An efficient Lithium-metal Battery Based on Graphene Oxide-Modified Heat Resistant Gel Polymer Electrolyte with Superior Cycling Stability and Excellent Rate Capability

Author(s):  
XiaoXiao Wang ◽  
Huijuan Zhao ◽  
Nanping Deng ◽  
Yanan Li ◽  
Ruru Yu ◽  
...  

Lithium-metal battery has revived increasing attention and research on account of the growing demands for high-energy electrical energy storage, but the unsatisfied cycling stability and service safety have greatly limited...

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shouxiang Ding ◽  
Mingzheng Zhang ◽  
Runzhi Qin ◽  
Jianjun Fang ◽  
Hengyu Ren ◽  
...  

AbstractRecent years have witnessed a booming interest in grid-scale electrochemical energy storage, where much attention has been paid to the aqueous zinc ion batteries (AZIBs). Among various cathode materials for AZIBs, manganese oxides have risen to prominence due to their high energy density and low cost. However, sluggish reaction kinetics and poor cycling stability dictate against their practical application. Herein, we demonstrate the combined use of defect engineering and interfacial optimization that can simultaneously promote rate capability and cycling stability of MnO2 cathodes. β-MnO2 with abundant oxygen vacancies (VO) and graphene oxide (GO) wrapping is synthesized, in which VO in the bulk accelerate the charge/discharge kinetics while GO on the surfaces inhibits the Mn dissolution. This electrode shows a sustained reversible capacity of ~ 129.6 mAh g−1 even after 2000 cycles at a current rate of 4C, outperforming the state-of-the-art MnO2-based cathodes. The superior performance can be rationalized by the direct interaction between surface VO and the GO coating layer, as well as the regulation of structural evolution of β-MnO2 during cycling. The combinatorial design scheme in this work offers a practical pathway for obtaining high-rate and long-life cathodes for AZIBs.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Zheng ◽  
Feng Guo ◽  
Tuo Kang ◽  
Yingzhu Fan ◽  
Wei Gu ◽  
...  

AbstractLithium metal is regarded as the ultimate negative electrode material for secondary batteries due to its high energy density. However, it suffers from poor cycling stability because of its high reactivity with liquid electrolytes. Therefore, continuous efforts have been put into improving the cycling Coulombic efficiency (CE) to extend the lifespan of the lithium metal negative electrode. Herein, we report that using dual-salt additives of LiPF6 and LiNO3 in an ether solvent-based electrolyte can significantly improve the cycling stability and rate capability of a Li-carbon (Li-CNT) composite. As a result, an average cycling CE as high as 99.30% was obtained for the Li-CNT at a current density of 2.5 mA cm–2 and an negative electrode to positive electrode capacity (N/P) ratio of 2. The cycling stability and rate capability enhancement of the Li-CNT negative electrode could be attributed to the formation of a better solid electrolyte interphase layer that contains both inorganic components and organic polyether. The former component mainly originates from the decomposition of the LiNO3 additive, while the latter comes from the LiPF6-induced ring-opening polymerization of the ether solvent. This novel surface chemistry significantly improves the CE of Li negative electrode, revealing its importance for the practical application of lithium metal batteries.


Author(s):  
Can Liao ◽  
Longfei Han ◽  
Na Wu ◽  
Xiaowei Mu ◽  
Yuan Hu ◽  
...  

Lithium (Li) metal batteries, as the ultimate goal of high energy density storage devices, have been regarded as a suitable candidate for next-generation electrical energy storage. Nevertheless, uncontrolled lithium dendrites...


2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (38) ◽  
pp. 18479-18487 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuanyuan Cheng ◽  
Lan Zhang ◽  
Song Xu ◽  
Haitao Zhang ◽  
Baozeng Ren ◽  
...  

The reported novel gel polymer electrolyte can stabilize lithium deposition, thus enhancing the safety and rate capability by reducing the anion mobility in Li/LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4 cells.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Urbi Pal ◽  
Fangfang Chen ◽  
Derick Gyabang ◽  
Thushan Pathirana ◽  
Binayak Roy ◽  
...  

We explore a novel ether aided superconcentrated ionic liquid electrolyte; a combination of ionic liquid, <i>N</i>-propyl-<i>N</i>-methylpyrrolidinium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide (C<sub>3</sub>mpyrFSI) and ether solvent, <i>1,2</i> dimethoxy ethane (DME) with 3.2 mol/kg LiFSI salt, which offers an alternative ion-transport mechanism and improves the overall fluidity of the electrolyte. The molecular dynamics (MD) study reveals that the coordination environment of lithium in the ether aided ionic liquid system offers a coexistence of both the ether DME and FSI anion simultaneously and the absence of ‘free’, uncoordinated DME solvent. These structures lead to very fast kinetics and improved current density for lithium deposition-dissolution processes. Hence the electrolyte is used in a lithium metal battery against a high mass loading (~12 mg/cm<sup>2</sup>) LFP cathode which was cycled at a relatively high current rate of 1mA/cm<sup>2</sup> for 350 cycles without capacity fading and offered an overall coulombic efficiency of >99.8 %. Additionally, the rate performance demonstrated that this electrolyte is capable of passing current density as high as 7mA/cm<sup>2</sup> without any electrolytic decomposition and offers a superior capacity retention. We have also demonstrated an ‘anode free’ LFP-Cu cell which was cycled over 50 cycles and achieved an average coulombic efficiency of 98.74%. The coordination chemistry and (electro)chemical understanding as well as the excellent cycling stability collectively leads toward a breakthrough in realizing the practical applicability of this ether aided ionic liquid electrolytes in lithium metal battery applications, while delivering high energy density in a prototype cell.


2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi-Chen Yin ◽  
Zhi-Long Yu ◽  
Zhi-Yuan Ma ◽  
Tian-Wen Zhang ◽  
Yu-Yang Lu ◽  
...  

Abstract Lithium metal is one of the most promising anode materials for high-energy-density Li batteries. However, low stability caused by dendrite growth and volume change during cycling hinders its practical application. Herein, we report an ingenious design of bio-inspired low-tortuosity carbon with tunable vertical micro-channels to be used as a host to incorporate nanosized Sn/Ni alloy nucleation sites, which can guide Li metal's plating/stripping and meanwhile accommodate the volume change. The pore sizes of the vertical channels of the carbon host can be regulated to investigate the structure–performance correlation. After compositing Li, the bio-inspired carbon host with the smallest pore size (∼14 μm) of vertical channels exhibits the lowest overpotential (∼18 mV at 1 mA cm−2), most stable tripping/plating voltage profiles, and best cycling stability (up to 500 cycles) in symmetrical cells. Notably, the carbon/Li composite anode is more rewarding than Li foil when coupled with LiFePO4 in full cells, exhibiting a much lower polarization effect, better rate capability and higher capacity retention (90.6% after 120 cycles). This novel bio-inspired design of a low-tortuosity carbon host with nanoalloy coatings may open a new avenue for fabricating advanced Li-metal batteries with high performance.


2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 362-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bin Luo ◽  
Tengfei Qiu ◽  
Long Hao ◽  
Bin Wang ◽  
Meihua Jin ◽  
...  

3D graphene-templated tin-based foams with tunable pore structures and uniform carbon coating have been successfully developed, achieving superior cycling stability and rate capability for lithium ion storage.


2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (8) ◽  
pp. 2507-2518 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liton Balo ◽  
Himani Gupta ◽  
Shishir K. Singh ◽  
Varun K. Singh ◽  
Alok K. Tripathi ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 171186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guofu Ma ◽  
Fengting Hua ◽  
Kanjun Sun ◽  
Enke Fenga ◽  
Hui Peng ◽  
...  

The electrochemical performance of an energy conversion and storage device like the supercapacitor mainly depends on the microstructure and morphology of the electrodes. In this paper, to improve the capacitance performance of the supercapacitor, the all-pseudocapacitive electrodes of lamella-like Bi 18 SeO 29 /BiSe as the negative electrode and flower-like Co 0.85 Se nanosheets as the positive electrode are synthesized by using a facile low-temperature one-step hydrothermal method. The microstructures and morphology of the electrode materials are carefully characterized, and the capacitance performances are also tested. The Bi 18 SeO 29 /BiSe and Co 0.85 Se have high specific capacitance (471.3 F g –1 and 255 F g –1 at 0.5 A g –1 ), high conductivity, outstanding cycling stability, as well as good rate capability. The assembled asymmetric supercapacitor completely based on the pseudocapacitive electrodes exhibits outstanding cycling stability (about 93% capacitance retention after 5000 cycles). Moreover, the devices exhibit high energy density of 24.2 Wh kg –1 at a power density of 871.2 W kg –1 in the voltage window of 0–1.6 V with 2 M KOH solution.


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