Lithiation-induced embrittlement of multiwalled carbon nanotubes

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 7245-7253

  Liu, Yang ^a   Zheng, He ^b,g   Liu, Xiao Hua ^a   Huang, Shan ^c   Zhu, Ting ^c   Wang, Jiangwei ^b   Kushima, Akihiro ^d   Hudak, Nicholas S ^a   Huang, Xu ^e   Zhang, Sulin ^e   Mao, Scott X ^b   Qian, Xiaofeng ^f   Li, Ju ^d   Huang, Jian Yu ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^f Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^g WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

brittle fracture; carbon nanotubes; lattice expansion; lithiation embrittlement; lithium ion batteries

Indexed keywords

ANTIBONDING; APPLIED STRAIN; CARBON-CARBON BOND; CARBONACEOUS ANODES; CHEMICAL EFFECT; DEGRADATION MECHANISM; ELECTRON TRANSFER; FRACTURE STRAIN; HOOP STRESS; IN-SITU; IN-SITU COMPRESSION; LATTICE EXPANSION; LITHIATION; LITHIUM ION BATTERIES; LITHIUM-ION BATTERY; MECHANICAL EFFECTS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; TUBE WALLS;

BRITTLE FRACTURE; CARBON; CARBON NANOTUBES; DEGRADATION; EMBRITTLEMENT; LITHIUM; LITHIUM ALLOYS; LITHIUM BATTERIES; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; TENSILE TESTING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (MWCN);

EID: 80053336374     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn202071y     Document Type: Article

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