Highly ordered pyrolytic graphite production

Peled and Golodnitsky in Chapter 1 begin with a simple introduction to the SEI concept, and the description of the main principles and routes of SEI formation and identification of possible products. It is followed by a discussion of several issues associated with the mechanisms of SEI formation on inert substrates, lithium metal, carbonaceous materials, and tin-based alloys. Attention is focused on the correlation between composition and morphology of the SEI forming on the various planes of highly ordered pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) as well as on different types of disordered electrodes in LIBs. 

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