Mathematical modeling of lithium-ion intercalation particles and their electrochemical dynamics

Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mathematics, 2015.

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Main Author: Zeng, Yi, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Other Authors: Martin Z. Bazant.
Format: Thesis
Language:eng
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/99062
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spelling mit-1721.1/990622019-04-12T13:50:08Z Mathematical modeling of lithium-ion intercalation particles and their electrochemical dynamics Zeng, Yi, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Martin Z. Bazant. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics. Mathematics. Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mathematics, 2015. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-190). Lithium-ion battery is a family of rechargeable batteries with increasing importance that is closely related to everyone's daily life. However, despite its enormously wide applications in numerous areas, the mechanism of lithium-ion transport within the battery is still unclear, especially for phase separable battery materials, such as lithium iron phosphate and graphite. Mathematical modeling of the battery dynamics during charging/discharging will be helpful to better understand its mechanism, and may lead to future improvement in the battery technology. In this thesis, a new theoretical framework, the Cahn-Hilliard reaction (CHR) model, is applied to model the bulk phase separation dynamics of the single intercalated particle in the lithium-ion battery. After a study of the efficient numerical algorithm for solving nonlinear diffusion equations, we numerically investigate the thermodynamics and electrokinetics of the 1D spherical CHR model with different possible material properties in detail. We also extend the CHR model to 2D and briefly study the effects of the surface electron-conducting coating layer. We also work on the Marcus theory, which is demonstrated to be a better theoretical framework for heterogeneous electron transfer at the surface of intercalated particles in the batteries. We provide simple closed-form approximations to both the symmetric Marcus-Hush-Chidsey (MHC) and the asymmetric-Marcus-Hush (AMH) models by asymptotic technique. By avoiding the numerical evaluations of the improper integral in the old formulae, computing the surface reaction rate with the new approximation is now more than 1000 times faster than before. by Yi Zeng. Ph. D. 2015-09-29T19:01:03Z 2015-09-29T19:01:03Z 2015 2015 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/99062 921851714 eng M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 190 pages application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology
spellingShingle Mathematics.
Zeng, Yi, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mathematical modeling of lithium-ion intercalation particles and their electrochemical dynamics
title Mathematical modeling of lithium-ion intercalation particles and their electrochemical dynamics
title_full Mathematical modeling of lithium-ion intercalation particles and their electrochemical dynamics
title_fullStr Mathematical modeling of lithium-ion intercalation particles and their electrochemical dynamics
title_full_unstemmed Mathematical modeling of lithium-ion intercalation particles and their electrochemical dynamics
title_short Mathematical modeling of lithium-ion intercalation particles and their electrochemical dynamics
title_sort mathematical modeling of lithium ion intercalation particles and their electrochemical dynamics
topic Mathematics.
url http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/99062
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