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Film strains enhance the reversible cycling of intercalation electrodes
Materials Science · Submitted 15 Jun 2021
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The authors' main claim These results suggest that film strain engineering is an alternative approach to preventing chemo-mechanical degradation in intercalation electrodes.
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A key cause of chemo-mechanical degradation in battery electrodes is that they undergo abrupt phase transformation during the charging/discharging cycle. This phase transformation is accompanied by lattice misfit strains that nucleate microcracks, induce fracture and, in extreme cases, amorphize the intercalation electrode. In this work, we propose a strategy to prevent the chemo-mechanical degradation of intercalation electrodes: we show that by engineering suitable film strains we can regulate the phase transformations in thin-film intercalation electrodes and circumvent the large volume changes. We test this strategy using a combination of theory and experiment: we first analytically derive the effect of film strain on the electrochemical response of a thin-film intercalation electrode and next apply our analytical model to a representative example (LixV2O5 with multiple phase transformations). We then test our theoretical predictions experimentally. Specifically, we electrochemically cycle thin-film V2O5 electrodes with different film strains and measure their structure, voltage, and stress responses. Our findings show that tensile film strains lower the voltage for phase transformations in thin-film V2O5 electrodes and facilitate their reversible cycling across a wider voltage window without chemo-mechanical degradation. These results suggest that film strain engineering is an alternative approach to preventing chemo-mechanical degradation in intercalation electrodes. Beyond thin-film electrodes, our findings from this study are applicable to the study of stress-induced phase transformations in particle-based electrodes and the thin surface layers forming on cathode particles.
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| s0 | A key cause of chemo-mechanical degradation in battery electrodes is that they undergo abrupt phase transformation during the charging/discharging cycle. | background 1.00 | 0.06 | 0.02 | asserted 1.00 |
| s1 | This phase transformation is accompanied by lattice misfit strains that nucleate microcracks, induce fracture and, in extreme cases, amorphize the intercalation electrode. | background 1.00 | 0.06 | 0.02 | asserted 1.00 |
| s2 | In this work, we propose a strategy to prevent the chemo-mechanical degradation of intercalation electrodes: we show that by engineering suitable film strains we can regulate the phase transformations in thin-film intercalation electrodes and circumvent the large volume changes. | contribution 1.00 | 0.81 | 0.47 | asserted 0.99 |
| s3 | We test this strategy using a combination of theory and experiment: we first analytically derive the effect of film strain on the electrochemical response of a thin-film intercalation electrode and next apply our analytical model to a representative example (LixV2O5 with multiple phase transformations). | method 0.94 | 0.97 | 0.04 | asserted 0.94 |
| s4 | We then test our theoretical predictions experimentally. | method 0.91 | 0.94 | 0.02 | asserted 0.89 |
| s5 | Specifically, we electrochemically cycle thin-film V2O5 electrodes with different film strains and measure their structure, voltage, and stress responses. | method 1.00 | 0.98 | 0.03 | asserted 0.99 |
| s6 | Our findings show that tensile film strains lower the voltage for phase transformations in thin-film V2O5 electrodes and facilitate their reversible cycling across a wider voltage window without chemo-mechanical degradation. | result 1.00 | 0.97 | 0.86 | asserted 1.00 |
| s7 | These results suggest that film strain engineering is an alternative approach to preventing chemo-mechanical degradation in intercalation electrodes. | interpretation 1.00 | 0.51 | 0.68 | hedged possibility 1.00 |
| s8 | Beyond thin-film electrodes, our findings from this study are applicable to the study of stress-induced phase transformations in particle-based electrodes and the thin surface layers forming on cathode particles. | interpretation 0.77 | 0.58 | 0.11 | hedged possibility 0.68 |
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A key cause of chemo-mechanical degradation in battery electrodes is that they undergo abrupt phase transformation during the charging/discharging cycle. This phase transformation is accompanied by lattice misfit strains that nucleate microcracks, induce fracture and, in extreme cases, amorphize the intercalation electrode. In this work, we propose a strategy to prevent the chemo-mechanical degradation of intercalation electrodes: we show that by engineering suitable film strains we can regulate the phase transformations in thin-film intercalation electrodes and circumvent the large volume changes. We test this strategy using a combination of theory and experiment: we first analytically derive the effect of film strain on the electrochemical response of a thin-film intercalation electrode and next apply our analytical model to a representative example (LixV2O5 with multiple phase transformations). We then test our theoretical predictions experimentally. Specifically, we electrochemically cycle thin-film V2O5 electrodes with different film strains and measure their structure, voltage, and stress responses. Our findings show that tensile film strains lower the voltage for phase transformations in thin-film V2O5 electrodes and facilitate their reversible cycling across a wider voltage window without chemo-mechanical degradation. These results suggest that film strain engineering is an alternative approach to preventing chemo-mechanical degradation in intercalation electrodes. Beyond thin-film electrodes, our findings from this study are applicable to the study of stress-induced phase transformations in particle-based electrodes and the thin surface layers forming on cathode particles.
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