Journal
BATTERIES-BASEL
Volume 8, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/batteries8060054
Keywords
water-soluble polymer; conductive binder; bifunctional; silicon anode; Li-ion batteries
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21905017]
- Distinguished Scientist Program at BUCT [buctylkxj02]
- Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities [buctrc202007]
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The study develops a novel water-soluble bifunctional binder composed of a conductive polythiophene polymer and high-adhesive polyacrylic acid, which can solve the issues caused by huge volume changes of high-capacity anodes and insufficient electrical contact. The composite binder provides an integral conductive network and an integral electrode structure, resulting in stable electrochemical performance for high-capacity anodes in high-energy batteries.
The design of novel and high-performance binder systems is an efficient strategy to resolve the issues caused by huge volume changes of high-capacity anodes. Herein, we develop a novel water-soluble bifunctional binder composed of a conductive polythiophene polymer (PED) and high-adhesive polyacrylic acid (PAA) with abundant polar groups. Compared with conventional conductive additives, the flexible conductive polymer can solve the insufficient electrical contact between active materials and the conductive agent, thus providing the integral conductive network, which is extremely important for stable electrochemical performance. Additionally, the polar groups of this composite binder can form double H-bond interactions with the hydroxyl groups of SiO2 layers onto the silicon surface, keeping an integral electrode structure, which can decrease the continuous formation of SEI films during the repeated cycles. Benefiting from these bifunctional advantages, the Si electrodes with the composite binder delivered a high reversible capacity of 2341 mAh g(-1) at 1260 mA g(-1), good cycle stability with 88.8% retention of the initial reversible capacity over 100 cycles, and high-rate capacity (1150 mAh g(-1) at 4200 mA g(-1)). This work opens up a new venture to develop multifunctional binders to enable the stable operation of high-capacity anodes for high-energy batteries.
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