Overview
- Nominated as an outstanding PhD thesis by Cornell University
- Provides an introduction to lithium battery science and related design principles
- Proposes new criteria to stabilize dendrite growth along with experimental confirmation
- Presents and experimentally verifies new designs for nanostructured polymer electrolytes
Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
Table of contents (11 chapters)
-
Front Matter
-
Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
This thesis makes significant advances in the design of electrolytes and interfaces in electrochemical cells that utilize reactive metals as anodes. Such cells are of contemporary interest because they offer substantially higher charge storage capacity than state-of-the-art lithium-ion battery technology. Batteries based on metallic anodes are currently considered impractical and unsafe because recharge of the anode causes physical and chemical instabilities that produce dendritic deposition of the metal leading to catastrophic failure via thermal runaway. This thesis utilizes a combination of chemical synthesis, physical & electrochemical analysis, and materials theory to investigate structure, ion transport properties, and electrochemical behaviors of hybrid electrolytes and interfacial phases designed to prevent such instabilities. In particular, it demonstrates that relatively low-modulus electrolytes composed of cross-linked networks of polymer-grafted nanoparticles stabilize electrodeposition of reactive metals by multiple processes, including screening electrode electrolyte interactions at electrochemical interfaces and by regulating ion transport in tortuous nanopores. This discovery is significant because it overturns a longstanding perception in the field of nanoparticle-polymer hybrid electrolytes that only solid electrolytes with mechanical modulus higher than that of the metal electrode are able to stabilize electrodeposition of reactive metals.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Rational Design of Nanostructured Polymer Electrolytes and Solid–Liquid Interphases for Lithium Batteries
Authors: Snehashis Choudhury
Series Title: Springer Theses
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28943-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28942-3Published: 05 October 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-28945-4Published: 05 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-28943-0Published: 25 September 2019
Series ISSN: 2190-5053
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 230
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations, 99 illustrations in colour
Topics: Energy Materials, Energy Storage, Polymer Sciences, Nanoscale Science and Technology