Novel Low-Temperature Electrolyte Using Isoxazole as the Main Solvent for Lithium-Ion Batteries

Tan, Sha; Rodrigo, Undugodage Dilhari; Shadike, Zulipiya; Lucht, Brett; Xu, Kang; Wang, Chunsheng; Yang, Xiao-Qing; Hu, Enyuan

doi:10.1021/acsami.1c05894

Novel Low-Temperature Electrolyte Using Isoxazole as the Main Solvent for Lithium-Ion Batteries

Journal Article · Wed May 19 00:00:00 EDT 2021 · ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.1c05894· OSTI ID:1784490

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Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Univ. of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI (United States)
Army Research Lab., Adelphi, MD (United States)
Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)

A novel electrolyte system with an excellent low temperature performance for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) has been developed and studied. It was discovered for the first time, in this work, that when isoxazole (IZ) was used as the main solvent, the ionic conductivity of the electrolyte for LIBs is more than doubled in a temperature range between -20 and 20 °C compared to the baseline electrolyte using ethylene carbonate–ethyl methyl carbonate as solvents. To solve the problem of solvent cointercalation into the graphite anode and/or electrolyte decomposition, the lithium difluoro(oxalato)borate (LiDFOB) salt and fluoroethylene carbonate (FEC) additive were used to form a stable solid electrolyte interphase on the surface of the graphite anode. Benefitting from the high ionic conductivity at low temperature, cells using a new electrolyte with 1 M LiDFOB in FEC/IZ (1:10, vol %) solvents demonstrated a very high reversible capacity of 187.5 mAh g^-1 at -20 °C, while the baseline electrolyte only delivered a reversible capacity of 23.1 mAh g^-1.

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Research Organization:: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Vehicle Technologies Office

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0012704

OSTI ID:: 1784490

Report Number(s):: BNL-221452-2021-JAAM

Journal Information:: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, Journal Name: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces Journal Issue: 21 Vol. 13; ISSN 1944-8244

Publisher:: American Chemical Society (ACS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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