Abstract
To determine the effect of cross-linking in polymer binders on gravimetric capacity and retention in charge/discharge cycling of lithium-ion batteries containing silicon anodes, polymers with a varied chemiophysical characters have been studied as electrode binders. Here we report the utilization of cross-linked polyborosiloxanes and a boron-modified organosilicate as binders for nanoparticulate silicon-containing anodes for lithium-ion batteries. We show that highly cross-linked binders enable a large degree of capacity to be accessed and that capacity retention is greater when the electrodes are cycled in half cells. More extensive analysis of the boron-modified organosilicate is further explored.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | A731-A735 |
| Journal | Journal of the Electrochemical Society |
| Volume | 165 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2018 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© The Author(s) 2018.
Funding
We thank the National Science Foundation for Award No. 1355438 (EPSCoR: Powering the Kentucky Bioeconomy for a Sustainable Future). We thank Celgard for their donation of battery separators. We thank Matthew Casselman and Bryant Polzin for helpful discussions.
| Funders | Funder number |
|---|---|
| U.S. Department of Energy Chinese Academy of Sciences Guangzhou Municipal Science and Technology Project Oak Ridge National Laboratory Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment National Science Foundation National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center National Natural Science Foundation of China | |
| EPSCoR: Powering the Kentucky Bioeconomy | |
| U.S. Department of Energy Chinese Academy of Sciences Guangzhou Municipal Science and Technology Project Oak Ridge National Laboratory Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment National Science Foundation National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center National Natural Science Foundation of China | 1355438 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Surfaces, Coatings and Films
- Electrochemistry
- Materials Chemistry