Fabrication of Low-Tortuosity Ultrahigh-Area-Capacity Battery Electrodes through Magnetic Alignment of Emulsion-Based Slurries
Abstract
Abstract High energy‐density, low‐cost batteries are critically important to a variety of applications ranging from portable electronics to electric vehicles (EVs) and grid‐scale storage. While tremendous research effort has been focused on new materials or chemistries with high energy‐density potential, design innovations such as low‐tortuosity thick electrodes are another promising path toward higher energy density and lower cost. Growing demand for fast‐charging batteries has also highlighted the need for negative electrodes that can accept high rate charging without metal deposition; low tortuosity can be a benefit in this regard. However, a general and scalable fabrication method for low‐tortuosity electrodes is currently lacking. Here an emulsion‐based, magnetic‐alignment approach to producing thick electrodes (>400 µm thickness) with ultrahigh areal capacity (up to ≈14 mAh cm −2 vs 2–4 mAh cm −2 for conventional lithium ion) is reported. The process is demonstrated for LiCoO 2 and meso‐carbon microbead graphite. The LiCoO 2 cathodes are confirmed to have low tortuosity via DC‐depolarization experiments and deliver high areal capacity (>10 mAh cm −2 ) in galvanostatic discharge tests at practical C‐rates and model EV drive‐cycle tests. This simple fabrication method can potentially be applied to many other active materials to enable thick, low‐tortuosity electrodes.
- Authors:
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- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., Shanghai, (China); Shanghai Electrochemical Energy Devices Research Center, Shanghai (China)
- Northeastern Univ., Boston, MA (United States)
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1498274
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1483709
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-211313-2019-JAAM
Journal ID: ISSN 1614-6832
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0012704; DE‐AC02‐05CH11231; 7056592; DE‐SC0012704
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Advanced Energy Materials
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 9; Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 1614-6832
- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 25 ENERGY STORAGE; emulsion; low‐tortuosity; magnetic alignment; thick electrodes
Citation Formats
Li, Linsen, Erb, Randall M., Wang, Jiajun, Wang, Jun, and Chiang, Yet -Ming. Fabrication of Low-Tortuosity Ultrahigh-Area-Capacity Battery Electrodes through Magnetic Alignment of Emulsion-Based Slurries. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1002/aenm.201802472.
Li, Linsen, Erb, Randall M., Wang, Jiajun, Wang, Jun, & Chiang, Yet -Ming. Fabrication of Low-Tortuosity Ultrahigh-Area-Capacity Battery Electrodes through Magnetic Alignment of Emulsion-Based Slurries. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.201802472
Li, Linsen, Erb, Randall M., Wang, Jiajun, Wang, Jun, and Chiang, Yet -Ming. Wed .
"Fabrication of Low-Tortuosity Ultrahigh-Area-Capacity Battery Electrodes through Magnetic Alignment of Emulsion-Based Slurries". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.201802472. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1498274.
@article{osti_1498274,
title = {Fabrication of Low-Tortuosity Ultrahigh-Area-Capacity Battery Electrodes through Magnetic Alignment of Emulsion-Based Slurries},
author = {Li, Linsen and Erb, Randall M. and Wang, Jiajun and Wang, Jun and Chiang, Yet -Ming},
abstractNote = {Abstract High energy‐density, low‐cost batteries are critically important to a variety of applications ranging from portable electronics to electric vehicles (EVs) and grid‐scale storage. While tremendous research effort has been focused on new materials or chemistries with high energy‐density potential, design innovations such as low‐tortuosity thick electrodes are another promising path toward higher energy density and lower cost. Growing demand for fast‐charging batteries has also highlighted the need for negative electrodes that can accept high rate charging without metal deposition; low tortuosity can be a benefit in this regard. However, a general and scalable fabrication method for low‐tortuosity electrodes is currently lacking. Here an emulsion‐based, magnetic‐alignment approach to producing thick electrodes (>400 µm thickness) with ultrahigh areal capacity (up to ≈14 mAh cm −2 vs 2–4 mAh cm −2 for conventional lithium ion) is reported. The process is demonstrated for LiCoO 2 and meso‐carbon microbead graphite. The LiCoO 2 cathodes are confirmed to have low tortuosity via DC‐depolarization experiments and deliver high areal capacity (>10 mAh cm −2 ) in galvanostatic discharge tests at practical C‐rates and model EV drive‐cycle tests. This simple fabrication method can potentially be applied to many other active materials to enable thick, low‐tortuosity electrodes.},
doi = {10.1002/aenm.201802472},
journal = {Advanced Energy Materials},
number = 2,
volume = 9,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Nov 28 00:00:00 EST 2018},
month = {Wed Nov 28 00:00:00 EST 2018}
}
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