Re-Engineering Poly(Acrylic Acid) Binder toward Optimized Electrochemical Performance for Silicon Lithium-Ion Batteries: Branching Architecture Leads to Balanced Properties of Polymeric Binders
Abstract
Silicon is a promising anode material for lithium-ion batteries with its superior capacity. However, the drastic volume changes during lithiation/delithiation cycles hinder the cycling performance, resulting in particle pulverization, conductivity loss, and an unstable electrode-electrolyte interface. In this work, a series of synthetic polymeric binders, poly(acrylic acid-co-tetra(ethylene glycol) diacrylate)-featuring a poly(acrylic acid) (PAA) backbone branched via tetra(ethylene glycol) diacrylate (TEGDA)-are developed that edge toward evidencing well-balanced properties to confront capacity fading in Si-based electrodes. The incorporation of ether chain not only leads to the branching architecture of the PAA backbone, thus affecting its mechanical properties, but also promotes the conductivity of Li ions. As a result, a synergistic performance improvement is observed in both half and full cells. The best-performing cell using a branched PAA binder (bPAA) with a feeding molar ratio ([TEGDA]:[acrylic acid(AA)]) of 0.2 results in a 10% increase in initial capacity and a 31% increase in capacity retention over 100 cycles compared to the linear PAA cell. The cross-sectional microscopic images of the cycled electrodes reveal that bPAA binders can drastically reduce the electrode expansion. This improvement results from the well-balanced properties of the polymer design, which could guide further development for more advanced binder materials.
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- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States)
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR)
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- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Center for Nanoscale Materials
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Transportation Office. Vehicle Technologies Office
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1632851
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- OSTI ID: 1580540; OSTI ID: 1756183
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357; AC02‐06CH11357
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Advanced Functional Materials
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 30; Journal Issue: 10; Journal ID: ISSN 1616-301X
- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 25 ENERGY STORAGE; branched PAA; lithium-ion batteries; polymer binder; silicon anode
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Jiang, Sisi, Hu, Bin, Shi, Zhangxing, Chen, Wei, Zhang, Zhengcheng, and Zhang, Lu. Re-Engineering Poly(Acrylic Acid) Binder toward Optimized Electrochemical Performance for Silicon Lithium-Ion Batteries: Branching Architecture Leads to Balanced Properties of Polymeric Binders. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1002/adfm.201908558.
Jiang, Sisi, Hu, Bin, Shi, Zhangxing, Chen, Wei, Zhang, Zhengcheng, & Zhang, Lu. Re-Engineering Poly(Acrylic Acid) Binder toward Optimized Electrochemical Performance for Silicon Lithium-Ion Batteries: Branching Architecture Leads to Balanced Properties of Polymeric Binders. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201908558
Jiang, Sisi, Hu, Bin, Shi, Zhangxing, Chen, Wei, Zhang, Zhengcheng, and Zhang, Lu. Fri .
"Re-Engineering Poly(Acrylic Acid) Binder toward Optimized Electrochemical Performance for Silicon Lithium-Ion Batteries: Branching Architecture Leads to Balanced Properties of Polymeric Binders". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201908558. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1632851.
@article{osti_1632851,
title = {Re-Engineering Poly(Acrylic Acid) Binder toward Optimized Electrochemical Performance for Silicon Lithium-Ion Batteries: Branching Architecture Leads to Balanced Properties of Polymeric Binders},
author = {Jiang, Sisi and Hu, Bin and Shi, Zhangxing and Chen, Wei and Zhang, Zhengcheng and Zhang, Lu},
abstractNote = {Silicon is a promising anode material for lithium-ion batteries with its superior capacity. However, the drastic volume changes during lithiation/delithiation cycles hinder the cycling performance, resulting in particle pulverization, conductivity loss, and an unstable electrode-electrolyte interface. In this work, a series of synthetic polymeric binders, poly(acrylic acid-co-tetra(ethylene glycol) diacrylate)-featuring a poly(acrylic acid) (PAA) backbone branched via tetra(ethylene glycol) diacrylate (TEGDA)-are developed that edge toward evidencing well-balanced properties to confront capacity fading in Si-based electrodes. The incorporation of ether chain not only leads to the branching architecture of the PAA backbone, thus affecting its mechanical properties, but also promotes the conductivity of Li ions. As a result, a synergistic performance improvement is observed in both half and full cells. The best-performing cell using a branched PAA binder (bPAA) with a feeding molar ratio ([TEGDA]:[acrylic acid(AA)]) of 0.2 results in a 10% increase in initial capacity and a 31% increase in capacity retention over 100 cycles compared to the linear PAA cell. The cross-sectional microscopic images of the cycled electrodes reveal that bPAA binders can drastically reduce the electrode expansion. This improvement results from the well-balanced properties of the polymer design, which could guide further development for more advanced binder materials.},
doi = {10.1002/adfm.201908558},
journal = {Advanced Functional Materials},
number = 10,
volume = 30,
place = {United States},
year = {2019},
month = {12}
}
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