Fracture of crystalline germanium during electrochemical lithium insertion

Extreme Mechanics Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 15-19

  Lee, Seok Woo ^a   Ryu, Ill ^b   Nix, William D ^b   Cui, Yi ^b,c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropic expansion; Anode; Fracture; Germanium; Li ion batteries

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ANODES; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; EXPANSION; FRACTURE; GERMANIUM; IONS;

ANISOTROPIC EXPANSION; ANISOTROPIC FRACTURES; CRITICAL DIMENSION; CRYSTALLINE GERMANIUM; CRYSTALLINE SILICONS; ELECTROCHEMICAL LITHIUM INSERTION; ISOTROPIC EXPANSION; RADIAL EXPANSIONS;

LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES;

EID: 84933530864     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23524316     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eml.2015.01.009     Document Type: Article

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