In-built ultraconformal interphases enable high-safety practical lithium batteries

Yu Wu, Xuning Feng*, Xiang Liu, Xuefeng Wang, Dongsheng Ren, Li Wang, Min Yang, Yongling Wang, Weifeng Zhang, Yalun Li, Yuejiu Zheng, Languang Lu, Xuebing Han, Gui Liang Xu, Yang Ren, Zonghai Chen, Jitao Chen, Xiangming He, Khalil Amine, Minggao Ouyang

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Abstract

There is an urgent need for high-safety and high-energy lithium-ion batteries to satisfy the rapidly increasing need for energy storage. Nickel-rich layered cathodes have been at the forefront of the revolution for batteries due to their relatively high capacity and low cost. However, with the increase of nickel content, the batteries suffer from severe safety concerns, which caused by thermal runaway. Here we show that the ultraconformal cathode-electrolyte interphase (CEI) protective skin with high inorganic content dramatically enhances the safety of high-energy practical Li-ion pouch cells. We find that the robust CEI skin significantly improves the intrinsic thermal stability, mitigates the evolution of oxygen resulting from phase transition, and effectively suppresses the associated parasitic reactions between the delithiated cathodes and electrolyte. The in-situ CEI engineering strategy is simple and suitable for practical industrial manufacture, and it provides design ideas for aggressive nickel-rich cathodes towards safe and high-energy batteries.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)248-257
Number of pages10
JournalEnergy Storage Materials
Volume43
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2021
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • High energy
  • High safety
  • Practical Li-ion pouch cells
  • Ultraconformal interphases

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