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JOURNAL OF THE ELECTROCHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 164, Issue 1, Pages A6095-A6102Publisher
ELECTROCHEMICAL SOC INC
DOI: 10.1149/2.0131701jes
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- Galo Foundation
- Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences
- Office of Vehicle Technologies at the U.S. Department of Energy
- U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science laboratory [DE-AC02-06CH11357]
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The electrochemical performance of cells with a Li-1.03(Ni0.5Co0.2Mn0.3)(0.97)O-2 (NCM523) positive electrode and a blended silicon-graphite (Si-Gr) negative electrode are investigated using various electrolyte compositions and voltage cycling windows. Voltage profiles of the blended Si-Gr electrode show a superposition of graphite potential plateaus on a sloped Si profile with a large potential hysteresis. The effect of this hysteresis is seen in the cell impedance versus voltage data, which are distinctly different for the charge and discharge cycles. We confirm that the addition of compounds, such as vinylene carbonate (VC) and fluoroethylene carbonate (FEC) to the baseline 1.2 M LiPF6 in ethylene carbonate (EC): ethyl methyl carbonate (EMC) (3: 7 w/w) electrolyte, improves cell capacity retention with higher retention seen at higher additive contents. We show that reducing the lower cutoff voltage (LCV) of full cells to 2.5 V increases the Si-Gr electrode potential to 1.12 V vs. Li/Li+; this relatively-high delithiation potential correlates with the lower capacity retention displayed by the cell. Furthermore, we show that raising the upper cutoff voltage (UCV) can increase cell energy density without significantly altering capacity retention over 100 charge-discharge cycles. (C) The Author(s) 2016. Published by ECS. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (CC BY, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse of the work in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. All rights reserved.
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