scholarly journals A cost-effective and humidity-tolerant chloride solid electrolyte for lithium batteries

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kai Wang ◽  
Qingyong Ren ◽  
Zhenqi Gu ◽  
Chaomin Duan ◽  
Jinzhu Wang ◽  
...  

AbstractLi-ion-conducting chloride solid electrolytes receive considerable attention due to their physicochemical characteristics such as high ionic conductivity, deformability and oxidative stability. However, the raw materials are expensive, and large-scale use of this class of inorganic superionic conductors seems unlikely. Here, a cost-effective chloride solid electrolyte, Li2ZrCl6, is reported. Its raw materials are several orders of magnitude cheaper than those for the state-of-the-art chloride solid electrolytes, but high ionic conductivity (0.81 mS cm–1 at room temperature), deformability, and compatibility with 4V-class cathodes are still simultaneously achieved in Li2ZrCl6. Moreover, Li2ZrCl6 demonstrates a humidity tolerance with no sign of moisture uptake or conductivity degradation after exposure to an atmosphere with 5% relative humidity. By combining Li2ZrCl6 with the Li-In anode and the single-crystal LiNi0.8Mn0.1Co0.1O2 cathode, we report a room-temperature all-solid-state cell with a stable specific capacity of about 150 mAh g–1 for 200 cycles at 200 mA g–1.

2021 ◽  
pp. 2140002
Author(s):  
Mingxia Fan ◽  
Xiangyu Deng ◽  
Anqiao Zheng ◽  
Songdong Yuan

NASICON-type Li[Formula: see text]Al[Formula: see text]Ti[Formula: see text](PO[Formula: see text] (LATP) solid electrolytes have been widely studied because of its stability in the air, low material price and high ionic conductivity. Gd-doped Li[Formula: see text]Al[Formula: see text]Gd[Formula: see text]Ti[Formula: see text](PO[Formula: see text] ([Formula: see text]= 0, 0.025, 0.05, 0.075 and 0.1) with high ionic conductivity was successfully synthesized by solvothermal method for the first time in this work. The effect of Gd doping content on the structure and electrochemical performance of solid electrolytes was systematically studied. The optimal doping content of Gd is [Formula: see text]= 0.075. With the Gd doping content of 0.075, the solid electrolyte has the highest ionic conductivity of 4.23 × 10[Formula: see text] S cm[Formula: see text] at room temperature, the lowest activation energy of 0.247 eV and the highest relative density of 94.89%. This is because the fact that when [Formula: see text]= 0.075, it is the maximum content of Gd[Formula: see text] to replace Al[Formula: see text] and can completely enter the lattice of LATP, and does not emerge too much non-lithium ion conductive GdPO4 phase.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianwen Liang ◽  
Eveline van der Maas ◽  
Jing Luo ◽  
Xiaona Li ◽  
Ning Chen ◽  
...  

Abstract Understanding the relationship between structure, ionic conductivity, and synthesis is the key to the development of solid electrolytes for all-solid-state Lithium batteries. Here, we investigate chloride solid electrolytes with compositions Li3 − 3xM1+xCl6 (-0.14 < x ≤ 0.5, M = Tb, Dy, Ho, Y, Er, Tm). When x > 0.04, a trigonal to orthorhombic phase transition occurs in the isostructural Li-Dy-Cl, Li-Ho-Cl, Li-Y-Cl, Li-Er-Cl and Li-Tm-Cl solid electrolytes. The new orthorhombic phase shows a four-fold increase in ionic conductivity up to 1.3×10− 3 S cm− 1 at room temperature for Li2.73Ho1.09Cl6 (x = 0.09) when compared to the trigonal Li3HoCl6. For isostructural Li-Dy-Cl, Li-Y-Cl, Li-Er-Cl and Li-Tm-Cl solid electrolytes, about one order of magnitude increase in ionic conductivities are observed for the orthorhombic structure compared to the trigonal structure. Using the Li-Ho-Cl components as an example, detailed studies of its structure, phase transition, ionic conductivity, air stability and electrochemical stability have been made. Molecular dynamics simulations based on density functional theory reveal that the different cations arrangement in the orthorhombic structure leads to a higher lithium diffusivity as compared to the trigonal structure, rationalizing the improved ionic conductivities of the new Li-M-Cl electrolytes. All-solid-state batteries of In/Li2.73Ho1.09Cl6/NMC811 demonstrate excellent electrochemical performance at both room temperature and − 10°C. As relevant to the vast number of isostructural halide electrolytes, the present structure control strategy provides guidance for the design of novel halide superionic conductors.


Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (21) ◽  
pp. 6946
Author(s):  
Bin Zhao ◽  
Qi Wang ◽  
Boheng Yuan ◽  
Yafei Lu ◽  
Xiaogang Han

Solid-state plastic crystal electrolytes (SPCEs) have attracted much attention due to their high ionic conductivity at room temperature and polymer-like plasticity. Herein, we made a LiFePO4||Li solid state battery based on SPCEs. A SPCE film is made up of glass fiber, succinonitrile (SN), lithium bis (triflu-romethanesulphonyl) imid (LiTFSI), and LiNO3. Glass fiber is introduced to improve the mechanical property, and LiNO3 served as an additive to stabilize electrolyte/Li interface. The SPCE film delivers a high ionic conductivity of 7.3 × 10−4 S cm−1 at room temperature and has excellent stability with Li-metal anode. SPCE is also infused into cathode electrode and used as the interface with cathode particles, which can access a large interface contact area and deform reversibly with volume change. The LiFePO4||Li solid state battery based on SPCE can work well at ambient temperature, which shows a high initial specific capacity of 121.4 mAh g−1 and has 86.9% retention after 90 cycles at 0.5 C.


Nanoscale ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Han Wang ◽  
Genfu Zhao ◽  
Shimin Wang ◽  
Dangling Liu ◽  
Zhi-Yuan Mei ◽  
...  

NASICON-type Na3Zr2Si2PO12 (NZSP) is supposed to be one of the most potential solid electrolytes with the characteristics of high ionic conductivity and safety for solid-state sodium batteries. Many methods have...


1990 ◽  
Vol 210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Wenhai ◽  
Liu Wanyu

AbstractMontmorillonite(Mont) has been proved to be a kind of very promising solid electrolyte in recent years because of its good electric properties. It can be composed by polymer to prepare a mont-polymer complex which has high ionic conductivity and excellent plasticity. The film made of mont-polymer complex with room temperature ionic conduction has been used in solid state battery as solid electrolyte. It may be a new type of function material with futher application.


2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (47) ◽  
pp. 20271-20279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dawei Wang ◽  
Guiming Zhong ◽  
Oleksandr Dolotko ◽  
Yixiao Li ◽  
Matthew J. McDonald ◽  
...  

The cubic garnet-type solid electrolyte Li7La3Zr2O12 with aliovalent doping exhibits a high ionic conductivity.


2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 2717-2722 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhuoran Zhang ◽  
Yulong Sun ◽  
Xianbao Duan ◽  
Linfeng Peng ◽  
Huanhuan Jia ◽  
...  

Cation doping in Li7PS6 to stabilize the HT argyrodite phase with high ionic conductivity and good compatibility with Li metal.


2021 ◽  
Vol 340 ◽  
pp. 01046
Author(s):  
Artem Ulihin ◽  
Olga Protazanova

Superionic solid electrolyte Ag16I12P2O7 was prepared using solid state synthesis. The ionic conductivity of this compound was studied by the complex impedance spectroscopy method in a wide temperature range. It is shown that Ag16I12P2O7 is characterized by a high ionic conductivity at room temperature, comparable to the conductivity of liquid electrolytes.


Nanoscale ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Feihu Tan ◽  
Hua An ◽  
Ning Li ◽  
Jun Du ◽  
Zhengchun Peng

As flexible all-solid-state batteries are highly safe and lightweight, they can be considered as candidates for wearable energy sources. However, their performance needs to be first improved, which can be...


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