X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Characterization of a Li/S Cell
Abstract
© 2016 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. The X-ray absorption spectroscopy technique has been applied to study different stages of the lithium/sulfur (Li/S) cell life cycle. We have investigated how speciation of S in Li/S cathodes changes upon the introduction of CTAB (cetyltrimethylammonium bromide, CH 3 (CH 2 )i 5 N+(CH 3 ) 3 Br~) and with charge/discharge cycling. The introduction of CTAB changes the synthesis reaction pathway dramatically due to the interaction of CTAB with the terminal S atoms of the polysulfide ions in the Na2S x solution. For the cycled Li/S cell, the loss of electrochemically active sulfur and the accumulation of a compact blocking insulating layer of unexpected sulfur reaction products on the cathode surface during the charge/discharge processes make the capacity decay. A modified coin cell and a vacuum-compatible three-electrode electro-chemical cell have been introduced for further in-situ/in-operando studies.
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- Univ. of Science and Technology of China, Hefei (China); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Advanced Light Source (ALS)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Environmental Energy Technologies Division; Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA (United States)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Advanced Light Source (ALS); Harbin Inst. of Technology (China)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Advanced Light Source (ALS)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Advanced Light Source (ALS); Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, CA (United States)
- Univ. of Science and Technology of China, Hefei (China)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1254009
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1379029
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231; 2013CB834605; U1232102; 21173200; 21473178; (2015SRG-HSC031; 2015HSC-UP022
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Nanomaterials
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 6; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2079-4991
- Publisher:
- MDPI
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 62 RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE; lithium/sulfur cell; X-ray absorption spectroscopy; cetyltrimethylammonium bromide; synthesis; capacity decay; cycled cathode materials; insulating layer; in-situ/in-operando
Citation Formats
Ye, Yifan, Kawase, Ayako, Song, Min-Kyu, Feng, Bingmei, Liu, Yi-Sheng, Marcus, Matthew A., Feng, Jun, Cairns, Elton J., Guo, Jinghua, and Zhu, Junfa. X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Characterization of a Li/S Cell. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.3390/nano6010014.
Ye, Yifan, Kawase, Ayako, Song, Min-Kyu, Feng, Bingmei, Liu, Yi-Sheng, Marcus, Matthew A., Feng, Jun, Cairns, Elton J., Guo, Jinghua, & Zhu, Junfa. X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Characterization of a Li/S Cell. United States. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano6010014
Ye, Yifan, Kawase, Ayako, Song, Min-Kyu, Feng, Bingmei, Liu, Yi-Sheng, Marcus, Matthew A., Feng, Jun, Cairns, Elton J., Guo, Jinghua, and Zhu, Junfa. Mon .
"X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Characterization of a Li/S Cell". United States. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano6010014. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1254009.
@article{osti_1254009,
title = {X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Characterization of a Li/S Cell},
author = {Ye, Yifan and Kawase, Ayako and Song, Min-Kyu and Feng, Bingmei and Liu, Yi-Sheng and Marcus, Matthew A. and Feng, Jun and Cairns, Elton J. and Guo, Jinghua and Zhu, Junfa},
abstractNote = {© 2016 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. The X-ray absorption spectroscopy technique has been applied to study different stages of the lithium/sulfur (Li/S) cell life cycle. We have investigated how speciation of S in Li/S cathodes changes upon the introduction of CTAB (cetyltrimethylammonium bromide, CH 3 (CH 2 )i 5 N+(CH 3 ) 3 Br~) and with charge/discharge cycling. The introduction of CTAB changes the synthesis reaction pathway dramatically due to the interaction of CTAB with the terminal S atoms of the polysulfide ions in the Na2S x solution. For the cycled Li/S cell, the loss of electrochemically active sulfur and the accumulation of a compact blocking insulating layer of unexpected sulfur reaction products on the cathode surface during the charge/discharge processes make the capacity decay. A modified coin cell and a vacuum-compatible three-electrode electro-chemical cell have been introduced for further in-situ/in-operando studies.},
doi = {10.3390/nano6010014},
journal = {Nanomaterials},
number = 1,
volume = 6,
place = {United States},
year = {2016},
month = {1}
}
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