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Published July 20, 2022 | public
Journal Article

Optimization of charge curve for the extreme inhibition of growing microstructures during electrodeposition

Abstract

The formation of branched microstructures during the electrodeposition is a catastrophic event, which hampers the safe utilization of the metallic electrodes in rechargeable batteries. Focusing on the nonlinear growth dynamics of the dendritic microstructures, we tune the rate of the feeding charge against their growth pace to minimize the amount of the dendritic branching, while maintaining a constant feeding charge. The ultimate morphology of the electrodeposits has been shown to be more compact than the conventional uniform charging in terms of the density of the electrodeposits. Due to analytical derivation and the coupled development of the optimal charge form with respect to the natural kinetics of dendritic evolution in real time, we infer that it prevents the branching of the electrodeposits to the greatest extent, during the stochastic evolution of the dendrites.

Additional Information

© The Author(s), under exclusive license to the Materials Research Society 2022. Accepted 13 March 2022. Published 20 July 2022. The authors would like to thank and acknowledge the financial support from the Masri Institute (Award No. 103919) and University Research Board (Award No. 103950) at American University of Beirut. The authors declare that they have no competing financial interests to influence the work reported in this paper.

Additional details

Created:
August 22, 2023
Modified:
October 24, 2023