Dramatic Effects of Fullerene Soot Additives on the Electrochemical Cycling Behavior of Graphite Anodes

2006 ◽  
Vol 153 (10) ◽  
pp. A1880
Author(s):  
Robert E. Doe ◽  
Michael J. Erickson ◽  
Louis J. Rendek ◽  
Michael J. Wagner
2009 ◽  
Vol 156 (8) ◽  
pp. A652 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. V. Reddy ◽  
S. Sundar Manoharan ◽  
Jimmy John ◽  
Brajendra Singh ◽  
G. V. Subba Rao ◽  
...  

2012 ◽  
Vol 62 ◽  
pp. 256-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Honghe Zheng ◽  
Lili Chai ◽  
Xiangyun Song ◽  
Vince Battaglia

2016 ◽  
Vol 301 ◽  
pp. 299-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuang Wang ◽  
Ben Hsia ◽  
John P. Alper ◽  
Carlo Carraro ◽  
Zhe Wang ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Brian T Heligman ◽  
Kevin P Scanlan ◽  
Arumugam Manthiram

Abstract Tin foils have an impressive lithium-storage capacity more than triple that of graphite anodes, and their adoption could facilitate a drastic improvement in battery energy density. However, implementation of a dense foil electrode architecture represents a significant departure from the standard blade-cast geometry with a distinct electrochemical environment, and this has led to confusion with regards to the first cycle efficiency of the system. In this work, we investigate the unique behavior of a tin active material in a foil architecture to understand its performance as an anode. We find shallow cycling of the foil results in an irreversible formation (< 40 %) due to diffusional trapping, but intermediate and complete utilization allows for a remarkably reversible formation reaction (> 90 %). This striking nonlinearity stems from an in-situ transformation from bulk metal to porous electrode that occurs during formation cycles and defines electrode-level lithium-transport on subsequent cycles. An alternative cycling procedure for assessing the stability of foils is proposed to account for this chemomechanical effect.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Pearce ◽  
Gaurav Assat ◽  
Antonella Iadecola ◽  
François Fauth ◽  
Rémi Dedryvère ◽  
...  

The recent discovery of anionic redox as a means to increase the energy density of transition metal oxide positive electrodes is now a well established approach in the Li-ion battery field. However, the science behind this new phenomenon pertaining to various Li-rich materials is still debated. Thus, it is of paramount importance to develop a robust set of analytical techniques to address this issue. Herein, we use a suite of synchrotron-based X-ray spectroscopies as well as diffraction techniques to thoroughly characterize the different redox processes taking place in a model Li-rich compound, the tridimentional hyperhoneycomb β-Li2IrO3. We clearly establish that the reversible removal of Li+ from this compound is associated to a previously described reductive coupling mechanism and the formation of the M-(O-O) and M-(O-O)* states. We further show that the respective contributions to these states determine the spectroscopic response for both Ir L3-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) and X-ray photoemissions spectroscopy (XPS). Although the high covalency and the robust tridimentional structure of this compound enable a high degree of reversibile delithiation, we found that pushing the limits of this charge compensation mechanism has significant effects on the local as well as average structure, leading to electrochemical instability over cycling and voltage decay. Overall, this work highlights the practical limits to which anionic redox can be exploited and sheds some light on the nature of the oxidized species formed in certain lithium-rich compounds.<br>


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