Ab initio study of lithium intercalation into a graphite nanoparticle
Ab initio study of lithium intercalation into a graphite nanoparticle
The process of Li intercalation is fundamental to the operation of Li-ion batteries and the computational modelling of this process, as atomic resolution would be of great benefit to the rational design of improved battery materials. Towards this goal, we present an approach and workflow for the simulation of Li intercalation which uses electrostatic considerations. These considerations use the electrostatic potential found from Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations as a guiding principle to find favourable sites for Li intercalation. We test the method on graphite-based models of anodic carbon, graphite nanoparticles. The study of nanoparticles using first-principles methods is made possible thanks to linear-scaling DFT which allows calculations on larger numbers of atoms than conventional DFT. We show how our approach can reproduce the well-known Li staging and we investigate the electronic structure of the nanoparticle obtained via atomic charges and density of states analysis. We also compute the open circuit voltages of the structures via a convex hull formalism and find reasonable agreement with experiment with respect to the degree of Li intercalation. Our approach provides a novel route to simulating the intercalation process and, combined with linear-scaling DFT, can be used to investigate intercalation in complex nanoscale electrode structures.
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Holland, Julian
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Bhandari, Arihant
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Kramer, Denis
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Milman, Victor
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Hanke, Felix
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7 December 2022
Holland, Julian
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Kramer, Denis
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Milman, Victor
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Hanke, Felix
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Holland, Julian, Bhandari, Arihant, Kramer, Denis, Milman, Victor, Hanke, Felix and Skylaris, Chris Kriton
(2022)
Ab initio study of lithium intercalation into a graphite nanoparticle.
Materials Advances, 3 (23), .
(doi:10.1039/d2ma00857b).
Abstract
The process of Li intercalation is fundamental to the operation of Li-ion batteries and the computational modelling of this process, as atomic resolution would be of great benefit to the rational design of improved battery materials. Towards this goal, we present an approach and workflow for the simulation of Li intercalation which uses electrostatic considerations. These considerations use the electrostatic potential found from Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations as a guiding principle to find favourable sites for Li intercalation. We test the method on graphite-based models of anodic carbon, graphite nanoparticles. The study of nanoparticles using first-principles methods is made possible thanks to linear-scaling DFT which allows calculations on larger numbers of atoms than conventional DFT. We show how our approach can reproduce the well-known Li staging and we investigate the electronic structure of the nanoparticle obtained via atomic charges and density of states analysis. We also compute the open circuit voltages of the structures via a convex hull formalism and find reasonable agreement with experiment with respect to the degree of Li intercalation. Our approach provides a novel route to simulating the intercalation process and, combined with linear-scaling DFT, can be used to investigate intercalation in complex nanoscale electrode structures.
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Accepted/In Press date: 27 September 2022
e-pub ahead of print date: 27 September 2022
Published date: 7 December 2022
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We would like to thank Louis Burgess, Thomas Ellaby, Rebecca Clements and Gabriel Bramley for advice and resources for processing the electrostatic potential. We also thank Dr Michael Mercer from the University of Lancaster and Dr Chiara Panosetti from Technische Universität München for directing us to some very useful sources of relevent literature. We are grateful to the UK Materials and Molecular Modelling Hub for computational resources, which is partially funded by EPSRC (EP/P020194/1 and EP/T022213/1). The authors acknowledge the use of the IRIDIS High Performance Computing Facility, and associated support services at the University of Southampton, in the completion of this work. This work used the ARCHER2 UK National Supercomputing Service ( https://www.archer2.ac.uk ). J. H. would like to thank BIOVIA for an EPSRC iCASE PhD funding. A. B. would like to thank the Faraday Institution ( www.faraday.ac.uk ; EP/S003053/1), grant numbers FIRG003 and FIRG025 for postdoctoral funding.
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