Journal
ACS APPLIED ENERGY MATERIALS
Volume 4, Issue 2, Pages 1793-1804Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsaem.0c02928
Keywords
germanium nanowire; graphite; lithium-ion battery; full cell; wide temperature performance; temperature-controlled electrochemical amorphization
Funding
- Irish Research Council (IRC)
- Intel Ireland, under the IRC Enterprise Award Scheme [EPSPG/2017/233]
- SIRG [18/SIRG/5484]
- Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) under the Principal Investigator Program [16/IA/4629, SFI 16/M-ERA/3419]
- SFI Research Centres MaREI, AMBER [CONFIRM 12/RC/2278_P2, 12/RC/2302_P2, 16/RC/3918, IRCLA/2017/285]
- Irish Research Council (IRC) [EPSPG/2017/233] Funding Source: Irish Research Council (IRC)
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The electrochemical performance of Ge alloying anode nanowires in Li-ion full cells was analyzed at different temperatures, with electrolyte additives showing improvement in low-temperature performance and capacity fade inhibition. Alloying anodes in suitably configured electrolytes can deliver high performance at extreme temperature ranges.
The electrochemical performance of Ge, an alloying anode in the form of directly grown nanowires (NWs), in Li-ion full cells (vs LiCoO2) was analyzed over a wide temperature range (-40 to 40 degrees C). LiCoO2 parallel to Ge cells in a standard electrolyte exhibited specific capacities 30x and 50x those of LiCoO2 parallel to C cells at -20 and -40 degrees C, respectively. We further show that propylene carbonate addition further improved the low-temperature performance of LiCoO2 parallel to Ge cells, achieving a specific capacity of 1091 mA h g(-1) after 400 cycles when charged/discharged at -20 degrees C. At 40 degrees C, an additive mixture of ethyl methyl carbonate and lithium bis(oxalato)borate stabilized the capacity fade from 0.22 to 0.07% cycle(-1). Similar electrolyte additives in LiCoO2 parallel to C cells did not allow for any gains in performance. Interestingly, the capacity retention of LiCoO2 parallel to Ge improved at low temperatures due to delayed amorphization of crystalline NWs, suppressing complete lithiation and high-order Li15Ge4 phase formation. The results show that alloying anodes in suitably configured electrolytes can deliver high performance at the extremes of temperature ranges where electric vehicles operate, conditions that are currently not viable for commercial batteries without energy-inefficient temperature regulation.
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