Nonpassivated Silicon Anode Surface

A stable solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) has been proven to be a key enabler to most advanced battery chemistries, where the reactivity between the electrolyte and the anode operating beyond the electrolyte stability limits must be kinetically suppressed by such SEIs. The graphite anode used in state-of-the-art Li-ion batteries presents the most representative SEI example. Because of similar operation potentials between graphite and silicon (Si), a similar passivation mechanism has been thought to apply on the Si anode when using the same carbonate-based electrolytes. In this work, we found that the chemical formation process of a proto-SEI on Si is closely entangled with incessant SEI decomposition, detachment, and reparation, which lead to continuous lithium consumption. Using a special galvanostatic protocol designed to observe the SEI formation prior to Si lithiation, we were able to deconvolute the electrochemical formation of such dynamic SEI from the morphology and mechanical complexities of Si and showed that a pristine Si anode could not be fully passivated in carbonate-based electrolytes.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:12

Enthalten in:

ACS applied materials & interfaces - 12(2020), 23 vom: 10. Juni, Seite 26593-26600

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Yin, Yanli [VerfasserIn]
Arca, Elisabetta [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Luning [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Guang [VerfasserIn]
Schnabel, Manuel [VerfasserIn]
Cao, Lei [VerfasserIn]
Xiao, Chuanxiao [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Hongyao [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Ping [VerfasserIn]
Nanda, Jagjit [VerfasserIn]
Teeter, Glenn [VerfasserIn]
Eichhorn, Bryan [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Kang [VerfasserIn]
Burrell, Anthony [VerfasserIn]
Ban, Chunmei [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Carbonate electrolytes
Journal Article
Silicon anode
Solid electrolyte interphase
Surface and lithium-ion battery

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Date Revised 11.06.2020

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1021/acsami.0c03799

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM309949416