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We review recent ab initio molecular dynamics studies of electrode/electrolyte interfaces in lithium ion batteries. Our goals are to introduce experimentalists to simulation techniques applicable to models which are arguably most faithful…
In this study, we propose a novel approach for investigating the formation of solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) in Na-ion batteries (NIB) through the coupling of in situ liquid electrochemical transmission electron microscopy (ec-TEM) and…
Porous electrode theory, pioneered by John Newman and collaborators, provides a useful macroscopic description of battery cycling behavior, rooted in microscopic physical models rather than empirical circuit approximations. The theory…
The quest for safe high-energy batteries with "5V-class" cathodes and lithium metal anodes drives research into solid electrolytes. However, reasons for the large charge transfer resistances -- the major bottleneck of all-solid-state…
Solid-state electrolytes, by enabling lithium metal anodes, may significantly increase the energy density of current lithium-ion batteries. However, similar to their liquid counterparts, these hard and stiff electrolytes can still be…
Here, we correlate the nanoscale morphology and chemical composition of solid electrolyte interphases (SEI) with the electrochemical property of graphite-based composite electrodes. Using electrochemical strain microscopy (ESM) and X-ray…
Passivating solid-electrolyte interphase (SEI) films arising from electrolyte decomposition on low-voltage lithium ion battery anode surfaces are critical for battery operations. We review the recent theoretical literature on electrolyte…
Using cryogenic transmission electron microscopy, we revealed three dimensional (3D) structural details of the electrochemically plated lithium (Li) flakes and their solid electrolyte interphase (SEI), including the composite SEI skin-layer…
Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) of high energy density and light-weight design, have found wide applications in electronic devices and systems. Degradation mechanisms that caused by lithiation is a main challenging problem for LIBs with high…
This paper presents a novel battery modeling framework based on the enhanced single particle model (ESPM) to account for degradation mechanisms of second-life batteries. While accounting for the transport and electrochemical phenomena in…
The formation of passivating films is a common aging phenomenon, for example in weathering of rocks, silicon, and metals. In many cases, a dual-layer structure with a dense inner and a porous outer layer emerges. However, the origin of this…
This paper proposes a fully unsupervised methodology for the reliable extraction of latent variables representing the characteristics of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) from electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) data using information…
Due to its exceptional lithium storage capacity silicon is considered as a promising candidate for anode material in lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). In the present work we demonstrate that methods of the soft X-ray emission spectroscopy…
This paper presents a novel diffuse-interface electrochemical model that simultaneously simulates the evolution of the metallic negative electrode and interfacial voids during the stripping and plating processes in solid-state batteries.…
The incorporation of ceramics into polymers, forming solid composite electrolytes (SCEs) leads to enhanced electrical performance of all-solid-state lithium metal batteries. This is because the dispersed ceramics particles increase the…
Solid ionic conductors are essential components of batteries and fuel cells. In many cases, ionic conduction through crystalline materials with substitutional disorder can be modeled with atomic-scale lattice model percolation simulations.…
A general physics-based model is developed for heterogeneous electrocatalysis in porous electrodes and used to predict and interpret the impedance of solid oxide fuel cells. This model describes the coupled processes of oxygen gas…
In mathematical models of lithium-ion batteries, the highly heterogeneous porous electrodes are frequently approximated as comprising spherical particles of uniform size, leading to the commonly-used single-particle model (SPM) when…
We carefully investigated the storage of lithium in titania films on various substrates as a function of thickness. The experiments enable us to precisely separate contributions from bulk and boundary storage. The battery capacity…
A major challenge in the development of new battery materials is understanding their fundamental mechanisms of operation and degradation. Their microscopically inhomogeneous nature calls for characterization tools that provide operando and…