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Ionic liquid-based electrolyte with dual-functional LiDFOB additive toward high-performance LiMn2O4 batteries

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Manganese oxide-based cathodes are one of the most promising lithium-ion battery (LIB) cathode materials due to their cost-effectiveness, high discharge voltage plateau (above 4.0 V vs. Li/Li+), superior rate capability, and environmental benignity. However, these batteries using conventional LiPF6-based electrolytes suffer from Mn dissolution and poor cyclic capability at elevated temperature. In this paper, the ionic liquid (IL)-based electrolytes, consisting of 1-butyl-1-methylpyrrolidinium bis(trifluoromethanesulfon)imidate (PYR1,4-TFSI), propylene carbonate (PC), lithium bis(trifluoromethanesulfon)imide (LiTFSI), and lithium oxalyldifluoroborate (LiDFOB) additive, were explored for improving the high temperature performance of the LiMn2O4 batteries. It was demonstrated that LiTFSI-ILs/PC electrolyte associated with LiDFOB addition possessed less Mn dissolution and Al corrosion at the elevated temperature in LiMn2O4/Li batteries. Cyclic voltammetry and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy implied that this kind of electrolyte also contributed to the formation of a highly stable solid electrolyte interface (SEI), which was in accordance with the polarization measurement and the Li deposition morphology of the symmetric lithium metal cell, thus beneficial for improving the cycling performance of the LiMn2O4 batteries at the elevated temperature. Cyclic voltammetry and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy implied that the cells using this kind of electrolyte exhibited better interfacial stability, which was further verified by the polarization measurement and the Li deposition morphology of the symmetric lithium metal cell, thus beneficial for improving the cycling performance of the LiMn2O4 batteries at the elevated temperature. These unique characteristics would endow this kind of electrolyte a very promising candidate for the manganese oxide-based batteries.

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This work was supported by the National Program on the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 program, No. 2013AA050905), Key Project of Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (ZR2015QZ01), “135” Projects Fund of CAS-QIBEBT Director Innovation Foundation, and Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology Director Technology Foundation.

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  1. Qingdao Industrial Energy Storage Research Institute, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266101, People’s Republic of China

    Bingsheng Qin, Shu Zhang, Zhenglin Hu, Zhihong Liu, Jianghui Zhao & Guanglei Cui

  2. Research Institute of Technology, Shandong WINA Green Power Technology Co., Ltd., Weifang, 262700, People’s Republic of China

    Junnan Zhang

  3. Key Laboratory for Liquid-Solid Structural Evolution & Processing of Materials (Ministry of Education), Shandong University, Jinan, 250061, People’s Republic of China

    Junwei Xiong

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Qin, B., Zhang, S., Hu, Z. et al. Ionic liquid-based electrolyte with dual-functional LiDFOB additive toward high-performance LiMn2O4 batteries. Ionics 23, 1399–1406 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11581-016-1966-9

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