Nature Communications (Jul 2019)

Strong stress-composition coupling in lithium alloy nanoparticles

  • Hyeon Kook Seo,
  • Jae Yeol Park,
  • Joon Ha Chang,
  • Kyun Sung Dae,
  • Myoung-Sub Noh,
  • Sung-Soo Kim,
  • Chong-Yun Kang,
  • Kejie Zhao,
  • Sangtae Kim,
  • Jong Min Yuk

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11361-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Electrochemical reactions can generate stresses that detrimentally affect battery electrodes. Here, the authors directly image the lithiation of core-shell tin-based nanoparticles and show that lithium can be redistributed by applying stress and change the nanoparticle composition.