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Huet L, Mazouzi D, Moreau P, Dupré N, Paris M, Mittelette S, Laurencin D, Devic T, Roué L, Lestriez B. Coordinatively Cross-Linked Binders for Silicon-Based Electrodes for Li-Ion Batteries: Beneficial Impact on Mechanical Properties and Electrochemical Performance. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2023; 15:15509-15524. [PMID: 36917122 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c00186] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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A simple and versatile preparation of Zn(II)-poly(carboxylates) reticulated binders by the addition of Zn(II) precursors (ZnSO4, ZnO, or Zn(NO3)2) into a preoptimized poly(carboxylic acids) binder solution is proposed. These binders lead systematically to a significantly improved electrochemical performance when used for the formulation of silicon-based negative electrodes. The formation of carboxylate-Zn(II) coordination bonds formation is investigated by rheology and FTIR and NMR spectroscopies. Mechanical characterizations reveal that the coordinated binder offers a better electrode coating cohesion and adhesion to the current collector, as well as higher hardness and elastic modulus, which are even preserved in the presence of a carbonate solvent (i.e., in battery operation conditions). Ultimately, as shown from operando dilatometry experiments, the electrode expansion during lithiation is reduced, mitigating electrode mechanical failure. Such coordinatively reticulated electrodes outperform their uncoordinated counterparts with an improved capacity retention of over 30% after 60 cycles.
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- Lucas Huet
- Institut des Matériaux de Nantes Jean Rouxel, IMN, Nantes Université, CNRS, Nantes F-44000, France
- Centre Énergie, Matériaux, Télécommunications (EMT), Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Varennes J3X 1S2, Canada
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- Materials, Natural Substances, Environment and Modeling Laboratory, Multidisciplinary Faculty of Taza, University of Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah, Fes 1223, Morocco
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- Institut des Matériaux de Nantes Jean Rouxel, IMN, Nantes Université, CNRS, Nantes F-44000, France
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- Institut des Matériaux de Nantes Jean Rouxel, IMN, Nantes Université, CNRS, Nantes F-44000, France
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- Institut des Matériaux de Nantes Jean Rouxel, IMN, Nantes Université, CNRS, Nantes F-44000, France
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- Institut des Matériaux de Nantes Jean Rouxel, IMN, Nantes Université, CNRS, Nantes F-44000, France
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- Centre Énergie, Matériaux, Télécommunications (EMT), Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Varennes J3X 1S2, Canada
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- Institut des Matériaux de Nantes Jean Rouxel, IMN, Nantes Université, CNRS, Nantes F-44000, France
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Wang Y, Ren L, Liu J, Lu X, Wang Q, Zhou M, Liu W, Sun X. In Situ Construction of Composite Artificial Solid Electrolyte Interphase for High-Performance Lithium Metal Batteries. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2022; 14:50982-50991. [PMID: 36322052 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c15662] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Lithium metal is considered as the most promising anode material for high energy density secondary batteries due to its high theoretical specific capacity and low redox potential. However, poor interfacial stability and uncontrollable dendrite growth seriously hinder the commercial application of Li metal anodes. Herein, we constructed a composite artificial solid-electrolyte interphase (ASEI) utilizing the in situ reaction between polyacrylic acid (PAA)/stannous fluoride (SnF2) and lithium metal, which spontaneously generates LiPAA, LiF, and Li5Sn2 alloys. The in situ formed LiPAA as a flexible matrix can accommodate the volume change of the lithium anode. Meanwhile, LiF and Li5Sn2 play the roles for improving the mechanical properties and boosting Li-ion flux in the interfacial layer, respectively. Benefiting from the ingenious design, the PAA-SnF2@Li anodes remain stable and dendrite-free morphology in symmetric cells for over 2000 h and exhibit excellent cycling stability in high-area loading (10.52 mg cm-2) Li||LiFePO4 full cells with a N/P of 1.68, which endures only 0.11% average capacity decay per cycle in 200 cycles. This simple and low-cost method supplies a route for the commercial application of lithium metal anodes with fresh eyes.
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- Yan Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, College of Chemistry, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, College of Chemistry, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, College of Chemistry, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, College of Chemistry, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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- Institute of Science and Technology, China Three Gorges Corporation, Beijing 100038, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, College of Chemistry, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Reaction Engineering and Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, College of Chemistry, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, College of Chemistry, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Soft Matter Science and Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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Huang J, Dai Q, Wu Q, Ren H, Lu X, Gu C, Zhang Y, Woo Joo S. Preparation of hollow SnO2@N-C nanospheres for high performance lithium-ion battery. J Electroanal Chem (Lausanne) 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jelechem.2022.116741] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/15/2022]
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Birrozzi A, Mullaliu A, Eisenmann T, Asenbauer J, Diemant T, Geiger D, Kaiser U, Oliveira de Souza D, Ashton TE, Groves AR, Darr JA, Passerini S, Bresser D. Synergistic Effect of Co and Mn Co-Doping on SnO2 Lithium-Ion Anodes. Inorganics 2022; 10:46. [DOI: 10.3390/inorganics10040046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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The incorporation of transition metals (TMs) such as Co, Fe, and Mn into SnO2 substantially improves the reversibility of the conversion and the alloying reaction when used as a negative electrode active material in lithium-ion batteries. Moreover, it was shown that the specific benefits of different TM dopants can be combined when introducing more than one dopant into the SnO2 lattice. Herein, a careful characterization of Co and Mn co-doped SnO2 via transmission electron microscopy coupled with energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction including Rietveld refinement is reported. Based on this in-depth investigation of the crystal structure and the distribution of the two TM dopants within the lattice, an ex situ X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and ex situ X-ray absorption spectroscopy were performed to better understand the de-/lithiation mechanism and the synergistic impact of the Co and Mn co-doping. The results specifically suggest that the antithetical redox behaviour of the two dopants might play a decisive role for the enhanced reversibility of the de-/lithiation reaction.
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Kreissl JJA, Petit J, Oppermann R, Cop P, Gerber T, Joos M, Abert M, Tübke J, Miyazaki K, Abe T, Schröder D. Electrochemical Lithiation/Delithiation of ZnO in 3D-Structured Electrodes: Elucidating the Mechanism and the Solid Electrolyte Interphase Formation. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2021; 13:35625-35638. [PMID: 34309361 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c06135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Conversion/alloy active materials, such as ZnO, are one of the most promising candidates to replace graphite anodes in lithium-ion batteries. Besides a high specific capacity (qZnO = 987 mAh g-1), ZnO offers a high lithium-ion diffusion and fast reaction kinetics, leading to a high-rate capability, which is required for the intended fast charging of battery electric vehicles. However, lithium-ion storage in ZnO is accompanied by the formation of lithium-rich solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) layers, immense volume expansion, and a large voltage hysteresis. Nonetheless, ZnO is appealing as an anode material for lithium-ion batteries and is investigated intensively. Surprisingly, the conclusions reported on the reaction mechanism are contradictory and the formation and composition of the SEI are addressed in only a few works. In this work, we investigate lithiation, delithiation, and SEI formation with ZnO in ether-based electrolytes for the first time reported in the literature. The combination of operando and ex situ experiments (cyclic voltammetry, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, coupled gas chromatography and mass spectrometry, differential electrochemical mass spectrometry, and scanning electron microscopy) clarifies the misunderstanding of the reaction mechanism. We evidence that the conversion and alloy reaction take place simultaneously inside the bulk of the electrode. Furthermore, we show that a two-layered SEI is formed on the surface. The SEI is decomposed reversibly upon cycling. In the end, we address the issue of the volume expansion and associated capacity fading by incorporating ZnO into a mesoporous carbon network. This approach reduces the capacity fading and yields cells with a specific capacity of above 500 mAh g-1 after 150 cycles.
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- Julian J A Kreissl
- Institute of Physical Chemistry, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 17, D-35392 Giessen, Germany
- Center for Materials Research (ZfM), Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 16, D-35392 Giessen, Germany
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- Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology ICT, Joseph-von-Fraunhofer-Straße 7, D-76327 Pfinztal, Germany
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 17, D-35392 Giessen, Germany
- Center for Materials Research (ZfM), Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 16, D-35392 Giessen, Germany
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 17, D-35392 Giessen, Germany
- Center for Materials Research (ZfM), Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Heinrich-Buff-Ring 16, D-35392 Giessen, Germany
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- Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology ICT, Joseph-von-Fraunhofer-Straße 7, D-76327 Pfinztal, Germany
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- Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology ICT, Joseph-von-Fraunhofer-Straße 7, D-76327 Pfinztal, Germany
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- Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology ICT, Joseph-von-Fraunhofer-Straße 7, D-76327 Pfinztal, Germany
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- Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology ICT, Joseph-von-Fraunhofer-Straße 7, D-76327 Pfinztal, Germany
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- Department of Energy & Hydrocarbon Chemistry, Kyoto University, Nishikyo-ku, 615-8510 Kyoto, Japan
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- Department of Energy & Hydrocarbon Chemistry, Kyoto University, Nishikyo-ku, 615-8510 Kyoto, Japan
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- Institute of Energy and Process Systems Engineering, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Langer Kamp 19B, D-38106 Braunschweig, Germany
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