Optimization of composition and microstructure is important to enhance performance of solid oxide fuel cells （SOFC） and lithium-ion batteries （LIB）. For this, the porous electrode structures of both SOFC and LIB a...Optimization of composition and microstructure is important to enhance performance of solid oxide fuel cells （SOFC） and lithium-ion batteries （LIB）. For this, the porous electrode structures of both SOFC and LIB are modeled as a binary mixture of electronic and ionic conducting particles to estimate effective transport properties. Particle packings of 10000 spherical, binary sized and randomly positioned particles are created numerically and densified considering the different manufacturing processes in SOFC and LIB： the sintering of SOFC electrodes is approximated geometrically, whereas the calendering process and volume change due to intercalation in LIB are modeled physically by a discrete el- ement approach. A combination of a tracking algorithm and a resistor network approach is developed to predict the con- nectivity and effective conductivity for the various densified structures. For SOFC, a systematic study of the influence of morphology on connectivity and conductivity is performed on a large number of assemblies with different compositions and particle size ratios between 1 and 10. In comparison to percolation theory, an enlarged percolation area is found, es- pecially for large size ratios. It is shown that in contrast to former studies the percolation threshold correlates to varying coordination numbers. The effective conductivity shows not only an increase with volume fraction as expected but also with size ratio. For LIB, a general increase of conductivity during the intercalation process was observed in correlation with increasing contact forces. The positive influence of cal- endering on the percolation threshold and the effective conductivity of carbon black is shown. The anisotropy caused by the calendering process does not influence the carbon black phase.展开更多
With the increasing application in electromagnetic interference shielding field of high polymer materials, there is an increasing interest in investigating of high polymer composites. The effects of carbon black fract...With the increasing application in electromagnetic interference shielding field of high polymer materials, there is an increasing interest in investigating of high polymer composites. The effects of carbon black fraction on volume resistivity and electromagnetic shielding effectiveness (SE) of nanostructural carbon black (CB)/Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS) composites were studied. The results indicated that when CB mass fraction was over 15%, the volume resistivity dropped sharply and when it rose to 35%, the volume resistivity achieved the lowest value 103 Ω?cm and the SE was about 6 dB. In addition, there are two obvious percolation effect at 15% ~ 20% and 30% ~ 35% CB respectively in the course of the volume resistivity changing.展开更多
Conductive sheets consisting of copper fibers,urea formaldehyde resins and decorative papers were prepared by hot pressing.The results showed that the sheet resistance of composites had mutations with the increasing o...Conductive sheets consisting of copper fibers,urea formaldehyde resins and decorative papers were prepared by hot pressing.The results showed that the sheet resistance of composites had mutations with the increasing of copper fiber filling ratio.The sheets exhibited percolation threshold effect.The threshold of sheets filled with 5 mm copper fibers was about 16% and the threshold of sheets filled with 10 mm or 15 mm copper fibers were about 8.7%.Meanwhile,the sheets showed piezoresistive characteristics and the conductive structure of sheets have been gradually developped into "three-dimensional conductive network" from "two-dimensional conductive network".Moreover,the length of copper fibers showed strong effects to the conductivity.Under the same fiber filling ratio,the larger length of fiber was,the higher conductivity and the lower percolation threshold could be.展开更多
基金supported by the Helmholtz Portfolio "elektrochemische Speicher",particularly the work related to lithium-ion batteriespartially supported as part of the HeteroFoam Center,an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S.Department of Energy,Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences(DE-SC0001061)+1 种基金support from the Center for Scientific Computing at the CNSI and MRL:an NSF MRSEC(DMR-1121053) and NSF (CNS-0960316)Australian Research Council Grant DE130101639
文摘Optimization of composition and microstructure is important to enhance performance of solid oxide fuel cells （SOFC） and lithium-ion batteries （LIB）. For this, the porous electrode structures of both SOFC and LIB are modeled as a binary mixture of electronic and ionic conducting particles to estimate effective transport properties. Particle packings of 10000 spherical, binary sized and randomly positioned particles are created numerically and densified considering the different manufacturing processes in SOFC and LIB： the sintering of SOFC electrodes is approximated geometrically, whereas the calendering process and volume change due to intercalation in LIB are modeled physically by a discrete el- ement approach. A combination of a tracking algorithm and a resistor network approach is developed to predict the con- nectivity and effective conductivity for the various densified structures. For SOFC, a systematic study of the influence of morphology on connectivity and conductivity is performed on a large number of assemblies with different compositions and particle size ratios between 1 and 10. In comparison to percolation theory, an enlarged percolation area is found, es- pecially for large size ratios. It is shown that in contrast to former studies the percolation threshold correlates to varying coordination numbers. The effective conductivity shows not only an increase with volume fraction as expected but also with size ratio. For LIB, a general increase of conductivity during the intercalation process was observed in correlation with increasing contact forces. The positive influence of cal- endering on the percolation threshold and the effective conductivity of carbon black is shown. The anisotropy caused by the calendering process does not influence the carbon black phase.
文摘With the increasing application in electromagnetic interference shielding field of high polymer materials, there is an increasing interest in investigating of high polymer composites. The effects of carbon black fraction on volume resistivity and electromagnetic shielding effectiveness (SE) of nanostructural carbon black (CB)/Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS) composites were studied. The results indicated that when CB mass fraction was over 15%, the volume resistivity dropped sharply and when it rose to 35%, the volume resistivity achieved the lowest value 103 Ω?cm and the SE was about 6 dB. In addition, there are two obvious percolation effect at 15% ~ 20% and 30% ~ 35% CB respectively in the course of the volume resistivity changing.
文摘Conductive sheets consisting of copper fibers,urea formaldehyde resins and decorative papers were prepared by hot pressing.The results showed that the sheet resistance of composites had mutations with the increasing of copper fiber filling ratio.The sheets exhibited percolation threshold effect.The threshold of sheets filled with 5 mm copper fibers was about 16% and the threshold of sheets filled with 10 mm or 15 mm copper fibers were about 8.7%.Meanwhile,the sheets showed piezoresistive characteristics and the conductive structure of sheets have been gradually developped into "three-dimensional conductive network" from "two-dimensional conductive network".Moreover,the length of copper fibers showed strong effects to the conductivity.Under the same fiber filling ratio,the larger length of fiber was,the higher conductivity and the lower percolation threshold could be.
