Summary figure of my doctoral thesis

Half-cell model of a lithium-ion battery	$\ce{LiNi_{x}Mn_{y}Co_{z}O}$(NMC) particle with cracks

The topic of my thesis is chemo-mechanical modeling of lithium-ion batteries, where the diffusion of lithium as well as the intercalation-induced stress are evolved to study the chemo-mechanical interplay in polycrystalline energy materials.

I developed a thermodynamically consistent framework for both the grains and grain boundaries. Therefore, one can easily get the constitutive laws for the mechanical response as well as the across-GB transport law for both the ion transport and the mechanical failure based on the free energy he inputs.