Mechanistic Study of Electrolyte Additives to Stabilize High-Voltage Cathode–Electrolyte Interface in Lithium-Ion Batteries

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Title: Mechanistic Study of Electrolyte Additives to Stabilize High-Voltage Cathode–Electrolyte Interface in Lithium-Ion Batteries

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Current developments of electrolyte additives to stabilize electrode-electrolyte interface in Li-ion batteries highly rely on a trial-and-error search, which involves repetitive testing and intensive amount of resources. The lack of understandings on the fundamental protection mechanisms of the additives significantly increases the difficulty for the transformational development of new additives. In this study, we investigated two types of individual protection routes to build a robust cathode-electrolyte interphase at high potentials: (i) a direct reduction in the catalytic decomposition of the electrolyte solvent; and (ii) formation of a “corrosion inhibitor film” that prevents severely attack and passivation from protons that generated from the solvent oxidation, even the decomposition of solvent cannot not mitigated. Effect of three exemplary electrolyte additives: (i) lithium difluoro(oxalato)borate (LiDFOB); (ii) 3-hexylthiophene (3HT); and (iii) tris(hexafluoro-iso-propyl)phosphate (HFiP), on LiNi _0.6Mn _0.2Co _0.2O ₂ (NMC 622) cathode were investigated to validate our hypothesis. It is demonstrated that understandings of both electrolyte additives and solvent are essential and careful balance between the cathode protection mechanism of additives and their side effects is critical to obtain optimum results. In conclusion, more importantly, this study opens up new directions of rational design of functional electrolyte additives for the next generation high-energy densitymore » lithium-ion chemistries.« less

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Gao, Han ^[1]; Maglia, Filippo ^[2]; Lamp, Peter ^[2];

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Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States)
BMW Group, Munich (Germany)

Publication Date:: 2017-12-06

Research Org.:: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Vehicle Technologies Office (EE-3V)

OSTI Identifier:: 1426673

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 9; Journal Issue: 51; Journal ID: ISSN 1944-8244

Publisher:: American Chemical Society (ACS)

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 25 ENERGY STORAGE; 3HT; HFiP; LiDFOB; electrode-electrolyte interface; electrolyte additives; high voltage; lithium-ion batteries; protection mechanisms

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                    Gao, Han, Maglia, Filippo, Lamp, Peter, Amine, Khalil, and Chen, Zonghai. Mechanistic Study of Electrolyte Additives to Stabilize High-Voltage Cathode–Electrolyte Interface in Lithium-Ion Batteries.  United States: N. p., 2017. 
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                    Gao, Han, Maglia, Filippo, Lamp, Peter, Amine, Khalil, & Chen, Zonghai. Mechanistic Study of Electrolyte Additives to Stabilize High-Voltage Cathode–Electrolyte Interface in Lithium-Ion Batteries.  United States.  doi:10.1021/acsami.7b15395.

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                    Gao, Han, Maglia, Filippo, Lamp, Peter, Amine, Khalil, and Chen, Zonghai. Wed .  
        "Mechanistic Study of Electrolyte Additives to Stabilize High-Voltage Cathode–Electrolyte Interface in Lithium-Ion Batteries".  United States.  doi:10.1021/acsami.7b15395.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1426673.

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@article{osti_1426673,

  title        = {Mechanistic Study of Electrolyte Additives to Stabilize High-Voltage Cathode–Electrolyte Interface in Lithium-Ion Batteries},

  author       = {Gao, Han and Maglia, Filippo and Lamp, Peter and Amine, Khalil and Chen, Zonghai},

  abstractNote = {Current developments of electrolyte additives to stabilize electrode-electrolyte interface in Li-ion batteries highly rely on a trial-and-error search, which involves repetitive testing and intensive amount of resources. The lack of understandings on the fundamental protection mechanisms of the additives significantly increases the difficulty for the transformational development of new additives. In this study, we investigated two types of individual protection routes to build a robust cathode-electrolyte interphase at high potentials: (i) a direct reduction in the catalytic decomposition of the electrolyte solvent; and (ii) formation of a “corrosion inhibitor film” that prevents severely attack and passivation from protons that generated from the solvent oxidation, even the decomposition of solvent cannot not mitigated. Effect of three exemplary electrolyte additives: (i) lithium difluoro(oxalato)borate (LiDFOB); (ii) 3-hexylthiophene (3HT); and (iii) tris(hexafluoro-iso-propyl)phosphate (HFiP), on LiNi0.6Mn0.2Co0.2O2 (NMC 622) cathode were investigated to validate our hypothesis. It is demonstrated that understandings of both electrolyte additives and solvent are essential and careful balance between the cathode protection mechanism of additives and their side effects is critical to obtain optimum results. In conclusion, more importantly, this study opens up new directions of rational design of functional electrolyte additives for the next generation high-energy density lithium-ion chemistries.},

  doi          = {10.1021/acsami.7b15395},

  journal      = {ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces},

  number       = 51,

  volume       = 9,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {2017},

  month        = {12}

}

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