Hui Yang, graduate student in Engineering Science and Mechanics, under the advising of Professor Sulin Zhang will travel to San Antonio, Texas to attend and present at The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society (TMS) 2013. While attending the conference, Hui will present a paper entitled Mechanics of Lithiation in Silicon. Hui’s multiscale model that couples atomistic simulations with continuum chemo-mechanics to study the phase transformation stress generation, large plastic flow, damage evolution and failure in lithiated Silicon will be presented. The study will shed light on the lithiation-mediated degradation in nanostructured electrodes. The multiscale modeling framework is generic and will provide a basis for simulating the morphological evolution, stress generation, and failure in high-capacity electrodes for the next-generation lithium-ion batteries. To learn more about the conference, please visit their website.