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JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES
Volume 145, Issue 1, Pages 82-88Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2004.12.035
Keywords
electrolyte; imidazolium; ionic liquid; lithium; battery
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gamma-Butyrolactone (BL) has been mixed to the room temperature ionic liquid (RTIL) 1-butyl 3-methyl-imidazolium tetrafluoroborate (BMIBF4) (ratio: 3/2, v/v) in the presence of lithium tetrafluoroborate (LiBF4) for use as electrolyte in lithium-ion batteries, This mixture exhibits a larger thermal stability than the reference electrolyte EC/DEC/DMC (2/2/1)+LiPF6 (1 M) and can be considered as a new RTIL as no free BL molecules are present in the liquid phase. The cycling ability of this electrolyte has been investigated at a graphite, a titanate oxide (Li4Ti5O2) and a cobalt oxide (LixCoO2) electrodes. The ionic liquid is strongly reduced at the graphite electrode near 1 V and leads to the formation of a blocking film, which prevents any further cycling. The titanate oxide electrode can be cycled with a high capacity without any significant fading. Cycling of the positive cobalt oxide electrode was unsuccessfully owing to an oxidation reaction at the electrode surface, which prevents the intercalation or de-interealation of Li ions in and from the host material. Less reactive cathode material than cobalt oxide must be employed with this RTIL. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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