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- Title
Topology-enhanced mechanical stability of swelling nanoporous electrodes.
- Authors
Grossman-Ponemon, Benjamin E.; Mesgarnejad, Ataollah; Karma, Alain
- Abstract
Materials like silicon and germanium offer a 10-fold improvement in charge capacity over conventional graphite anodes in lithium-ion batteries but experience a roughly threefold volume increase during lithiation, which challenges ensuring battery integrity. Nanoporous silicon, created by liquid-metal-dealloying, is a potentially attractive anode design to mitigate this challenge, exhibiting both higher capacity and extended cycle lifetimes. However, how nanoporous structures accommodate the large volume change is unknown. Here, we address this question by using phase-field modeling to produce nanoporous particles and to investigate their elastoplastic swelling behavior and fracture. Our simulations show that enhanced mechanical stability results from the network topology consisting of ligaments connected by bulbous, sphere-like nodes. The ligaments forcefully resist elongation while the nodes, behaving like isolated spherical particles, experience large stresses driving fracture. However, being smaller compared to a sphere of the same volume as the entire nanoporous particle, the nodes are more protected against fracture.
- Subjects
NANOPOROUS materials; ELECTRODES; STRESS fractures (Orthopedics); LITHIUM-ion batteries; ANODES; LIGAMENTS
- Publication
NPJ Computational Materials, 2023, Vol 9, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2057-3960
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41524-023-01047-y