A multifunctional polymer electrolyte enables ultra-long cycle-life in a high-voltage lithium metal battery

Tiantian Dong, Jianjun Zhang, Gaojie Xu, Jingchao Chai, Huiping Du, Longlong Wang, Huijie Wen, Xiao Zang, Aobing Du, Qingming Jia, Xinhong Zhou, Guanglei Cui

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Abstract

In this article, we demonstrated for the first time an ultra-strong bacterial cellulose supported poly(methyl vinyl ether-alt-maleic anhydride) as a multifunctional polymer electrolyte for a 4.45 V-class LiCoO2 lithium metal battery. Such a polymer electrolyte based LiCoO2 lithium metal battery delivered significant capacity retention (85% retention after 700 cycles) at 60 °C. A more thorough investigation elucidated that it played multiple roles in enhancing the electro-oxidative resistance and reversible lithium plating/stripping of a LiCoO2 lithium metal cell. These extraordinary features open up a new avenue for the fabrication of advanced polymer electrolytes for high-voltage lithium metal cells.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1197-1203
Number of pages7
JournalEnergy and Environmental Science
Volume11
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - May 2018
Externally publishedYes

Bibliographical note

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© 2018 The Royal Society of Chemistry.

Funding

This original research was supported by funding from the ‘‘135’’ Projects Fund of CAS-QIBEBT Director Innovation Foundation, the Key Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. KFZD-SW-414), the National Natural Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars of China (Grant No. 51625204) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51703236). The authors gratefully acknowledge Dr Li Gu and Ms Yuxin Tong (Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China) for the high resolution transmission electron microscopy tests, and Dr Bingbing Chen (Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266101, China) for the theoretical calculations.

FundersFunder number
CAS-QIBEBT
National Natural Science Foundation of China51703236
Chinese Academy of SciencesKFZD-SW-414
National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars51625204

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