Kinetics and fracture resistance of lithiated silicon nanostructure pairs controlled by their mechanical interaction

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Lee, Seok Woo ^a   Lee, Hyun Wook ^b   Ryu, Ill ^c   Nix, William D ^b   Gao, Huajian ^c   Cui, Yi ^b,d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c Brown University   (United States)

^d SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM ION; NANOMATERIAL; SILICON;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ELECTRODE; MECHANICAL PROPERTY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PILLAR; REACTION KINETICS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILICON; TENSILE STRESS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; ELECTRIC BATTERY; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ELECTRODE; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; LITHIATION; MECHANICAL STRESS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TENSILE STRENGTH; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84933504753     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8533     Document Type: Article

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