Quantifying the hydrodynamic contribution to electrical transport in non-Brownian suspensions

Autor: Han Lin, Madhu V. Majji, Noah Cho, John R. Zeeman, James W. Swan, Jeffrey J. Richards
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 119(29)
ISSN: 1091-6490
Popis: Electrical transport in semiconducting and metallic particle suspensions is an enabling feature of emerging grid-scale battery technologies. Although the physics of the transport process plays a key role in these technologies, no universal framework has yet emerged. Here, we examine the important contribution of shear flow to the electrical transport of non-Brownian suspensions. We find that these suspensions exhibit a strong dependence of the transport rate on the particle volume fraction and applied shear rate, which enables the conductivity to be dynamically changed by over 10 7 decades based on the applied shear rate. We combine experiments and simulations to conclude that the transport process relies on a combination of charge and particle diffusion with a rate that can be predicted using a quantitative physical model that incorporates the self-diffusion of the particles.
Databáze: OpenAIRE