Improvement of Hard Carbon Electrode Performance by Manipulating SEI Formation at High Charging Rates.

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2019
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Abstract
There is a growing demand for high-rate rechargeable batteries for powering electric vehicles and portable electronics. Here, we demonstrate a strategy for improving electrode performance by controlling the formation of solid electrolyte interphase (SEI). A composite electrode consisting of hard carbon (HC) and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) was used to study the formation of the SEI at different charging rates in an electrolyte consisting of 1 M NaClO in a mixed solvent with ethylene carbonate (EC) and propylene carbonate (PC), as well as fluoroethylene carbonate (FEC) additive. The half-cell method was used to form the SEI at different charging rates (e.g., 1, 10, and 100 A/g). Symmetric capacitor cells were employed to study ion transport properties through the SEI. It was found that the SEI is a primary factor responsible for limiting the capacity of the composite anode material in conventional ester-based electrolytes. The electrode with the SEI formed at 100 A/g exhibited the lowest impedance and delivered nearly twice the capacity of the electrode with the SEI formed at 1 A/g. This significant difference is due to a thin SEI formed at the fast charging rate, as has been observed with ether-based electrolytes. An identical decay rate (0.11 mA h/g per cycle) was observed on the electrodes with SEIs formed at different charging rates in an ester electrolyte. No chemical difference among the three SEI layers was found. However, morphological differences of the SEI layers were observed. This difference is believed to account for the different electrochemical behaviors of the electrodes. This work shows that high charging rates can result in the formation of an optimal SEI layer, contradicting the widely accepted practice of using low charging rates during the SEI formation in alkali-ion batteries.
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Authors Rangom, Yverick;Gaddam, Rohit R;Duignan, Timothy T;Zhao, X S;
Journal ACS applied materials & interfaces
Year 2019
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10.1021/acsami.9b07449
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electrolyte hard carbon rate capability sodium-ion battery solid electrolyte interface

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