Insights into degradation of Si anodes from first-principle calculations

Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Volumn 117, Issue 37, 2013, Pages 18796-18803

  Rohrer, Jochen ^a   Albe, Karsten ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE SI (C-SI); DEGREE OF DEGRADATION; FIRST PRINCIPLE CALCULATIONS; FORMATION ENERGIES; MODEL GEOMETRY; ONE-PHASE REGION; TWO-PHASE REGION; VOLUME CHANGE;

ANODES; EXTRACTION; LITHIUM; NANOWIRES; SILICON;

AMORPHOUS SILICON;

EID: 84884544508     PISSN: 19327447     EISSN: 19327455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp401379d     Document Type: Article

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