Controllable growth of LiMn2O4 by carbohydrate-assisted combustion synthesis for high performance Li-ion batteries

Wei Huang; Gang Wang; C. Luo; Yaobin Xu; Ying Xu; Brian J. Eckstein; Yao Chen; Binghao Wang; Jiaxing Huang; Y. Kang; Jinsong Wu; Vinayak P. Dravid; Antonio Facchetti; Tobin J. Marks

doi:10.1016/j.nanoen.2019.103936

Controllable growth of LiMn₂O₄ by carbohydrate-assisted combustion synthesis for high performance Li-ion batteries

Wei Huang, Gang Wang, C. Luo, Yaobin Xu, Ying Xu, Brian J. Eckstein, Yao Chen, Binghao Wang, Jiaxing Huang, Y. Kang, Jinsong Wu, Vinayak P. Dravid, Antonio Facchetti, Tobin J. Marks^*

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Abstract

LiMn₂O₄ (LMO) spinels with diverse achievable morphologies are realized using solution processing techniques including sol-gel and cofuel-assisted combustion synthesis (CS). These LMOs are utilized as cathode materials in lithium ion batteries (LiBs), with LMO produced here by low-temperature, sorbitol-assisted combustion synthesis (SA-CS) yielding superior performance metrics. Morphological analysis by combined X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy demonstrates that these SA-CS LMO powders have optimum LiB grain (<500 nm) and crystallite (~30 nm) dimensions as well as spinel phase purity. Cathode mixtures having micron-scale, uniformly distributed LMO, conductive carbon, and a polymer binder provide effective electron and Li transport as assessed by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and fabricated battery performance, showing high capacity (~120 mA h/g), good cycling stability (~95% capacity retention after 100 charge/discharge cycles), and high charge/discharge rates (up to 86 mA h/g at 10 C). SA-CS provides a simple, efficient, lower temperature, and scalable process for producing morphology-controlled high-performance LiB cathode oxides.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	103936
Journal	Nano Energy
Volume	64
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2019.103936
State	Published - Oct 2019

Funding

This work was supported as part of the Center for Electrochemical Energy Science , an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy , Office of Science , Basic Energy Sciences (Award No. DE-AC02–06CH11357 ; W.H.). This work made use of the Keck-II facility of Northwestern University's NUANCE Center, which received support from the Soft and Hybrid Nanotechnology Experimental (SHyNE) Resource ( NSF ECCS-1542205 ); the MRSEC program ( NSF DMR-1720139 ) at the Materials Research Center; the International Institute for Nanotechnology (IIN) ; the Kendrick Foundation ; and the State of Illinois , through the IIN. This work also made use of the IMSERC at Northwestern University, which has received support from the Soft and Hybrid Nanotechnology Experimental (SHyNE) Resource ( NSF NNCI-1542205 ); the State of Illinois and International Institute for Nanotechnology (IIN) ; and the NSF ( NSF CHE-9871268 ). W.H and G. W. contributed equally to this work.

Keywords

Cofuel combustion
Combustion synthesis
Controllable morphology
Li-ion batteries
Lithium manganese oxide

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Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
General Materials Science
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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