Development of lithium ion conducting interface between lithium metal and a lithium ion conducting ceramic using block polymers
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
The lithium-air (Li-air) technology developed by EDF uses an air electrode which works with an aqueous electrolyte, which prevent the use of unprotected lithium metal electrode. A Li+ ionic conductor glass ceramic is used to separate the aqueous electrolyte compartment from the negative lithium electrode. However, this glass-ceramic is not stable in contact with lithium, it is thus necessary to add a protective buffer layer. In another hand, this protection should ideally resist to lithium dendritic growth. It is in this context that this research project which has as goal the development of a protective buffer layer based on block copolymer electrolytes (BCE) between the lithium metal and the lithium ionic conductor ceramic, for lithium-air battery. In a first part, the BCE is studied in lithium-lithium symmetric cells, in order to determine their electrochemical properties such as ionic conductivity, steady state transference number, and finally their resistance to dendritic growth during cycling. Several characterization techniques were employed and especially hard X-ray micro-tomography to analyze the lithium morphology before and after cycling. For single-ion BCE, we expect to suppress dendritic growth, however, we report here for the first time, the visualization of a homogeneous growth of lithium but the formation of dense lithium objects. In another part, the composite BCE-ceramic is studied by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). The cycling of lithium-composite-lithium symmetric cells and the analysis of the EIS measurement after each cycle permit to determine if the dendrites have cross the protective layer and are in contact with the ceramic. Besides, the quantification of the polarization loss at the interface polymer-ceramic is evaluated by polarization experiments. This contribution is found to be small.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Electricite de France (EDF), Paris (France)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231
- OSTI ID:
- 1615376
- Report Number(s):
- LBNL-2001303; LBNL-CRADA-AWD00000078
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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