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Tuning the electron transport behavior at Li/LATP interface for enhanced cyclability of solid-state Li batteries

Linshan Luo1,§Feng Zheng1,§Haowen Gao2,§Chaofei Lan1,§Zhefei Sun2Wei Huang1Xiang Han3Ziqi Zhang1Pengfei Su1Peng Wang4Shengshi Guo1Guangyang Lin1Jianfang Xu1Jianyuan Wang1Jun Li1Cheng Li1Qiaobao Zhang2Shunqing Wu1( )Ming-Sheng Wang2( )Songyan Chen1( )
Department of Physics, Collaborative Innovation Center for Optoelectronic Semiconductors and Efficient Devices, Key Laboratory of Low Dimensional Condensed Matter Physics (Department of Education of Fujian Province), Jiujiang Research Institute, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
State Key Lab of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, College of Materials, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
College of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China
Western Digital Corporation, 951 Sandisk Dr, Milpitas, CA 95035, USA

§ Linshan Luo, Feng Zheng, Haowen Gao, and Chaofei Lan contributed equally to this work.

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An Al-LiF bilayer between Li/Li1.3Al0.3Ti1.7(PO4)3 (LATP) interface is established to dramatically improve the interfacial stability, due to the highly increased barrier width and homogenized electric field at the interface, so that the electrons are difficult to tunnel through LiF to LATP.

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An interlayer is usually employed to tackle the interfacial instability issue between solid electrolytes (SEs) and Li metal caused by the side reaction. However, the failure mechanism of the ionic conductor interlayers, especially the influence from electron penetration, remains largely unknown. Herein, using Li1.3Al0.3Ti1.7(PO4)3 (LATP) as the model SE and LiF as the interlayer, we use metal semiconductor contact barrier theory to reveal the failure origin of Li/LiF@LATP interface based on the calculation results of density functional theory (DFT), in which electrons can easily tunnel through the LiF grain boundary with F vacancies due to its narrow barrier width against electron injection, followed by the reduction of LATP. Remarkably, an Al-LiF bilayer between Li/LATP is found to dramatically promote the interfacial stability, due to the highly increased barrier width and homogenized electric field at the interface. Consequently, the Li symmetric cells with Al-LiF bilayer can exhibit excellent cyclability of more than 2,000 h superior to that interlayered by LiF monolayer (~ 860 h). Moreover, the Li/Al-LiF@LATP/LiFePO4 solid-state batteries deliver a capacity retention of 83.2% after 350 cycles at 0.5 C. Our findings emphasize the importance of tuning the electron transport behavior by optimizing the potential barrier for the interface design in high-performance solid-state batteries.

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Luo L, Zheng F, Gao H, et al. Tuning the electron transport behavior at Li/LATP interface for enhanced cyclability of solid-state Li batteries. Nano Research, 2023, 16(1): 1634-1641. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-022-5136-2
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