Modeling the effects of pulse plating on dendrite growth in lithium metal batteries

Effect of Major Factors on Lithium Dendrite Growth Studied by Phase Field Modeling

“…Thus, the lithium concentration becomes more uniform to reduce the lithium concentration gradient, and thus nontip may generate more new deposition sites, dispersing the preferential deposition of tip. 36,38 As shown in Figs. 7 and 8, the lithium dendrites under pulse voltage are smaller in height and width than those under constant voltage.…”

“…8,14 As a result, strategies for effectively regulating lithium deposition and inhibiting dendrite growth have been extensively studied, and various methods for inhibiting dendrite growth have been proposed, including adopting electrolyte additives, [15][16][17][18] modified separators/ artificial protective layers, [19][20][21][22][23] solid-state electrolytes [24][25][26][27] and anodes with specially designed structures [28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35] as well as augmenting charging protocols of pulse current. [36][37][38] In addition to strategies for characterizing and inhibiting dendrite growth, mechanistic understanding and mathematical model interpretation of lithium dendrite growth are also needed to solve the dendrite problem and obtain safe and efficient LMBs. Many models and theories have been proposed to describe the formation and early growth of dendrite, including Wranglen theory, 39 Kim and Jorne theory, 40 Bockris and Barton model, 41 Chazalviel model, 42 Akolkar model 43 and Monroe and Newman model, 44 et al Besides, the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method 38,45,46 has been proposed to study lithium deposition in batteries.…”

“…[36][37][38] In addition to strategies for characterizing and inhibiting dendrite growth, mechanistic understanding and mathematical model interpretation of lithium dendrite growth are also needed to solve the dendrite problem and obtain safe and efficient LMBs. Many models and theories have been proposed to describe the formation and early growth of dendrite, including Wranglen theory, 39 Kim and Jorne theory, 40 Bockris and Barton model, 41 Chazalviel model, 42 Akolkar model 43 and Monroe and Newman model, 44 et al Besides, the smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method 38,45,46 has been proposed to study lithium deposition in batteries. Mukherjee et al have developed a simple mesoscale kinetic model 47 and a coarse-grained mesoscale model (KMC) 48 to study dendrite growth.…”

“…In this paper, we use adjusted physical parameters, such as the reaction rate, to indirectly simulate the growth of the SEI layer due to its complex nature. 38 The growth of SEI layer plays an important role in lithium metal batteries and other alkali metal batteries. 60,61 Jana et al studied the effect of the pore size of separator on the morphology of lithium dendrites, providing a guidance for designing battery separator to suppress dendrite growth, 62 and they further established a thermodynamically consistent phase field model to analyze the effect of the concurrently occurring electrochemistry and large deformation plasticity on the lithium deposition.…”

Strategies to develop stable alkali metal anodes for rechargeable batteries

“…These computational studies have played a pivotal role in understanding electrochemical battery kinetics owing to the complexity of obtaining real-time interfacial visualisation and quantitative characterisation through experiments. A very strong understanding of dendrite growth is emerged in recent times [213][214][215][216][217][218][219] and is beyond the scope of this review.…”