رسالة جامعية

Investigating ageing mechanisms in electric vehicle batteries : A multiscale approach to material analysis

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Investigating ageing mechanisms in electric vehicle batteries : A multiscale approach to material analysis
المؤلفون: Mikheenkova, Anastasiia
بيانات النشر: Uppsala universitet, Strukturkemi
Uppsala
سنة النشر: 2023
المجموعة: Uppsala University: Publications (DiVA)
مصطلحات موضوعية: Li-ion batteries, Ni-rich cathode, Ageing mechanisms, Batteries for electric vehicles, X-ray diffraction, NCA, NMC811, Materials Chemistry, Materialkemi
الوصف: Electrifying passenger transport is a key strategy in combating global warming, with Li-ion batteries (LIBs) being the current go-to technology. Despite LIB’s satisfactory performance and carbon-neutral operation, lifetime and safety are still public concerns. A thorough understanding of battery ageing is crucial for improving LIBs and advancing the overall sustainability of LIB technology. This thesis bridges a gap between academic and industrial research by combining commercial battery investigation with a multiscale approach using a combination of in-house and synchrotron characterization methods used with the implementation of method development to study commercial batteries. The multiple degradation mechanisms were identified at various scales in the aged commercial cells. Specifically, the results show that the studied cells exhibit significant and distinct ageing heterogeneity in prismatic and cylindrical cell formats, where the area with the highest degradation is found on the side of the positive tab, where the current and temperature gradients are expected to be the strongest. After decoupling the performance on the electrode level, the Ni-rich layered oxide positive electrodes show a significant increase in Li+ diffusion resistance in the aged materials as a function of the State of Charge (SoC) range and temperature. Furthermore, heterogeneity is an issue relevant also on a secondary particle scale, where identified SoC gradients ranging from the centre to the surface of the particle might induce kinetic limitations and cause an increase in Li+ diffusion resistance. On a single particle level, the formation of a large number of voids within the grains was found. Such degradation can additionally contribute to the resistance increase in the material by changing tortuosity for Li-ions. Finally, at the atomic level, Ni was found to be the dominant charge compensator, which can decrease up to 25% of the redox activity after ageing. Compared to Ni, Co was found to be less redox-active, but more involved ...
نوع الوثيقة: doctoral or postdoctoral thesis
وصف الملف: application/pdf
اللغة: English
ردمك: 978-91-513-1939-1
91-513-1939-X
العلاقة: Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology, 1651-6214; 2329; orcid:0000-0002-5845-3403; http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-514588Test; urn:isbn:978-91-513-1939-1
الإتاحة: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-514588Test
حقوق: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.62F88406
قاعدة البيانات: BASE