[HTML][HTML] Transition metal impurities in carbon-based materials: Pitfalls, artifacts and deleterious effects

W Kiciński, S Dyjak - Carbon, 2020 - Elsevier
From carbides in steel to cobalt–carbon covalent bonds in vitamin B 12, transition metal (TM)–
carbon interactions play a critical role in so many aspects of human life that we rarely realize …

Electrochemomechanical degradation of high-capacity battery electrode materials

S Zhang, K Zhao, T Zhu, J Li - Progress in Materials Science, 2017 - Elsevier
Enormous efforts have been undertaken to develop rechargeable batteries with new
electrode materials that not only have superior energy and power densities, but also are …

Inward lithium-ion breathing of hierarchically porous silicon anodes

Q Xiao, M Gu, H Yang, B Li, C Zhang, Y Liu… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Silicon has been identified as a highly promising anode for next-generation lithium-ion
batteries (LIBs). The key challenge for Si anodes is large volume change during the …

A chemo-mechanical model of lithiation in silicon

H Yang, F Fan, W Liang, X Guo, T Zhu… - Journal of the Mechanics …, 2014 - Elsevier
We present a chemo-mechanical model to investigate the lithiation-induced phase
transformation, morphological evolution, stress generation and fracture in crystalline silicon …

Decoding Electrochemical Processes of Lithium‐Ion Batteries by Classical Molecular Dynamics Simulations

X Tan, M Chen, J Zhang, S Li, H Zhang… - Advanced Energy …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Lithium‐ion batteries (LIBs) have played an essential role in the energy storage industry and
dominated the power sources for consumer electronics and electric vehicles. Understanding …

Chemomechanical modeling of lithiation-induced failure in high-volume-change electrode materials for lithium ion batteries

S Zhang - npj Computational Materials, 2017 - nature.com
The rapidly increasing demand for efficient energy storage systems in the last two decades
has stimulated enormous efforts to the development of high-capacity, high-power, durable …

Corrosive fracture of electrodes in Li-ion batteries

R Xu, K Zhao - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2018 - Elsevier
Fracture in electrochemical systems is often corrosive in nature. In Li-ion batteries, Li
reaction causes embrittlement of the host material and typically results in a decrease of …

Surface coating constraint induced self-discharging of silicon nanoparticles as anodes for lithium ion batteries

L Luo, P Zhao, H Yang, B Liu, JG Zhang, Y Cui… - Nano …, 2015 - ACS Publications
One of the key challenges of Si-based anodes for lithium ion batteries is the large volume
change upon lithiation and delithiation, which commonly leads to electrochemi-mechanical …

Gaussian approximation potential modeling of lithium intercalation in carbon nanostructures

S Fujikake, VL Deringer, TH Lee, M Krynski… - The Journal of …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
We demonstrate how machine-learning based interatomic potentials can be used to model
guest atoms in host structures. Specifically, we generate Gaussian approximation potential …

Stress effects on the initial lithiation of crystalline silicon nanowires: reactive molecular dynamics simulations using ReaxFF

A Ostadhossein, ED Cubuk, GA Tritsaris… - Physical Chemistry …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Silicon (Si) has been recognized as a promising anode material for the next-generation high-
capacity lithium (Li)-ion batteries because of its high theoretical energy density. Recent in …