Graphene-Coated Aluminum Thin Film Anodes for Lithium-Ion Batteries
- Authors
- Kwon, GD[Kwon, Gi Duk]; Moyen, E[Moyen, Eric]; Lee, YJ[Lee, Yeo Jin]; Joe, J[Joe, Jemee]; Pribat, D[Pribat, Didier]
- Issue Date
- 5-Sep-2018
- Publisher
- AMER CHEMICAL SOC
- Keywords
- Li-ion batteries; aluminum anodes; nanoporous graphene; lithium aluminum compounds; prolonged cycling
- Citation
- ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES, v.10, no.35, pp.29486 - 29495
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- Journal Title
- ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
- Volume
- 10
- Number
- 35
- Start Page
- 29486
- End Page
- 29495
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/skku/handle/2021.sw.skku/18579
- DOI
- 10.1021/acsami.8b08358
- ISSN
- 1944-8244
- Abstract
- We present a detailed study on graphene-coated aluminum thin films for Li-ion battery anode applications. The best electrode ageing behavior is obtained for Al films encapsulated with four porous graphene layers. Graphene encapsulation prevents "crushed" Al nanoparticles from detaching from the anode, thus allowing prolonged charge discharge cycling. Graphene also provides surface conduction paths for electrons as well as diffusion paths for Li atoms. For the first time, we report the electrochemical room temperature formation of phases such as Li3Al2 and even Li9Al4, with a higher Li content than beta-LiAl. More interestingly, we observe a progressive change of the composite thin film electrode, switching from a pure galvanic to a pseudocapacitive behavior as the size of the Al grains decreases from similar to 100 to 5-10 nm to repeated Li alloying-dealloying. The capacity values of similar to 900 and 780 mAh/g are obtained after, respectively, 500 and 1000 charge discharge cycles at 0.1C. Our results may refocus the interest of the battery community on Al-based thin film anodes, since they are potentially very simple to fabricate, particularly if porous graphene is replaced in the future by reduced graphite oxide.
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