TY - JOUR U1 - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed) A1 - Hall, Florian A1 - Wußler, Sabine A1 - Buqa, Hilmi A1 - Bessler, Wolfgang G. T1 - Asymmetry of Discharge/Charge Curves of Lithium-Ion Battery Intercalation Electrodes JF - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C N2 - Nickel cobalt aluminum oxide (NCA) based lithium-ion battery electrodes exhibit a distinct asymmetry in discharge/charge behavior towards high bulk stoichiometry (low state of charge). We show that basic electrochemical relationships, that is, the Nernst equation and the Butler-Volmer equation, are able to reproduce this behavior when a two-step reaction mechanism is assumed. The two-step mechanism consists of (1) lithium-ion adsorption from the electrolyte onto the active material particle surface under electron transfer, and (2) intercalation of surface-adsorbed lithium atoms into the bulk material. The asymmetry of experimental half-cell data of an NCA electrode cycled at 0.1 C-rate can be quantitatively reproduced with this simple model. The model parameters show two alternative solutions, predicting either a saturated (highly-covered) or a depleted surface for high bulk lithiation. KW - Lithium-Ionen-Akkumulator KW - Aufladung Y1 - 2016 SN - 1932-7455 (Online) SS - 1932-7455 (Online) SN - 1932-7447 (Print) SS - 1932-7447 (Print) U6 - https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b07949 DO - https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b07949 VL - 120 IS - 41 SP - 23407 EP - 23414 ER -