Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 12, Issue 37, Pages 41368-41380Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c10823
Keywords
heat treatment; PVDF binder; anode; lithium-ion battery; solid electrolyte interphase
Funding
- National Science Foundation, United States [NSF DMR 1464111]
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The lithium-ion battery (LIB) industry has been in high demand for simple and effective methods to improve the electrochemical performance of LIBs. Here, we treated three different widely studied anode electrodes (i.e., Li4Ti5O12, TiO2, and graphite) under vacuum at 250 degrees C, and compared their electrochemical performance with and without a 250 degrees C treatment. Without changing the composition of the fabricated electrodes, all of the 250 degrees C treated electrodes exhibited enhanced specific capacities, and the lithium-ion diffusion was improved in different degrees. By comparing the results of scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and energy-dispersive spectroscopy of the pristine and 250 degrees C treated electrodes, the 250 degrees C treatment improved the distribution of a polyvinylidene difluoride (PVDF) binder in the electrodes, resulting in a higher porosity of the 250 degrees C treated electrodes. The results of X-ray photoelectron spectrometry and SEM of the cycled electrodes confirmed that a uniform distribution of the PVDF binder from the 250 degrees C treatment played a positive role in the formation of a solid electrolyte interphase layer, thereby delivering higher capacities and capacity retentions than those of electrodes without heat treatment. The simplicity of this modification method provides considerable potential for building high-performance LIBs at a larger scale.
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