Aqueous processing of flexible, free-standing Li4Ti5O12 electrodes for Li-ion batteries

Piffet, Caroline; Vertruyen, Bénédicte; Caes, Sébastien; Thomassin, Jean-Michel; Broze, Guy; Malherbe, Cédric; Boschini, Frédéric; Cloots, Rudi; Mahmoud, Abdelfattah

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Aqueous processing of flexible, free-standing Li4Ti5O12 electrodes for Li-ion batteries

Piffet, Caroline; Vertruyen, Bénédicte; Caes, Sébastien et al.

2020 • In Chemical Engineering Journal, 397

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Flexible electrode; Free-standing electrode; Aqueous suspension; Li4Ti5O12; Viscosity; Li-ion battery

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[en] The development of Li-ion batteries for the new flexible technologies should also consider environment and safety issues. Therefore, this research focused on developing an aqueous waterbased process for the preparation of free-standing, CNT-free and flexible Li4Ti5O12 (LTO) electrodes, where LTO itself was also obtained through an aqueous route. The electrodes contain carbon black, polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) and polyethylene glycol (PEG) 500 or 6000 g/mol. The SEM and IR-ATR analyses confirmed a good distribution of all components. 2 wt% PEG 6000 or 3 wt% PEG 500 with respect to LTO were the optimum ratios to obtain free-standing flexible electrodes. The suspensions were studied by rheological analysis: the system was found to be stable (G’ modulus above G’’ modulus) and the role of the polymers and carbon in the suspensions has been investigated by viscosity measurements. Excellent electrochemical performances (up to 157mAh/g at 1C rate) were obtained for PEG6000-based current-collector-free electrodes. Mild mechanical stress applied to the electrodes before the measurements allowed to enhance the performances, which could be related to the creation of tiny cracks which led to better penetration of the electrolyte in the electrode.

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Piffet, Caroline ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de chimie (sciences) > LCIS - GreenMAT

Vertruyen, Bénédicte ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de chimie (sciences) > Chimie inorganique structurale

Caes, Sébastien

Thomassin, Jean-Michel ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de chimie (sciences) > Chimie des macromolécules et des matériaux organiques (CERM)

Broze, Guy ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de chimie (sciences) > Chimie des macromolécules et des matériaux organiques (CERM)

Malherbe, Cédric ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de chimie (sciences) > Chimie analytique inorganique

Boschini, Frédéric ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Plateforme APTIS

Cloots, Rudi ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de chimie (sciences) > Vice-Recteur à la vie étud. et aux infrastr. immobilières

Mahmoud, Abdelfattah ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de chimie (sciences) > LCIS - GreenMAT

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English

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Aqueous processing of flexible, free-standing Li4Ti5O12 electrodes for Li-ion batteries

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2020

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Chemical Engineering Journal

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1385-8947

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1873-3212

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Elsevier, Netherlands

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397

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