| About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
2022 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
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| Symposium
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Advanced Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage 2022
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| Presentation Title |
Film Strains Enhance the Reversible Cycling of Intercalation Electrodes |
| Author(s) |
Delin Zhang, A. Renuka Balakrishna |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Delin Zhang |
| Abstract Scope |
A key cause of chemo-mechanical degradation in battery electrodes is that they undergo abrupt phase transformation during the charging/discharging cycle. This phase transformation is accompanied by lattice misfit strains that nucleate microcracks, induce fracture, and in extreme cases, amorphizes the electrode. In today's talk, I will show that by engineering suitable film strains in the electrode, we can regulate phase transformation voltages and thus circumvent the chemo-mechanical degradation. We have tested our strategy using a combination of theory and experiment, and we find (for LixV2O5) that tensile film strains lower the voltage for phase transformations to facilitate their reversible cycling across a wider voltage window without chemo-mechanical degradation. These results suggest that film strain engineering is an alternative approach to preventing chemo-mechanical degradation in intercalation electrodes. Beyond thin-film electrodes, our findings are applicable to the study of stress-induced phase transformations in particle-based electrodes and the thin-surface-layers forming on cathode particles. |
| Proceedings Inclusion? |
Planned: |
| Keywords |
Energy Conversion and Storage, Phase Transformations, Thin Films and Interfaces |