Electrolyte design for LiF-rich solid–electrolyte interfaces to enable high-performance microsized alloy anodes for batteries
Abstract
Lithium batteries with Si, Al or Bi microsized (>10 µm) particle anodes promise high capacity, ease of production, low cost and lesser environmental impact, yet they suffer from fast degradation and low Coulombic efficiency (CE). Here we demonstrate that a rationally designed electrolyte (2 M LiPF6 in 1:1 v/v mixture of tetrahydrofuran and 2-methyl tetrahydrofuran) enables 100 cycles of full cells containing microsized Si, Al and Bi anodes with commercial LiFePO4 and LiNi0.8Co0.15Al0.05O2 cathodes. Alloy anodes with areal capacities of more than 2.5 mAh cm-2 achieved >300 cycles with high initial CE of >90% and average CE of >99.9%.These improvements are facilitated by the formation of a high modulus LiF|organic bilayer interphase possessing high interfacial energy with the alloy anode to accommodate plastic deformation of the lithiated alloy during cycling. This work provides a simple yet practical solution to current battery technology without any binder modification or special fabrication methods.
- Authors:
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- Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)
- Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, NJ (United States); The State Univ. of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ (United States)
- Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN)
- US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1619250
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1633614
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-215931-2020-JAAM; PNNL-SA-151702
Journal ID: ISSN 2058-7546
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0012704; EE0008202; AC05-76RL01830
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Nature Energy
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 5; Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 2058-7546
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing Group
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 25 ENERGY STORAGE; 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
Citation Formats
Chen, Ji, Fan, Xiulin, Li, Qin, Yang, Hongbin, Khoshi, M. Reza, Xu, Yaobin, Hwang, Sooyeon, Chen, Long, Ji, Xiao, Yang, Chongyin, He, Huixin, Wang, Chongmin, Garfunkel, Eric, Su, Dong, Borodin, Oleg, and Wang, Chunsheng. Electrolyte design for LiF-rich solid–electrolyte interfaces to enable high-performance microsized alloy anodes for batteries. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1038/s41560-020-0601-1.
Chen, Ji, Fan, Xiulin, Li, Qin, Yang, Hongbin, Khoshi, M. Reza, Xu, Yaobin, Hwang, Sooyeon, Chen, Long, Ji, Xiao, Yang, Chongyin, He, Huixin, Wang, Chongmin, Garfunkel, Eric, Su, Dong, Borodin, Oleg, & Wang, Chunsheng. Electrolyte design for LiF-rich solid–electrolyte interfaces to enable high-performance microsized alloy anodes for batteries. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-020-0601-1
Chen, Ji, Fan, Xiulin, Li, Qin, Yang, Hongbin, Khoshi, M. Reza, Xu, Yaobin, Hwang, Sooyeon, Chen, Long, Ji, Xiao, Yang, Chongyin, He, Huixin, Wang, Chongmin, Garfunkel, Eric, Su, Dong, Borodin, Oleg, and Wang, Chunsheng. Mon .
"Electrolyte design for LiF-rich solid–electrolyte interfaces to enable high-performance microsized alloy anodes for batteries". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-020-0601-1. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1619250.
@article{osti_1619250,
title = {Electrolyte design for LiF-rich solid–electrolyte interfaces to enable high-performance microsized alloy anodes for batteries},
author = {Chen, Ji and Fan, Xiulin and Li, Qin and Yang, Hongbin and Khoshi, M. Reza and Xu, Yaobin and Hwang, Sooyeon and Chen, Long and Ji, Xiao and Yang, Chongyin and He, Huixin and Wang, Chongmin and Garfunkel, Eric and Su, Dong and Borodin, Oleg and Wang, Chunsheng},
abstractNote = {Lithium batteries with Si, Al or Bi microsized (>10 µm) particle anodes promise high capacity, ease of production, low cost and lesser environmental impact, yet they suffer from fast degradation and low Coulombic efficiency (CE). Here we demonstrate that a rationally designed electrolyte (2 M LiPF6 in 1:1 v/v mixture of tetrahydrofuran and 2-methyl tetrahydrofuran) enables 100 cycles of full cells containing microsized Si, Al and Bi anodes with commercial LiFePO4 and LiNi0.8Co0.15Al0.05O2 cathodes. Alloy anodes with areal capacities of more than 2.5 mAh cm-2 achieved >300 cycles with high initial CE of >90% and average CE of >99.9%.These improvements are facilitated by the formation of a high modulus LiF|organic bilayer interphase possessing high interfacial energy with the alloy anode to accommodate plastic deformation of the lithiated alloy during cycling. This work provides a simple yet practical solution to current battery technology without any binder modification or special fabrication methods.},
doi = {10.1038/s41560-020-0601-1},
journal = {Nature Energy},
number = 5,
volume = 5,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Apr 20 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Mon Apr 20 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}
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