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Abrha LH, Hagos TT, Nikodimos Y, Bezabh HK, Berhe GB, Hagos TM, Huang CJ, Tegegne WA, Jiang SK, Weldeyohannes HH, Wu SH, Su WN, Hwang BJ. Dual-Doped Cubic Garnet Solid Electrolytes with Superior Air Stability. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2020; 12:25709-25717. [PMID: 32407073 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c01289] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
Abstract
Li7La3Zr2O12 (LLZO) garnet is one kind of solid electrolyte drawing extensive attention due to its good ionic conductivity, safety, and stability toward lithium metal anodes. However, the stability problem during synthesis and storage results in high interfacial resistance and prevents it from practical applications. We synthesized air-stable dual-doped Li6.05La3Ga0.3Zr1.95Nb0.05O12 ((Ga, Nb)-LLZO) cubic-phase garnets with ionic conductivity of 9.28 × 10-3 S cm-1. The impurity-phase species formation on the garnet pellets after air exposure was investigated. LiOH and Li2CO3 can be observed on the garnet pellets by Raman spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction (XRD), and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) once the garnets are exposed to humid air or come in contact with water. The (Ga, Nb)-LLZO garnet is found to form less LiOH and Li2CO3, which can be further reduced or removed after drying treatment. To confirm the stability of the garnet, an electrochemical test of the Li//Li symmetric cell was also performed in comparison with previously reported garnets (Li7La2.75Ca0.25Zr1.75Nb0.25O12, (Ca, Nb)-LLZO). The dual-doped (Ga, Nb)-LLZO showed less polarized and stable plating/stripping behavior than (Ca, Nb)-LLZO. Through Rietveld refinement of XRD patterns of prepared materials, dopant Ga was found to preferably occupy the Li site and Nb takes the Zr site, while dopant Ca mainly substituted La in the reference sample. The inherited properties of the dopants in (Ga, Nb)-LLZO and their structural synergy explain the greatly improved air stability and reduced interfacial resistance. This may open a new direction to realize garnet-based solid electrolytes with lower interfacial resistance and superior air stability.
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Affiliation(s)
- Ljalem Hadush Abrha
- Nano-electrochemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei 106, Taiwan
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- Nano-electrochemistry Laboratory, Graduate Institute of Applied Science and Technology, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei 106, Taiwan
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- Nano-electrochemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei 106, Taiwan
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- Nano-electrochemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei 106, Taiwan
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- Nano-electrochemistry Laboratory, Graduate Institute of Applied Science and Technology, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei 106, Taiwan
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- Nano-electrochemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei 106, Taiwan
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- Nano-electrochemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei 106, Taiwan
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- Nano-electrochemistry Laboratory, Graduate Institute of Applied Science and Technology, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei 106, Taiwan
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- Nano-electrochemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei 106, Taiwan
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- Nano-electrochemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei 106, Taiwan
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- Nano-electrochemistry Laboratory, Graduate Institute of Applied Science and Technology, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei 106, Taiwan
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- Nano-electrochemistry Laboratory, Graduate Institute of Applied Science and Technology, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei 106, Taiwan
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- Nano-electrochemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei 106, Taiwan
- Applied Research Center for Thin-Film Metallic Glass, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei 106, Taiwan
- National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center (NSRRC), Hsin-Chu 30076, Taiwan
- Sustainable Energy Development Center, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei 106, Taiwan
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Bezabh HK, Tsai MC, Hagos TT, Beyene TT, Berhe GB, Hagos TM, Abrha LH, Chiu SF, Su WN, Hwang BJ. Roles of film-forming additives in diluted and concentrated electrolytes for lithium metal batteries: A density functional theory-based approach. Electrochem commun 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.elecom.2020.106685] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022] Open
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Abrha LH, Zegeye TA, Hagos TT, Sutiono H, Hagos TM, Berhe GB, Huang CJ, Jiang SK, Su WN, Yang YW, Hwang BJ. Li7La2.75Ca0.25Zr1.75Nb0.25O12@LiClO4 composite film derived solid electrolyte interphase for anode-free lithium metal battery. Electrochim Acta 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2019.134825] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Hagos TM, Berhe GB, Hagos TT, Bezabh HK, Abrha LH, Beyene TT, Huang CJ, Yang YW, Su WN, Dai H, Hwang BJ. Dual electrolyte additives of potassium hexafluorophosphate and tris (trimethylsilyl) phosphite for anode-free lithium metal batteries. Electrochim Acta 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2019.05.061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Hagos TT, Thirumalraj B, Huang CJ, Abrha LH, Hagos TM, Berhe GB, Bezabh HK, Cherng J, Chiu SF, Su WN, Hwang BJ. Locally Concentrated LiPF 6 in a Carbonate-Based Electrolyte with Fluoroethylene Carbonate as a Diluent for Anode-Free Lithium Metal Batteries. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2019; 11:9955-9963. [PMID: 30789250 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b21052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
Abstract
Currently, concentrated electrolyte solutions are attracting special attention because of their unique characteristics such as unusually improved oxidative stability on both the cathode and anode sides, the absence of free solvent, the presence of more anion content, and the improved availability of Li+ ions. Most of the concentrated electrolytes reported are lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide (LiFSI) salt with ether-based solvents because of the high solubility of salts in ether-based solvents. However, their poor anti-oxidation capability hindered their application especially with high potential cathode materials (>4.0 V). In addition, the salt is very costly, so it is not feasible from the cost analysis point of view. Therefore, here we report a locally concentrated electrolyte, 2 M LiPF6, in ethylene carbonate/diethyl carbonate (1:1 v/v ratio) diluted with fluoroethylene carbonate (FEC), which is stable within a wide potential range (2.5-4.5 V). It shows significant improvement in cycling stability of lithium with an average Coulombic efficiency (ACE) of ∼98% and small voltage hysteresis (∼30 mV) with a current density of 0.2 mA/cm2 for over 1066 h in Li||Cu cells. Furthermore, we ascertained the compatibility of the electrolyte for anode-free Li-metal batteries (AFLMBs) using Cu||LiNi1/3Mn1/3Co1/3O2 (NMC, ∼2 mA h/cm2) with a current density of 0.2 mA/cm2. It shows stable cyclic performance with ACE of 97.8 and 40% retention capacity at the 50th cycle, which is the best result reported for carbonate-based solvents with AFLMBs. However, the commercial carbonate-based electrolyte has <90% ACE and even cannot proceed more than 15 cycles with retention capacity >40%. The enhanced cycle life and well retained in capacity of the locally concentrated electrolyte is mainly because of the synergetic effect of FEC as the diluent to increase the ionic conductivity and form stable anion-derived solid electrolyte interphase. The locally concentrated electrolyte also shows high robustness to the effect of upper limit cutoff voltage.
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- Amita Technologies Inc. , Taoyuan County 33349 , Taiwan
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- National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center , Hsin-Chu 300 , Taiwan
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