Battery knowledge · Aging and degradation
Crosstalk
Degradation at one electrode caused by species produced at the other — dissolved transition metals or oxidation products from the positive electrode damaging the SEI on the negative. It is why electrode aging cannot be studied in isolation.
Example
Aging and degradation: an example situation
Capacity loss and resistance rise can have different causes; a film-growth curve cannot identify both.
Read Crosstalk alongside Electrolyte decomposition in this context. Reduction of the electrolyte at the negative electrode and oxidation at the positive, outside its stability window. A little is useful — it builds the SEI — but continued decomposition consumes lithium, dries the cell and makes gas.
Use in Lemonergy
Separate mechanisms, observations and fitted models.
This is a reference concept. No executable Lemonergy block has been verified for this term.
References & further reading
Further reading on this topic
These sources provide broader context; they are not presented as citations for every statement in this entry.
- Lithium ion battery degradation: what you need to know
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics · 2021
Topic background · Degradation mechanisms, modes, operational effects and their interactions.