Journal
ELECTROCHIMICA ACTA
Volume 342, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2020.136034
Keywords
Secondary-pore network; Dual-pore network; Lithium-ion battery; Laser ablation; Freeze-casting
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- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-AC36-08GO28308]
- U.S. DOE Office of Vehicle Technology Extreme Fast Charge Cell Evaluation of Lithium-Ion Batteries (XCEL) Program
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Battery performance is strongly correlated with electrode microstructural properties. Enabling fast charging of lithium-ion batteries requires improved through-plane ionic diffusion that can be achieved through, among other strategies, structured electrodes with a secondary- or dual-pore network (SPN). In this work, an analytical model investigates the impact of such an SPN on ionic diffusion with a composite electrode, considering various pore-channel geometries and comparing to standard electrodes with identical gravimetric- and volumetric-specific theoretical capacities. Relevant SPN design parameters and tortuosity coefficients are identified according to three optimization objectives that aim to balance the improved overall through-plane diffusion, thanks to the coarse aligned channels, and degraded in-plane diffusion because of the porous matrix densification required to maintain gravimetric- and volumetric-specific theoretical capacities. The model indicates that a relatively low amount of SPN is required and that electrodes with high through-plane tortuosity and low in-plane tortuosity benefit most from such architecture. (C) 2020 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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