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An intrinsic knowledge gap between current understandings obtained experimentally and the underlying working or degradation mechanisms of rechargeable lithium batteries still remains, giving direct rise to application challenges, e.g., safety issues, predicaments in identifying performance-aging factors and dilemmas in guiding further research directions. Against this background, non-destructive and three-dimensional (synchrotron) X-ray tomography that guarantees a direct visual access to inner electrodes has been employed herein to: in-situ record the evolution of internal short circuits; characterize the behaviors of widely employed separators; investigate the morphological evolution of Li electrodes under different cycling conditions; and study the degradation mechanisms of Li/carbon cells. [...]

X-ray free-electron lasers provide femtosecond-duration pulses of hard X-rays with a peak brightness approximately one billion times greater than is available at synchrotron radiation facilities. One motivation for the development of such X-ray sources was the proposal to obtain structures of macromolecules, macromolecular complexes, and virus particles, without the need for crystallization, through diffraction measurements of single non- crystalline objects [...]

The Association of Friends of Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin awarded during the 9th Joint BER II and BESSY II User Meeting on December 14, 2017 the 17th Innovation Award on Synchrotron Radiation which is sponsored by the firms SPECS GmbH and BESTEC GmbH. A team from DESY in Hamburg was bestowed: Dr. [...]

The Fast Beam Condition Monitor (BCM1F) is used in CMS to measure beam induced background and precision luminosity. The system in its current implementation was first installed in 2014, equipped with single-crystalline (sCVD) diamond sensors. [...]