Quantifying inactive lithium in lithium metal batteries

被引：1021

作者：

Fang, Chengcheng ^{[1
]}

Li, Jinxing ^{[2
]}

Zhang, Minghao ^{[2
]}

Zhang, Yihui ^{[1
]}

Yang, Fan ^{[3
]}

Lee, Jungwoo Z. ^{[2
]}

Lee, Min-Han ^{[1
]}

Alvarado, Judith ^{[1
,4
]}

Schroeder, Marshall A. ^{[4
]}

Yang, Yangyuchen ^{[1
]}

Lu, Bingyu ^{[2
]}

Williams, Nicholas ^{[3
]}

Ceja, Miguel ^{[2
]}

Yang, Li ^{[5
]}

Cai, Mei ^{[5
]}

Gu, Jing ^{[3
]}

Xu, Kang ^{[4
]}

Wang, Xuefeng ^{[2
]}

Meng, Ying Shirley ^{[1
,2
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Calif San Diego, Mat Sci & Engn Program, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA

[2] Univ Calif San Diego, Dept NanoEngn, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA

[3] San Diego State Univ, Dept Chem & Biochem, San Diego, CA 92182 USA

[4] US Army, Res Lab, Sensors & Elect Devices Directorate, Electrochem Branch, Adelphi, MD USA

[5] Gen Motors Res & Dev Ctr, Warren, MI USA

来源：

NATURE | 2019年 / 572卷 / 7770期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

ELECTROLYTES; INTERFACES; INSIGHTS; ANODES;

D O I：

10.1038/s41586-019-1481-z

中图分类号：

O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];

学科分类号：

070301 [无机化学]; 070403 [天体物理学]; 070507 [自然资源与国土空间规划学]; 090105 [作物生产系统与生态工程];

摘要：

Lithium metal anodes offer high theoretical capacities (3,860 milliampere-hours per gram)(1), but rechargeable batteries built with such anodes suffer from dendrite growth and low Coulombic efficiency (the ratio of charge output to charge input), preventing their commercial adoption(2,3). The formation of inactive ('dead') lithium- which consists of both (electro)chemically formed Li+ compounds in the solid electrolyte interphase and electrically isolated unreacted metallic Li-0 (refs(4,5))-causes capacity loss and safety hazards. Quantitatively distinguishing between Li+ in components of the solid electrolyte interphase and unreacted metallic Li-0 has not been possible, owing to the lack of effective diagnostic tools. Optical microscopy(6), in situ environmental transmission electron microscopy(7,8), X-ray microtomography(9) and magnetic resonance imaging(10) provide a morphological perspective with little chemical information. Nuclear magnetic resonance(11), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy(12) and cryogenic transmission electron microscopy(13,14) can distinguish between Li+ in the solid electrolyte interphase and metallic Li-0, but their detection ranges are limited to surfaces or local regions. Here we establish the analytical method of titration gas chromatography to quantify the contribution of unreacted metallic Li-0 to the total amount of inactive lithium. We identify the unreacted metallic Li-0, not the (electro)chemically formed Li+ in the solid electrolyte interphase, as the dominant source of inactive lithium and capacity loss. By coupling the unreacted metallic Li-0 content to observations of its local microstructure and nanostructure by cryogenic electron microscopy (both scanning and transmission), we also establish the formation mechanism of inactive lithium in different types of electrolytes and determine the underlying cause of low Coulombic efficiency in plating and stripping (the charge and discharge processes, respectively, in a full cell) of lithium metal anodes. We propose strategies for making lithium plating and stripping more efficient so that lithium metal anodes can be used for next-generation high-energy batteries.

引用

页码：511 / +

页数：17

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