Journal
JOULE
Volume 3, Issue 8, Pages 2001-2019Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.joule.2019.05.026
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- U.S. Department of Energy's Vehicle Technologies Office under the Silicon Electrolyte Interface Stabilization (SEISta) Consortium
- U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC05-00OR22725]
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We employ tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (TERS) to study model amorphous silicon (a-Si) thin film anodes galvanostatically cycled for different numbers. For the 13 cycled a-Si, TERS shows good correlation between solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) topography and chemical mapping, corresponding to distribution of lithium ethylene dicarbonate (LEDC) and poly (ethylene oxide) (PEO)-like oligomer species. Subsequent electrochemical cycling makes the SEI relatively thick and rough with the chemical composition heavily dominated by LEDC monomer-dimer for 53 cycled a-Si. For 20x cycled a-Si, the TERS signal is dominated by carboxylate (RCO2Li) compounds of various conformations and fluorinated species (LixPOyFz). A nanomosaic-multilayer hybrid SEI model on top of the a-Si anode is proposed. The significance of this work is applicable not only to silicon, where SEI plays a dominant role in determining the cycle life performance and reversibility, but also for a number of other relevant battery chemistries such as Na-ion and multivalent redox systems.
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