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ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2017 Nov 22;9(46):40143-40150. doi: 10.1021/acsami.7b08960. Epub 2017 Nov 07.

Systematic Investigation of the Alucone-Coating Enhancement on Silicon Anodes.

ACS applied materials & interfaces

Seoung-Bum Son, Yikai Wang, Jiagang Xu, Xuemin Li, Markus Groner, Adam Stokes, Yongan Yang, Yang-Tse Cheng, Chunmei Ban

Affiliations

  1. National Renewable Energy Laboratory , 15013 Denver West Parkway, Golden, Colorado 80401, Unites States.
  2. Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Kentucky , Lexington, Kentucky 40506, United States.
  3. Department of Chemistry, Colorado School of Mines , 1012 14th Street, Golden, Colorado 80401, United States.
  4. ALD NanoSolution , 580 Burbank Street, Unit 100, Broomfield, Colorado 80020, United States.
  5. Department of Materials Science, Colorado School of Mines , 1600 Illinois Street, Golden, Colorado 80401, United States.

PMID: 28948765 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.7b08960

Abstract

Polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) is the most popular binder in commercial lithium-ion batteries but is incompatible with a silicon (Si) anode because it fails to maintain the mechanical integrity of the Si electrode upon cycling. Herein, an alucone coating synthesized by molecular layer deposition has been applied on the laminated electrode fabricated with PVDF to systematically study the sole impact of the surface modification on the electrochemical and mechanical properties of the Si electrode, without the interference of other functional polymer binders. The enhanced mechanical properties of the coated electrodes, confirmed by mechanical characterization, can help accommodate the repeated volume fluctuations, preserve the electrode structure during electrochemical reactions, and thereby, leading to a remarkable improvement of the electrochemical performance. Owing to the alucone coating, the Si electrodes achieve highly reversible cycling performance with a specific capacity of 1490 mA h g

Keywords: energy storage; lithium-ion batteries; molecular layer deposition; polyvinylidene fluoride binder; silicon-based anodes

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