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Realizing simultaneously enhanced energy and power density full-cell construction using mixed hard carbon/Li4Ti5O12 electrode

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Practical applications of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) with both high energy and power density are urgently demanded, which require suitable charge/discharge platform, fast charge-transfer kinetics, as well as optimal solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) layer of electrode materials. In this work, a high-performance lithium-ion battery (LIB) full cell was assembled by using commercial LiNi0.33Co0.33Mn0.33O2 (NCM111) as the positive electrode and mixed Li4Ti5O12 (LTO)/hard carbon (HC) as the negative electrode. It reveals that the component ratio between LTO and HC plays a critical role in manipulating the electric conductivity and the electro-reaction platform. The electrochemical test results show that when the content of HC is 10 wt%, the as-constructed full cell demonstrates the best electrochemical, with a maximum energy density of 149.2 Wh·kg−1 and a maximum power density of 2195 W·kg−1 at 10 A·g−1 (30C). This outperforms all the assembled systems within our work range and the state-of-the-art literatures. The NCM//Li4Ti5O12 + 10 wt% HC battery system also exhibits a good capacity retention after 1000 cycles at the current density of 1 A·g−1. This work provides a new approach to enhance the full-cell performance by mixing electrode materials with different charge potentials and reaction kinetics.

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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51774251), Hebei Natural Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars (No. B2015203096), the Hundred Excellent Innovative Talents Support Program in Hebei Province (No. SLRC2017057), the Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars (No. CG2014003002) and the Open Funding from State Key Laboratory of Advanced Chemical Power Sources (No. SKL-ACPS-C-11).

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Huang, SF., Lv, Y., Tie, D. et al. Realizing simultaneously enhanced energy and power density full-cell construction using mixed hard carbon/Li4Ti5O12 electrode. Rare Met. 40, 65–71 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12598-019-01312-4

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