Lithiophilic Chemistry Facilitated Ultrathin Lithium for Scalable Prelithiation

Kuangyu Wang; Cheng Yang; Ruichuan Yuan; Fei Xu; Yingchuan Zhang; Tiezheng Ding; Maosheng Yu; Xinxiu Xu; Yuanzheng Long; Yulong Wu; Lei Li; Xiaoyan Li; Hui Wu

doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c04885

Lithiophilic Chemistry Facilitated Ultrathin Lithium for Scalable Prelithiation

Kuangyu Wang
, Cheng Yang
, Ruichuan Yuan
, Fei Xu
, Yingchuan Zhang
, Tiezheng Ding
, Maosheng Yu
, Xinxiu Xu
, Yuanzheng Long
, Yulong Wu
, Lei Li
, Xiaoyan Li^*
, Hui Wu^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Prelithiation plays a crucial role in advancing the development of high-energy-density batteries, and ultrathin lithium (UTL) has been proven to be a promising anode prelithiation reagent. However, there remains a need to explore an adjustable, efficient, and cost-effective method for manufacturing UTL. In this study, we introduce a method for producing UTL with adjustable thicknesses ranging from 1.5 to 10 μm through blade coating of molten lithium on poly(vinylidene fluoride)-modified copper current collectors. By employing the transfer-printing method, prelithiated graphite and Si-C composite electrodes are prepared, which exhibit significantly improved initial Coulombic efficiencies of 99.60% and 99.32% in half-cells, respectively. Moreover, the energy densities of Li(NiCoMn)_1/3O₂ and LiFePO₄ full cells assembled with the prelithiated graphite electrodes increase by 13.1% and 23.6%, respectively.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2094-2101
Number of pages	8
Journal	Nano Letters
Volume	24
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c04885
Publication status	Published - 14 Feb 2024
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

lithiophilicity
lithium-ion battery
prelithiation
surface modification
ultrathin lithium

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