The behavior of a many-particle electrode in a lithium-ion battery (Q2276144)

The authors consider a rechargeable lithium-ion battery that uses a many-particle \(FePO_4\) electrode to reversibly store lithium atoms and study in detail a many-particle model for the electrode. The model is capable to describe a kind of phase transition where each individual particle of the electrode is homogeneous. This phenomenon is due to the non-monotone relation between the chemical potential and the lithium mole fraction of a single particle.