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Recently developed novel Li-conducting polymeric materials enabling superior lithium (Li) metal anodes

December 6, 2021
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Superior Li metal anodes for high-energy Li metal batteries via MLD

Credit: Xiangbo Meng, the University of Arkansas

To address these two issues for commercializing Li metal anodes, researchers at the University of Arkansas have developed a novel lithium-containing crosslinked polymeric material, LiGL (GL = glycerol). This LiGL polymeric film exhibits exceptional properties and can effectively protect Li metal anodes from dendritic growth and SEI formation to realize Li electrodes’ long-term stable cyclability. They published their approach on September 07 in the Energy Material Advances.

A variety of technical strategies has been reported to address the issues of Li anodes to date, such as three-dimensional (3D) Li-hosting frameworks, electrolyte additives, solid-state electrolytes, and surface coatings. “Among these efforts, surface coating remains as a facile and effective route,” according to the corresponding author Xiangbo Meng, a professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Arkansas.

 “Molecular layer deposition (MLD) recently has emerged as a new research thrust, which is first practiced in 2018,” Meng said. “These polymeric films, precisely synthesized via MLD, have much better flexibility over inorganic films, contributing to better protection effects and thereby better performance of Li metal anodes.”

Meng and his team have developed three MLD processes of lithicones, and studied the protective effects of these polymeric films coatings, trying to realize long-term stable cyclability with little formation of Li dendrites and SEI for the Li electrodes.

“In this work, we for the first time developed a novel lithium-containing crosslinked polymeric material, a lithicone that enables excellent protection effects over lithium (Li) metal anodes,” Meng said. “We found that the LiGL lithicone could serve as an exceptional polymeric protection film over Li metal anodes.”

According to Meng, this LiGL MLD has a decent average growth per cycle (GPC) of ~2.7 nm/cycle and shows exceptional protection effects on Li electrodes, i.e., remarkably suppressing Li dendrites and mitigating SEI formation. The computational simulations and experiments revealed that the MLD LiGL films are electrically insulating and ionically conductive.

In their study experimental data revealed that the Li electrodes coated by this LiGL lithicone could achieve a superior cycling stability, accounting for an extremely long cyclability of >13,600 Li-stripping/plating cycles without failures in Li/Li symmetric cells at a current density of 5 mA/cm2 and an areal capacity of 1 mAh/cm2. Now, the updated results have extended the cyclability to over 20,000 Li-stripping/plating cycles (over 10,000 hours or over 1 year) without failures. All these are the best cyclability reported so far in literature. Thus, these results are very promising and the MLD LiGL technology may have paved a technical pathway for addressing the issues of Li anodes.

“The properties of the LiGL coatings, such as mechanical properties and conductivities, underlie their excellent protective effects on Li metal electrodes.,” Meng said. “This novel LiGL we developed represents a facile and effective solution to the existing issues of Li anodes and potentially paves a technically feasible route for lithium metal batteries.”

Contributors include Xiangbo Meng, Sujan Kumar Ghosh, Mourad Benamara, and Min Zou at University of Arkansas; and Kah Chun Lau at California State University Northridge; Hua Zhou at Argonne National Laboratory.

The Center for Advanced Surface Engineering, National Science Foundation Grant No. OIA-1457888 and the Arkansas EPSCoR Program, and the California State University Northridge and financial support from Cottrell Scholar Award (Award# 26829) by Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA) supported this research.

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Reference

Authors: Xiangbo Meng,1 Kah Chun Lau,2 Hua Zhou,3 Sujan Kumar Ghosh,1 Mourad Benamara,4 and Min Zou1

Title of original paper: Molecular Layer Deposition of Crosslinked Polymeric Lithicone for Superior Lithium Metal Anodes

Journal: Energy Material Advances

DOI: 10.34133/2021/9786201

Affiliations: 

11Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA

2Department of Physics and Astronomy, California State University Northridge, CA 91330, USA

3Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL 60439, USA

4Institute for Nanoscience and Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA

About Dr. Xiangbo Meng

Dr. Xiangbo Meng currently is an Assistant Professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Arkansas (Fayetteville, AR). His research interests lie in smartly designing novel nanostructured materials for a wide range of applications such as energy, catalysis, semiconductors, and surface engineering. Currently, Dr. Meng’s research focuses on synthesis of new inorganic, organic, and hybrid nanomaterials in precisely controllable modes using atomic and molecular layer deposition (ALD and MLD) to address interface issues in advanced battery systems. Prior to joining the University of Arkansas, Dr. Meng conducted research at Argonne National Laboratory and Brookhaven National Laboratory (2011 – 2016). He received two PhDs in Mechanical & Materials Engineering and Chemical & Biochemical Engineering from the University of Western Ontario (2005-2011). He was the recipient of a Canada NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship (2011-2013). Dr. Meng has over 100 publications including 9 patents (applications) and 7 book chapters.



Journal

Energy Material Advances

DOI

10.34133/2021/9786201

Method of Research

Experimental study

Subject of Research

Not applicable

Article Title

Molecular Layer Deposition of Crosslinked Polymeric Lithicone for Superior Lithium Metal Anodes

Article Publication Date

7-Sep-2021

COI Statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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