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Solid polymer electrolyte-based high areal capacity all-solid-state batteries enabled with ceramic interlayers

Show Author's Information Chenji Hu1,§,  Daiqian Chen2,§,  Yage Huang1,§,  Guoyong Xue1,  Xi Liu3,  Jingshu Wang2,  Jun Ma1,  Bowen Chen2,  Qi Chen2,  Linsen Li1,4,  Yanbin Shen2,  Liwei Chen1,2,4( )
School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, in-situ Center for Physical Sciences, Shanghai Electrochemical Energy Device Research Center (SEED) and Frontiers Science Center for Transformative Molecules, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
i-Lab, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics (SINANO), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou 215123, China
IDONÅNO Co Ltd, Shanghai 201614, China
Future Battery Research Center, Global Institute of Future Technology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

§ Chenji Hu, Daiqian Chen, and Yage Huang contributed equally to this work.

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high areal capacity, all-solid-state batteries, ceramic interlayer, solid polymer electrolyte
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Hu C, Chen D, Huang Y, et al. Solid polymer electrolyte-based high areal capacity all-solid-state batteries enabled with ceramic interlayers. Nano Research, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-024-6667-5
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Solid polymer electrolytes (SPEs) based all-solid-state batteries (ASSBs) have attracted extensive attention as a promising candidate for next-generation energy storage systems. Typical ASSBs require high fabrication pressure to achieve high areal capacity, under which, however, SPEs struggle and risk damage or failure due to their low mechanical strength. There is also a lack of study on complex stress and strain SPEs experience during ASSB cell assembly processes. Here, ceramic solid electrolytes are selected as interlayers to address the stress–strain conditions during assembling. As a result, high areal capacity ASSBs with a LiCoO2 loading of 12 mg·cm−2 were assembled with SPE-based composite electrolytes. Around 200 cycles were carried out for these cells at a current density of 1 mA·cm−2 under room temperature. The capacity decay of the battery at 200 cycles is observed to be as low as 0.06% per cycle. This work identifies a critical issue for application of SPEs in ASSBs and provides a potential strategy for the design of SPE-based ASSBs with high specific energy and long cycle life.


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Solid polymer electrolyte-based high areal capacity all-solid-state batteries enabled with ceramic interlayers

Show Author's information Chenji Hu1,§, Daiqian Chen2,§, Yage Huang1,§, Guoyong Xue1, Xi Liu3, Jingshu Wang2, Jun Ma1, Bowen Chen2, Qi Chen2, Linsen Li1,4, Yanbin Shen2, Liwei Chen1,2,4( )
School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, in-situ Center for Physical Sciences, Shanghai Electrochemical Energy Device Research Center (SEED) and Frontiers Science Center for Transformative Molecules, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
i-Lab, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics (SINANO), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou 215123, China
IDONÅNO Co Ltd, Shanghai 201614, China
Future Battery Research Center, Global Institute of Future Technology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

§ Chenji Hu, Daiqian Chen, and Yage Huang contributed equally to this work.

Abstract

Solid polymer electrolytes (SPEs) based all-solid-state batteries (ASSBs) have attracted extensive attention as a promising candidate for next-generation energy storage systems. Typical ASSBs require high fabrication pressure to achieve high areal capacity, under which, however, SPEs struggle and risk damage or failure due to their low mechanical strength. There is also a lack of study on complex stress and strain SPEs experience during ASSB cell assembly processes. Here, ceramic solid electrolytes are selected as interlayers to address the stress–strain conditions during assembling. As a result, high areal capacity ASSBs with a LiCoO2 loading of 12 mg·cm−2 were assembled with SPE-based composite electrolytes. Around 200 cycles were carried out for these cells at a current density of 1 mA·cm−2 under room temperature. The capacity decay of the battery at 200 cycles is observed to be as low as 0.06% per cycle. This work identifies a critical issue for application of SPEs in ASSBs and provides a potential strategy for the design of SPE-based ASSBs with high specific energy and long cycle life.

Keywords: high areal capacity, all-solid-state batteries, ceramic interlayer, solid polymer electrolyte

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Received: 01 February 2024
Revised: 28 March 2024
Accepted: 28 March 2024
Published: 30 April 2024

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This work was supported by funding from the National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2021YFB3800300), Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality (No. 23DZ1200800), and China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Nos. BX20220199 and 2023M732208).

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