Theoretical aspects of electrodeposition in charged porous media

Electrodeposition is a fascinating electrochemical phenomenon that contains deep physical insights and has broad practical applications. At the heart of the physics governing electrodeposition is a competition between a destabilizing force caused by surface crests growing more rapidly than surface troughs in a positive feedback loop and a stabilizing force arising from surface energy effects that prevent the surface from roughening excessively. The physical manifestation of this surface instability is the formation and propagation of dendrites. Some applications of electrodeposition include electroplating of metals such as copper and charging of next-generation high-energy-density metal batteries such as lithium metal batteries. From both theoretical and practical standpoints, it is important to understand how to control and exploit electrode-position.

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Doctoral

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical Engineering

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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2019

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• Khoo, Edwin Sze Lun.

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• Martin Z. Bazant.

• Chemical Engineering.

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• MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

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eng

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https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/121481

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