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Prelithiation design for suppressing delamination in lithium-ion battery electrodes

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Prelithiation has been intensively investigated in high-capacity lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). However, the optimization of prelithiation degrees for long service life of LIBs still remains a challenge. The positive efffect of prelithiation on suppressing degradation of LIBs, besides directly pursuing the high first Coulomb efficiency which has been widely reported in the literature, is revealed and discussed based on an analytical model focusing on the interfacial delamination in electrodes. For full charge-discharge cycling, well-designed prelithiation can effectively suppress the delamination and reduce the debonding size by approximately 25%, compared with the case without prelithiation. For the strategy combining partial charge-discharge cycling and prelithiation, the largest reversible capacity without debonding can be significantly improved by approximately 100% with well-designed prelithiation. This work is expected to provide a prelithiation design principle and further improve the mechanical stability of LIB electrodes.

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  1. Department of Mechanics, Shanghai Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, School of Mechanics and Engineering Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai, 200444, China

    Yifei Qian, Bo Lu, Yinhua Bao, Yicheng Song & Junqian Zhang

  2. Shanghai Key Laboratory of Mechanics in Energy Engineering, Shanghai University, Shanghai, 200444, Germany

    Yifei Qian, Bo Lu, Yinhua Bao, Yicheng Song & Junqian Zhang

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Citation: QIAN, Y. F., LU, B., BAO, Y. H., ZHAO, Y. F., SONG, Y. C., and ZHANG, J. Q. Prelithiation design for suppressing delamination in lithium-ion battery electrodes. Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (English Edition), 42(12), 1703–1716 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1007/s10483-021-2800-8

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Qian, Y., Lu, B., Bao, Y. et al. Prelithiation design for suppressing delamination in lithium-ion battery electrodes. Appl. Math. Mech.-Engl. Ed. 42, 1703–1716 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10483-021-2800-8

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