Lattice doping regulated interfacial reactions in cathode for enhanced cycling stability
Abstract
Interfacial reactions between electrode and electrolyte are critical, either beneficial or detrimental, for the performance of rechargeable batteries. The general approaches of controlling interfacial reactions are either applying a coating layer on cathode or modifying the electrolyte chemistry. Here we demonstrate an approach of modification of interfacial reactions through dilute lattice doping for enhanced battery properties. Using atomic level imaging, spectroscopic analysis and density functional theory calculation, we reveal aluminum dopants in lithium nickel cobalt aluminum oxide are partially dissolved in the bulk lattice with a tendency of enrichment near the primary particle surface and partially exist as aluminum oxide nano-islands that are epitaxially dressed on the primary particle surface. The aluminum concentrated surface lowers transition metal redox energy level and consequently promotes the formation of a stable cathode-electrolyte interphase. The present observations demonstrate a general principle as how the trace dopants modify the solid-liquid interfacial reactions for enhanced performance.
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- Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
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- USDOE
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- 1644162
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- OSTI ID: 1571502
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- PNNL-SA-144976
Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723; 3447; PII: 11299
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- Nature Communications
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- Journal Name: Nature Communications Journal Volume: 10 Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723
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- Nature Publishing Group
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- United Kingdom
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- English
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Zou, Lianfeng, Li, Jianyu, Liu, Zhenyu, Wang, Guofeng, Manthiram, Arumugam, and Wang, Chongmin. Lattice doping regulated interfacial reactions in cathode for enhanced cycling stability. United Kingdom: N. p., 2019.
Web. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11299-2.
Zou, Lianfeng, Li, Jianyu, Liu, Zhenyu, Wang, Guofeng, Manthiram, Arumugam, & Wang, Chongmin. Lattice doping regulated interfacial reactions in cathode for enhanced cycling stability. United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11299-2
Zou, Lianfeng, Li, Jianyu, Liu, Zhenyu, Wang, Guofeng, Manthiram, Arumugam, and Wang, Chongmin. Thu .
"Lattice doping regulated interfacial reactions in cathode for enhanced cycling stability". United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11299-2.
@article{osti_1644162,
title = {Lattice doping regulated interfacial reactions in cathode for enhanced cycling stability},
author = {Zou, Lianfeng and Li, Jianyu and Liu, Zhenyu and Wang, Guofeng and Manthiram, Arumugam and Wang, Chongmin},
abstractNote = {Interfacial reactions between electrode and electrolyte are critical, either beneficial or detrimental, for the performance of rechargeable batteries. The general approaches of controlling interfacial reactions are either applying a coating layer on cathode or modifying the electrolyte chemistry. Here we demonstrate an approach of modification of interfacial reactions through dilute lattice doping for enhanced battery properties. Using atomic level imaging, spectroscopic analysis and density functional theory calculation, we reveal aluminum dopants in lithium nickel cobalt aluminum oxide are partially dissolved in the bulk lattice with a tendency of enrichment near the primary particle surface and partially exist as aluminum oxide nano-islands that are epitaxially dressed on the primary particle surface. The aluminum concentrated surface lowers transition metal redox energy level and consequently promotes the formation of a stable cathode-electrolyte interphase. The present observations demonstrate a general principle as how the trace dopants modify the solid-liquid interfacial reactions for enhanced performance.},
doi = {10.1038/s41467-019-11299-2},
journal = {Nature Communications},
number = 1,
volume = 10,
place = {United Kingdom},
year = {2019},
month = {8}
}
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