A High-Rate Aqueous Proton Battery Delivering Power Below -78 °C via an Unfrozen Phosphoric Acid
Abstract
Lithium-sulfur batteries are attractive for automobile and grid applications due to their high theoretical energy density and the abundance of sulfur. Despite the significant progress in cathode development, lithium metal degradation and the polysulfide shuttle remain two critical challenges in the practical application of Li-S batteries. Development of advanced electrolytes has become a promising strategy to simultaneously suppress lithium dendrite formation and prevent polysulfide dissolution. Here, a new class of concentrated siloxane-based electrolytes, demonstrating significantly improved performance over the widely investigated ether-based electrolytes are reported in terms of stabilizing the sulfur cathode and Li metal anode as well as minimizing flammability. Through a combination of experimental and computational investigation, it is found that siloxane solvents can effectively regulate a hidden solvation-ion-exchange process in the concentrated electrolytes that results from the interactions between cations/anions and solvents. As a result, it could invoke a quasi-solid-solid lithiation and enable reversible Li plating/stripping and robust solid-electrolyte interphase chemistries. The solvation-ion-exchange process in the concentrated electrolytes is a key factor in understanding and designing electrolytes for other high-energy lithium metal batteries.
- Authors:
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- Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR (United States)
- Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States)
- Hewlett‐Packard Company, Corvallis, OR (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1658599
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1632241
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357; AC02‐06CH11357
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Advanced Energy Materials
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 10; Journal Issue: 28; Journal ID: ISSN 1614-6832
- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 25 ENERGY STORAGE; Aqueous electrolyte; battery; low temperature; phosphoric acid; proton
Citation Formats
Jiang, Heng, Shin, Woochul, Ma, Lu, Hong, Jessica J., Wei, Zhixuan, Liu, Yusung, Zhang, Suoying, Wu, Xianyong, Xu, Yunkai, Guo, Qiubo, Subramanian, Mas A., Stickle, William F., Wu, Tianpin, Lu, Jun, and Ji, Xiulei. A High-Rate Aqueous Proton Battery Delivering Power Below -78 °C via an Unfrozen Phosphoric Acid. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1002/aenm.202000968.
Jiang, Heng, Shin, Woochul, Ma, Lu, Hong, Jessica J., Wei, Zhixuan, Liu, Yusung, Zhang, Suoying, Wu, Xianyong, Xu, Yunkai, Guo, Qiubo, Subramanian, Mas A., Stickle, William F., Wu, Tianpin, Lu, Jun, & Ji, Xiulei. A High-Rate Aqueous Proton Battery Delivering Power Below -78 °C via an Unfrozen Phosphoric Acid. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202000968
Jiang, Heng, Shin, Woochul, Ma, Lu, Hong, Jessica J., Wei, Zhixuan, Liu, Yusung, Zhang, Suoying, Wu, Xianyong, Xu, Yunkai, Guo, Qiubo, Subramanian, Mas A., Stickle, William F., Wu, Tianpin, Lu, Jun, and Ji, Xiulei. Mon .
"A High-Rate Aqueous Proton Battery Delivering Power Below -78 °C via an Unfrozen Phosphoric Acid". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202000968. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1658599.
@article{osti_1658599,
title = {A High-Rate Aqueous Proton Battery Delivering Power Below -78 °C via an Unfrozen Phosphoric Acid},
author = {Jiang, Heng and Shin, Woochul and Ma, Lu and Hong, Jessica J. and Wei, Zhixuan and Liu, Yusung and Zhang, Suoying and Wu, Xianyong and Xu, Yunkai and Guo, Qiubo and Subramanian, Mas A. and Stickle, William F. and Wu, Tianpin and Lu, Jun and Ji, Xiulei},
abstractNote = {Lithium-sulfur batteries are attractive for automobile and grid applications due to their high theoretical energy density and the abundance of sulfur. Despite the significant progress in cathode development, lithium metal degradation and the polysulfide shuttle remain two critical challenges in the practical application of Li-S batteries. Development of advanced electrolytes has become a promising strategy to simultaneously suppress lithium dendrite formation and prevent polysulfide dissolution. Here, a new class of concentrated siloxane-based electrolytes, demonstrating significantly improved performance over the widely investigated ether-based electrolytes are reported in terms of stabilizing the sulfur cathode and Li metal anode as well as minimizing flammability. Through a combination of experimental and computational investigation, it is found that siloxane solvents can effectively regulate a hidden solvation-ion-exchange process in the concentrated electrolytes that results from the interactions between cations/anions and solvents. As a result, it could invoke a quasi-solid-solid lithiation and enable reversible Li plating/stripping and robust solid-electrolyte interphase chemistries. The solvation-ion-exchange process in the concentrated electrolytes is a key factor in understanding and designing electrolytes for other high-energy lithium metal batteries.},
doi = {10.1002/aenm.202000968},
journal = {Advanced Energy Materials},
number = 28,
volume = 10,
place = {United States},
year = {2020},
month = {6}
}
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