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Research Article | Open Access

Synergistically enabling the interface stability of lithium metal batteries with soft ionic gel and garnet-type Li6.4La3Zr1.4Ta0.6O12 ceramic filler

Qiujun WangaWeiqi ZhuaYa SuaDi ZhangaZhaojin LiaHuan WangaHuilan SunaBo Wanga( )Dan Zhoub( )Li-Zhen Fanb( )
Hebei Key Laboratory of Flexible Functional Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Hebei University of Science and Technology, Shijiazhuang, 050000, China
Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Materials Genome Engineering, Institute of Advanced Materials and Technology, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, 100083, China

Peer review under responsibility of The Chinese Ceramic Society.

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Abstract

Lithium metal batteries based on solid electrolytes are considered as promising candidates with high energy density and safety. However, the weak solid-solid contact between electrolyte and electrode can easily lead to interface instability and lithium ions discontinuous migration, which seriously reduces the electrochemical performance of the battery. Herein, we construct a soft gel interfacial layer to improve the stability of the solid-solid interface between electrolyte and electrode by means of polyester-based monomers and imidazole-based ionic liquids. Based on this, garnet-type Li6.4La3Zr1.4Ta0.6O12 (LLZTO) particles as inorganic ceramic filler were introduced in the layer to obtain composite electrolytes with high ionic conductivity (up to 1.1 × 10−3 S/cm at 25 ℃). As a result, the assembled lithium symmetric battery of Li|THCE-15%LLZTO|Li suggests excellent cycling stability with 700 h at 0.1 mA/cm2 at 50 ℃, and the lithium metal batteries of LFP|THCE-15%LLZTO|Li delivers high initial discharge capacity of 128.2 mA ·h/g with capacity retain of 75.48% after 150 cycles at 2 C. This work paves a new route to build safe and stable lithium metal batteries with synergistic introduction of composite electrolytes between electrolyte and electrode using soft gel interfacial layer and inorganic filler.

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Journal of Materiomics
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Cite this article:
Wang Q, Zhu W, Su Y, et al. Synergistically enabling the interface stability of lithium metal batteries with soft ionic gel and garnet-type Li6.4La3Zr1.4Ta0.6O12 ceramic filler. Journal of Materiomics, 2023, 9(3): 568-576. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmat.2022.11.006

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Received: 12 October 2022
Revised: 15 November 2022
Accepted: 21 November 2022
Published: 09 December 2022
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