Annealing kinetics of electrodeposited lithium dendrites


ARYANFAR A., Cheng T., Colussi A. J., Merinov B. V., Goddard W. A., Hoffmann M. R.

Journal of Chemical Physics, cilt.143, sa.13, 2015 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 143 Sayı: 13
  • Basım Tarihi: 2015
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1063/1.4930014
  • Dergi Adı: Journal of Chemical Physics
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

The densifying kinetics of lithium dendrites is characterized with effective activation energy of Ea ≈ 6 - 7 kcal mol-1 in our experiments and molecular dynamics computations. We show that heating lithium dendrites for 55 °C reduces the representative dendrites length λ ¯ (T, t) up to 36%. NVT reactive force field simulations on three-dimensional glass phase dendrites produced by our coarse grained Monte Carlo method reveal that for any given initial dendrite morphology, there is a unique stable atomic arrangement for a certain range of temperature, combined with rapid morphological transition (∼10 ps) within quasi-stable states involving concurrent bulk and surface diffusions. Our results are useful for predicting the inherent structural characteristics of lithium dendrites such as dominant coordination number.