Dynamics of lithium dendrite growth and inhibition: Pulse charging experiments and monte carlo calculations

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1721-1726

  Aryanfar, Asghar ^a   Brooks, Daniel ^a   Merinov, Boris V ^a   Goddard, William A ^a   Colussi, Agustín J ^a   Hoffmann, Michael R ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Depletion double layers; Diffuse charge dynamics; Electromigration; Lithium batteries; Pulse electrolysis; Short circuiting

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMIGRATION; EXPERIMENTS; LITHIUM; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

CHARGE DYNAMICS; CONTINUOUS CHARGING; DOUBLE LAYERS; ELECTRIC DOUBLE LAYER; MONTE CARLO CALCULATION; PULSE ELECTROLYSIS; SHORT-CIRCUITING; STRONG ELECTRIC FIELDS;

LITHIUM BATTERIES;

EID: 84901046332     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz500207a     Document Type: Article

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