Thermal Decomposition of the Solid Electrolyte Interphase (SEI) on Silicon Electrodes for Lithium Ion Batteries

Yoon, Taeho; Milien, Mickdy S.; Parimalam, Bharathy S.; Lucht, Brett L.

doi:10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b00454

Title: Thermal Decomposition of the Solid Electrolyte Interphase (SEI) on Silicon Electrodes for Lithium Ion Batteries

Journal Article · Fri Mar 17 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Chemistry of Materials

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b00454· OSTI ID:1534459

Yoon, Taeho ^[1]; Milien, Mickdy S. ^[1]; Parimalam, Bharathy S. ^[1];

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Univ. of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI (United States)

Here, thermal behavior of the solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) on a silicon electrode for lithium ion batteries has been investigated by TGA. In order to provide a better understanding of the thermal decomposition of the SEI on silicon, the thermal decomposition behavior of independently synthesized lithium ethylene dicarbonate (LEDC) was investigated as a model SEI. The model SEI (LEDC) has three stages of thermal decomposition. Over the temperature range of 50–300 °C, LEDC decomposes to evolve CO₂ and C₂H₄ gases leaving lithium propionate (CH₃CH₂CO₂Li) and Li₂CO₃ as solid residues. The lithium propionate decomposes over the temperature range of 300–600 °C to evolve pentanone leaving Li₂CO₃ as a residual solid. Finally, the Li₂CO₃ decomposes over 600 °C to evolve CO₂ leaving Li₂O as a residual solid. A very similar thermal decomposition process is observed for the SEI generated on cycled silicon electrodes. However, two additional thermal decomposition reactions were observed characteristic of Li_xPO_yF_z at 300 °C and the polyimide binder at 550 °C. TGA measurements of Si electrodes after various numbers of cycles suggest that the LEDC on Si electrodes thermally decomposes during cycling to form lithium propionate and Li₂CO₃, resulting in increased complexity of the SEI.

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Research Organization:: Brown Univ., Providence, RI (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

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OSTI ID:: 1534459

Journal Information:: Chemistry of Materials, Vol. 29, Issue 7; ISSN 0897-4756

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