“Knees” in lithium-ion battery aging trajectories

PM Attia, A Bills, FB Planella, P Dechent… - Journal of The …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Lithium-ion batteries can last many years but sometimes exhibit rapid, nonlinear
degradation that severely limits battery lifetime. In this work, we review prior work on" knees" …

Morphology controlled performance of ternary layered oxide cathodes

Z Meng, X Ma, L Azhari, J Hou, Y Wang - Communications Materials, 2023 - nature.com
With the rapid advancement of electric vehicle technologies, ternary layered oxide cathodes
in commercial Li-ion batteries have become increasingly promising due to their high energy …

[HTML][HTML] Insights for understanding multiscale degradation of LiFePO4 cathodes

L Wang, J Qiu, X Wang, L Chen, G Cao, J Wang… - EScience, 2022 - Elsevier
Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) based on olivine LiFePO 4 (LFP) offer long cycle/calendar life
and good safety, making them one of the dominant batteries in energy storage stations and …

[HTML][HTML] Cracking predictions of lithium-ion battery electrodes by X-ray computed tomography and modelling

AM Boyce, E Martínez-Pañeda, A Wade… - Journal of Power …, 2022 - Elsevier
Fracture of lithium-ion battery electrodes is found to contribute to capacity fade and reduce
the lifespan of a battery. Traditional fracture models for batteries are restricted to …

Battery aging mode identification across NMC compositions and designs using machine learning

BR Chen, CM Walker, S Kim, MR Kunz, TR Tanim… - Joule, 2022 - cell.com
A comprehensive understanding of lithium-ion battery (LiB) lifespan is the key to designing
durable batteries and optimizing use protocols. Although battery lifetime prediction methods …

Direct observations of electrochemically induced intergranular cracking in polycrystalline NMC811 particles

HCW Parks, AM Boyce, A Wade… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Establishing the nature of crack generation, formation, and propagation is paramount to
understanding the degradation modes that govern decline in battery performance. Cracking …

A comprehensive understanding of the aging effects of extreme fast charging on high Ni NMC cathode

TR Tanim, Z Yang, DP Finegan… - Advanced Energy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
As the battery industry shifts toward high Ni content cathodes, such as LiNi0. 8Mn0. 1Co0.
1O2 [NMC811], a complete understanding of the degradation mechanisms of NMC811 …

Engineering lithium nickel cobalt manganese oxides cathodes: A computational and experimental approach to bridging gaps

A Rajkamal, A Sharma, BK Pullagura, R Thapa… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) have transformed our envisioned future into a reality where
induction motor engines power electric vehicles (EVs). While LIBs offer impressive …

Asphericity can cause nonuniform lithium intercalation in battery active particles

A Mistry, T Heenan, K Smith, P Shearing… - ACS Energy …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Uniform intercalation is desired to enable next-generation Li-ion batteries. While we expect
nonuniformity in materials undergoing a phase change, single-phase intercalation materials …

Large-scale statistical learning for mass transport prediction in porous materials using 90,000 artificially generated microstructures

B Prifling, M Röding, P Townsend, M Neumann… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Effective properties of functional materials crucially depend on their 3D microstructure. In this
paper, we investigate quantitative relationships between descriptors of two-phase …