1210.7199 (Peng Bai et al.)

Statistical Kinetics of Phase-Transforming Nanoparticles in LiFePO4
Porous Electrodes    [PDF]

Peng Bai, Guangyu Tian

Using a simple mathematical model, we demonstrate that statistical kinetics of phase-transforming nanoparticles in porous electrodes results in macroscopic non-monotonic transient currents, which could be misinterpreted as the nucleation and growth mechanism by the Kolmogorov-Johnson-Mehl-Avrami (KJMA) theory. Our model decouples the roles of nucleation and surface reaction in the electrochemically driven phase-transformation process by a special activation rate and the mean particle-filling speed of active nanoparticles, which can be extracted from the responses of porous electrodes to identify the dynamics in single composing nanoparticles.

View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.7199