiv:2609.14348v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Heterogeneous interfaces dictate the performance and degradation of functional materials, making it essential to link local structural variations wit...
By Haoran Zhang, Zian Mao, Shufen Chu, Xiaoya He, Yuyan Guan, Antong Yang, Mingze Li, Xiaoqin Zeng, Yujun Xie
arXiv:2607. 10388v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming electron microscopy by enabling quantitative analysis of increasingly large and complex datasets for nanoparticle characterization.
By Evropi Toulkeridou, Jiafei Li, Leonardo Lari, Panagiotis Grammatikopoulos
arXiv:2609.36639v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) is a widely used tool for characterizing surfaces of materials at the atomic scale, playing a crucial role in disco...
By Huanhuan Zhao, Laxmi Bhurtel, Connor Vernachio, Fahmy Paiziah, Wonhee Ko, Arpan Biswas
The paper presents a data‑efficient method for quantifying cracks in lithium‑ion cathodes using a frozen self‑supervised vision‑transformer encoder, a lightweight decoder, and iterative model‑assisted annotation. Applied to three 120‑megapixel NMC cathode cross‑sections, the framework distinguishes intragranular from early and late intergranular cracks, providing per‑particle distributions of crack width, tortuosity, and area fraction. Late intergranular crack coverage reaches 4.6% in cycled samples versus 0.5% in initial and calendar‑aged samples, indicating degradation primarily from electrochemical cycling.
By Thorsten Tegetmeyer-Kleine, Thomas Schmitt, Phillip Aquino, Christiane Rahe, Dirk Uwe Sauer, Weihan Li
arXiv:2606. 28220v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have emerged as a powerful tool for solving nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs), including battery electrochemical models.
By Gift Modekwe, Qiugang Lu