Stable lithium-ion batteries based on a hybrid aqueous/organic electrolyte
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2024
Moving from organic to aqueous lithium-ion batteries (ALIBs) would be an interesting feat. As of today, we have water-in-salt electrolytes (WISEs) that were developed primarily to expand the electrochemical stability window of traditional aqueous electrolytes. However, their cathodic limits do not enable the use of high-capacity negative electrodes and the very high concentrations of expensive heavily fluorinated salts, often >20 mol kg−1, hinder any feasible implementation of LIBs based on WISEs. A hybrid organic/aqueous electrolyte based on LiFTFSI dissolved in sulfolane and water is here presented as an alternative, where sulfolane is used to tune and reduce the water activity, by altering the Li+ cation first solvation shell, and thereby the cathodic limit can be pushed to <1.0 V vs. Li+/Li even at a comparatively moderate salt concentration (7.8 mol kg−1). This enables long-term operation of an Li4Ti5O12⎪hybrid electrolyte⎪LiMn2O4 2.4 V cell with a specific energy of 156 Wh kgAM−1.
Water in salt
Sulfolane
Hybrid electrolytes
Solvation structure
LiFTFSI
Författare
Shahid Khalid
Universita' degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
Ivan Claudio Pellini
Universita' degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
Nicolò Pianta
Universita' degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
Roberto Lorenzi
Universita' degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
Silvia Leonardi
ENI S.p.A., Italy
Laura Meda
ENI S.p.A., Italy
Caterina Rizzo
ENI S.p.A., Italy
Ernesto Roccaro
ENI S.p.A., Italy
Patrik Johansson
Alistore - European Research Institute
Chalmers, Fysik, Materialfysik
Piercarlo Mustarelli
Universita' degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
National Reference Center for Electrochemical Energy Storage (GISEL)
Riccardo Ruffo
National Reference Center for Electrochemical Energy Storage (GISEL)
Universita' degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
Journal of Power Sources
0378-7753 (ISSN)
Vol. 612 234803Ämneskategorier
Materialkemi
Datavetenskap (datalogi)
DOI
10.1016/j.jpowsour.2024.234803