Modifying the Surface of a High-Voltage Lithium-Ion Cathode

doi:10.1021/acsaem.8b00323

Title: Modifying the Surface of a High-Voltage Lithium-Ion Cathode

Abstract

Ni-rich lithium nickel manganese cobalt oxides (LiNi_xMn_yCo_1–x–yO₂, NMCs) suffer from poor cycling stability at potentials above 4.2 V vs Li/Li⁺. This degraded cyclability at high potentials has been largely ascribed to the parasitic reactions between the delithiated cathode and the nonaqueous electrolyte. In this study, we mitigated the performance degradation of high-voltage NMC 622 by designing a functional interfacial layer that consists of a surface doping by Ti⁴⁺ and a TiO₂ coating at the same time. The doping of Ti⁴⁺ near the surface of NMC can suppress the irreversible phase transformation, while the TiO₂ coating can kinetically reduce the rate of the electron-transfer reaction between the delithiated cathode and the solvent. Furthermore, it is revealed that this interfacial engineering approach significantly enhanced both the cycling stability and the rate performance of NMC 622.

Authors:

Gao, Han ^[1]; Zeng, Xiaoqiao ^[1]; Hu, Yixin ^[2]; Tileli, Vasiliki ^[3]; Li, Luxi ^[1]; Ren, Yang ^[1];

^[4]; Maglia, Filippo ^[5]; Lamp, Peter ^[5]; Kim, Sung-Jin ^[5];

^[6];

^[1]

Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States)
Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (United States)
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Vaud (Switzerland)
Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR (United States)
BMW Group, Munich, Germany 80788
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States); Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal Univ., Dammam (Saudi Arabia)

Publication Date:: 2018-05-03

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:: 1491025

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: ACS Applied Energy Materials

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 1; Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 2574-0962

Publisher:: American Chemical Society (ACS)

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 25 ENERGY STORAGE; Dual-functional coating; High voltage; Lithium ion batteries; Nickel-rich NMC; TiO2; high-voltage cathode; lithium-ion batteries; Ti4+ doping; TiO2 coating

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                    Gao, Han, Zeng, Xiaoqiao, Hu, Yixin, Tileli, Vasiliki, Li, Luxi, Ren, Yang, Meng, Xiangbo, Maglia, Filippo, Lamp, Peter, Kim, Sung-Jin, Amine, Khalil, and Chen, Zonghai. Modifying the Surface of a High-Voltage Lithium-Ion Cathode.  United States: N. p., 2018. 
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                    Gao, Han, Zeng, Xiaoqiao, Hu, Yixin, Tileli, Vasiliki, Li, Luxi, Ren, Yang, Meng, Xiangbo, Maglia, Filippo, Lamp, Peter, Kim, Sung-Jin, Amine, Khalil, & Chen, Zonghai. Modifying the Surface of a High-Voltage Lithium-Ion Cathode.  United States.  doi:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.8b00323

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                    Gao, Han, Zeng, Xiaoqiao, Hu, Yixin, Tileli, Vasiliki, Li, Luxi, Ren, Yang, Meng, Xiangbo, Maglia, Filippo, Lamp, Peter, Kim, Sung-Jin, Amine, Khalil, and Chen, Zonghai. Thu .  
        "Modifying the Surface of a High-Voltage Lithium-Ion Cathode".  United States.  doi:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.8b00323.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1491025.

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@article{osti_1491025,

  title        = {Modifying the Surface of a High-Voltage Lithium-Ion Cathode},

  author       = {Gao, Han and Zeng, Xiaoqiao and Hu, Yixin and Tileli, Vasiliki and Li, Luxi and Ren, Yang and Meng, Xiangbo and Maglia, Filippo and Lamp, Peter and Kim, Sung-Jin and Amine, Khalil and Chen, Zonghai},

  abstractNote = {Ni-rich lithium nickel manganese cobalt oxides (LiNixMnyCo1–x–yO2, NMCs) suffer from poor cycling stability at potentials above 4.2 V vs Li/Li+. This degraded cyclability at high potentials has been largely ascribed to the parasitic reactions between the delithiated cathode and the nonaqueous electrolyte. In this study, we mitigated the performance degradation of high-voltage NMC 622 by designing a functional interfacial layer that consists of a surface doping by Ti4+ and a TiO2 coating at the same time. The doping of Ti4+ near the surface of NMC can suppress the irreversible phase transformation, while the TiO2 coating can kinetically reduce the rate of the electron-transfer reaction between the delithiated cathode and the solvent. Furthermore, it is revealed that this interfacial engineering approach significantly enhanced both the cycling stability and the rate performance of NMC 622.},

  doi          = {10.1021/acsaem.8b00323},

  journal      = {ACS Applied Energy Materials},

  number       = 5,

  volume       = 1,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {2018},

  month        = {5}

}

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