Strong kinetics-stress coupling in lithiation of Si and Ge anodes

Extreme Mechanics Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-6

  Yang, Hui ^a   Liang, Wentao ^a   Guo, Xu ^b   Wang, Chong Min ^c   Zhang, Sulin ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CHEMICAL BONDS; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; ELECTRODES; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IN SITU PROCESSING; KINETICS; LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANISOTROPIC SWELLING; CONTINUUM MECHANICS MODELS; HIGH-PERFORMANCE LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES; IN-SITU TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPIES; MECHANICAL STRESS; STRESS GENERATION; SURFACE FRACTURE; TRANSPORT KINETIC;

AMORPHOUS SILICON;

EID: 84930628502     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23524316     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eml.2014.11.008     Document Type: Article

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