A Hybrid Phase Field Model for Fracture Induced by Lithium Diffusion in Electrode Particles of Li-ion Batteries

Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) of high energy density and light-weight design, have found wide applications in electronic devices and systems. Degradation mechanisms that caused by lithiation is a main challenging problem for LIBs with high capacity electrodes like silicon (Si), which eventually can reduce the lifetime of batteries. In this paper, a hybrid phase field model (PFM) is proposed to study the fracture behavior of LIB electrodes. The model considers the coupling effects between lithium (Li) -ion diffusion process, stress evolution and crack propagation. Also, the dependency of Elastic properties on the concentration magnitude of Li-ion is considered. A numerical implementation based on a MATLAB finite element (FE) code is elaborated. Then, the proposed hybrid PF approach is applied to a Nanowire (NW) Si electrode particle. It is shown that the hybrid model shows less tendency to crack growth than the isotropic model.

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