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Title: Boosting Superior Lithium Storage Performance of Alloy-Based Anode Materials via Ultraconformal Sb Coating–Derived Favorable Solid-Electrolyte Interphase

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Abstract Alloy materials such as Si and Ge are attractive as high‐capacity anodes for rechargeable batteries, but such anodes undergo severe capacity degradation during discharge–charge processes. Compared to the over‐emphasized efforts on the electrode structure design to mitigate the volume changes, understanding and engineering of the solid‐electrolyte interphase (SEI) are significantly lacking. This work demonstrates that modifying the surface of alloy‐based anode materials by building an ultraconformal layer of Sb can significantly enhance their structural and interfacial stability during cycling. Combined experimental and theoretical studies consistently reveal that the ultraconformal Sb layer is dynamically converted to Li 3 Sb during cycling, which can selectively adsorb and catalytically decompose electrolyte additives to form a robust, thin, and dense LiF‐dominated SEI, and simultaneously restrain the decomposition of electrolyte solvents. Hence, the Sb‐coated porous Ge electrode delivers much higher initial Coulombic efficiency of 85% and higher reversible capacity of 1046 mAh g −1 after 200 cycles at 500 mA g −1 , compared to only 72% and 170 mAh g −1 for bare porous Ge. The present finding has indicated that tailoring surface structures of electrode materials is an appealing approach to construct a robust SEI and achieve long‐term cycling stability for alloy‐basedmore » anode materials.« less

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  1. Wuhan Univ. (China). College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences. Sauvage Center for Molecular Sciences
  2. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Center for Nanoscale Materials; Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States)
  3. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division
  4. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Center for Nanoscale Materials
  5. Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States)
  6. Xiamen Univ. (China)
  7. Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal Univ. (Saudi Arabia); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division; Stanford Univ., CA (United States)
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Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1605904
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1579426
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-06CH11357
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Advanced Energy Materials
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 10; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 1614-6832
Publisher:
Wiley
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
25 ENERGY STORAGE; anode materials; antimony; batteries; catalytic decomposition; solid electrolyte interphase

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Xiong, Bing‐Qing, Zhou, Xinwei, Xu, Gui‐Liang, Liu, Yuzi, Zhu, Likun, Hu, Youcheng, Shen, Shou‐Yu, Hong, Yu‐Hao, Wan, Si‐Cheng, Liu, Xiao‐Chen, Liu, Xiang, Chen, Shengli, Huang, Ling, Sun, Shi‐Gang, Amine, Khalil, and Ke, Fu‐Sheng. Boosting Superior Lithium Storage Performance of Alloy-Based Anode Materials via Ultraconformal Sb Coating–Derived Favorable Solid-Electrolyte Interphase. United States: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1002/aenm.201903186.
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Xiong, Bing‐Qing, Zhou, Xinwei, Xu, Gui‐Liang, Liu, Yuzi, Zhu, Likun, Hu, Youcheng, Shen, Shou‐Yu, Hong, Yu‐Hao, Wan, Si‐Cheng, Liu, Xiao‐Chen, Liu, Xiang, Chen, Shengli, Huang, Ling, Sun, Shi‐Gang, Amine, Khalil, & Ke, Fu‐Sheng. Boosting Superior Lithium Storage Performance of Alloy-Based Anode Materials via Ultraconformal Sb Coating–Derived Favorable Solid-Electrolyte Interphase. United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.201903186
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Xiong, Bing‐Qing, Zhou, Xinwei, Xu, Gui‐Liang, Liu, Yuzi, Zhu, Likun, Hu, Youcheng, Shen, Shou‐Yu, Hong, Yu‐Hao, Wan, Si‐Cheng, Liu, Xiao‐Chen, Liu, Xiang, Chen, Shengli, Huang, Ling, Sun, Shi‐Gang, Amine, Khalil, and Ke, Fu‐Sheng. Fri . "Boosting Superior Lithium Storage Performance of Alloy-Based Anode Materials via Ultraconformal Sb Coating–Derived Favorable Solid-Electrolyte Interphase". United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.201903186. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1605904.
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@article{osti_1605904,
title = {Boosting Superior Lithium Storage Performance of Alloy-Based Anode Materials via Ultraconformal Sb Coating–Derived Favorable Solid-Electrolyte Interphase},
author = {Xiong, Bing‐Qing and Zhou, Xinwei and Xu, Gui‐Liang and Liu, Yuzi and Zhu, Likun and Hu, Youcheng and Shen, Shou‐Yu and Hong, Yu‐Hao and Wan, Si‐Cheng and Liu, Xiao‐Chen and Liu, Xiang and Chen, Shengli and Huang, Ling and Sun, Shi‐Gang and Amine, Khalil and Ke, Fu‐Sheng},
abstractNote = {Abstract Alloy materials such as Si and Ge are attractive as high‐capacity anodes for rechargeable batteries, but such anodes undergo severe capacity degradation during discharge–charge processes. Compared to the over‐emphasized efforts on the electrode structure design to mitigate the volume changes, understanding and engineering of the solid‐electrolyte interphase (SEI) are significantly lacking. This work demonstrates that modifying the surface of alloy‐based anode materials by building an ultraconformal layer of Sb can significantly enhance their structural and interfacial stability during cycling. Combined experimental and theoretical studies consistently reveal that the ultraconformal Sb layer is dynamically converted to Li 3 Sb during cycling, which can selectively adsorb and catalytically decompose electrolyte additives to form a robust, thin, and dense LiF‐dominated SEI, and simultaneously restrain the decomposition of electrolyte solvents. Hence, the Sb‐coated porous Ge electrode delivers much higher initial Coulombic efficiency of 85% and higher reversible capacity of 1046 mAh g −1 after 200 cycles at 500 mA g −1 , compared to only 72% and 170 mAh g −1 for bare porous Ge. The present finding has indicated that tailoring surface structures of electrode materials is an appealing approach to construct a robust SEI and achieve long‐term cycling stability for alloy‐based anode materials.},
doi = {10.1002/aenm.201903186},
journal = {Advanced Energy Materials},
number = 4,
volume = 10,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Dec 13 00:00:00 EST 2019},
month = {Fri Dec 13 00:00:00 EST 2019}
}
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