Towards an enhanced understanding of the particle size effect on conversion/alloying lithium-ion anodes

Jakob Asenbauer; Dominik Horny; Mayokun Olutogun; Katrin Schulz; Dominic Bresser

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Jakob Asenbauer, Dominik Horny, Mayokun Olutogun, Katrin Schulz, Dominic Bresser. Towards an enhanced understanding of the particle size effect on conversion/alloying lithium-ion anodes[J]. Materials Futures, 2024, 3(1): 015101. doi: 10.1088/2752-5724/ad1115

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Jakob Asenbauer, Dominik Horny, Mayokun Olutogun, Katrin Schulz, Dominic Bresser. Towards an enhanced understanding of the particle size effect on conversion/alloying lithium-ion anodes[J]. Materials Futures, 2024, 3(1): 015101. doi: 10.1088/2752-5724/ad1115

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Jakob Asenbauer, Dominik Horny, Mayokun Olutogun, Katrin Schulz, Dominic Bresser. Towards an enhanced understanding of the particle size effect on conversion/alloying lithium-ion anodes[J]. Materials Futures, 2024, 3(1): 015101. doi: 10.1088/2752-5724/ad1115

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Towards an enhanced understanding of the particle size effect on conversion/alloying lithium-ion anodes

Materials Futures, Volume 3, Number 1

Received Date: 2023-09-29
Accepted Date: 2023-11-20
Publish Date: 2024-01-03

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doi: 10.1088/2752-5724/ad1115

1 Helmholtz Institute Ulm (HIU), 89081 Ulm, Germany
2 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
3 Institute for Applied Materials (IAM), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
4 Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, 76133 Karlsruhe, Germany

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Financial support from the Vector Foundation within the NEW E² Project and the Helmholtz Association is kindly acknowledged. Moreover, the authors would like to acknowledge the financial support from the Young Investigator Network (YIN) at KIT via the YIN Grant.

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Abstract

Conversion/alloying materials (CAMs) represent a potential alternative to graphite as a Li-ion anode active material, especially for high-power applications. So far, however, essentially all studies on CAMs have been dealing with nano-sized particles, leaving the question of how the performance (and the de-/lithiation mechanism in general) is affected by the particle size. Herein, we comparatively investigate four different samples of Zn_0.9Co_0.1O with a particle size ranging from about 30 nm to a few micrometers. The results show that electrodes made of larger particles are more susceptible to fading due to particle displacement and particle cracking. The results also show that the conversion-type reaction in particular is affected by an increasing particle size, becoming less reversible due to the formation of relatively large transition metal (TM) and alloying metal nanograins upon lithiation, thus hindering an efficient electron transport within the initial particle, while the alloying contribution remains essentially unaffected. The generality of these findings is confirmed by also investigating Sn_0.9Fe_0.1O₂ as a second CAM with a substantially greater contribution of the alloying reaction and employing Fe instead of Co as a TM dopant.
- particle size,
- conversion,
- alloying,
- anode,
- lithium-ion battery

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