1
|
Lakshmi-Narayana A, Dhananjaya M, Julien CM, Joo SW, Ramana CV. Enhanced Electrochemical Performance of Rare-Earth Metal-Ion-Doped Nanocrystalline Li 4Ti 5O 12 Electrodes in High-Power Li-Ion Batteries. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2023; 15:20925-20945. [PMID: 37067333 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c00175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
Abstract
A comprehensive and comparative exploration research performed, aiming to elucidate the fundamental mechanisms of rare-earth (RE) metal-ion doping into Li4Ti5O12 (LTO), reveals the enhanced electrochemical performance of the nanocrystalline RE-LTO electrodes in high-power Li-ion batteries. Pristi ne Li4Ti5O12 (LTO) and rare-earth metal-doped Li4-x/3Ti5-2x/3LnxO12 (RE-LTO with RE = Dy, Ce, Nd, Sm, and Eu; x ≈ 0.1) nanocrystalline anode materials were synthesized using a simple mechanochemical method and subsequent calcination at 850 °C. The X-ray diffraction (XRD) patterns of pristine and RE-LTO samples exhibit predominant (111) orientation along with other characteristic peaks corresponding to cubic spinel lattice. No evidence of RE-doping-induced changes was seen in the crystal structure and phase. The average crystallite size for pristine and RE-LTO samples varies in the range of 50-40 nm, confirming the formation of nanoscale crystalline materials and revealing the good efficiency of the ball-milling-assisted process adopted to synthesize nanoscale particles. Raman spectroscopic analyses of the chemical bonding indicate and further validate the phase structural quality in addition to corroborating with XRD data for the cubic spinel structure formation. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) reveals that both pristine and RE-LTO particles have a similar cubic shape, but RE-LTO particles are better interconnected, which provide a high specific surface area for enhanced Li+-ion storage. The detailed electrochemical characterization confirms that the RE-LTO electrodes constitute promising anode materials for high-power Li-ion batteries. The RE-LTO electrodes deliver better discharge capacities (in the range of 172-198 mAh g-1 at 1C rate) than virgin LTO (168 mAh g-1). Among them, Eu-LTO provides the best discharge capacity of 198 mAh g-1 at a 1C rate. When cycled at a high current rate of 50C, all RE-LTO electrodes show nearly 70% of their initial discharge capacities, resulting in higher rate capability than virgin LTO (63%). The results discussed in this work unfold the fundamental mechanisms of RE doping into LTO and demonstrate the enhanced electrochemical performance derived via chemical composition tailoring in RE-LTO compounds for application in high-power Li-ion batteries.
Collapse
Affiliation(s)
- A Lakshmi-Narayana
- Center for Advanced Materials Research (CMR), University of Texas at El Paso, 500 W University Avenue, El Paso, Texas 79968, United States
- Department of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at El Paso, 500 W University Avenue, El Paso, Texas 79968, United States
| | - Merum Dhananjaya
- School of Mechanical and IT Engineering, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan 38541, Republic of Korea
| | - Christian M Julien
- Institut de Minéralogie, de Physique des Matériaux et de Cosmochimie (IMPMC), Sorbonne Université, CNRS-UMR 7590, 4 place Jussieu, 75252 Paris, France
| | - Sang Woo Joo
- School of Mechanical and IT Engineering, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan 38541, Republic of Korea
| | - C V Ramana
- Center for Advanced Materials Research (CMR), University of Texas at El Paso, 500 W University Avenue, El Paso, Texas 79968, United States
- Department of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at El Paso, 500 W University Avenue, El Paso, Texas 79968, United States
| |
Collapse
|
2
|
Fan X, Tan C, Li Y, Chen Z, Li Y, Huang Y, Pan Q, Zheng F, Wang H, Li Q. A green, efficient, closed-loop direct regeneration technology for reconstructing of the LiNi 0.5Co 0.2Mn 0.3O 2 cathode material from spent lithium-ion batteries. JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS 2021; 410:124610. [PMID: 33243647 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2020.124610] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2020] [Revised: 10/21/2020] [Accepted: 11/16/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
Abstract
Lithium nickel manganese cobalt oxide in the spent lithium ion batteries (LIBs) contains a lot of lithium, nickel, cobalt and manganese. However, how to effectively recover these valuable metals under the premise of reducing environmental pollution is still a challenge. In this work, a green, efficient, closed-loop direct regeneration technology is proposed to reconstruct LiNi0.5Co0.2Mn0.3O2 (NCM523) cathode materials from spent LIBs. Firstly, the failure mechanism of NCM523 cathode materials in the spent LIBs is analyzed deeply. It is found that the spent NCM523 material has problems such as the dissolution of lithium and transition metals, surface interface failure and structural transformation, resulting in serious deterioration of electrochemical performance. Then NCM523 material was directly regenerated by supplementing metal ions, granulation, ion doping and heat treatment. Meanwhile, PO43- polyanions were doped into the regenerated NCM material in the recovery process, showing excellent electrochemical performance with discharge capacity of 189.8 mAh g-1 at 0.1 C. The recovery process proposed in this study puts forward a new strategy for the recovery various lithium nickel cobalt manganese oxide (e.g., LiNi1/3Co1/3Mn1/3O2, LiNi0.5Co0.2Mn0.3O2, LiNi0.6Co0.2Mn0.2O2 and LiNi0.8Co0.1Mn0.1O2) and accelerates the industrialization of spent lithium ion battery recycling.
Collapse
Affiliation(s)
- Xiaoping Fan
- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Low Carbon Energy Materials, School of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Science, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China; Guangxi New Energy Ship Battery Engineering Technology Research Center, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China
| | - Chunlei Tan
- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Low Carbon Energy Materials, School of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Science, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China; Guangxi New Energy Ship Battery Engineering Technology Research Center, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China
| | - Yu Li
- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Low Carbon Energy Materials, School of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Science, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China; Guangxi New Energy Ship Battery Engineering Technology Research Center, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China
| | - Zhiqiang Chen
- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Low Carbon Energy Materials, School of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Science, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China; Guangxi New Energy Ship Battery Engineering Technology Research Center, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China
| | - Yahao Li
- State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, Key Laboratory of Advanced Materials and Applications for Batteries of Zhejiang Province, and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China.
| | - Youguo Huang
- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Low Carbon Energy Materials, School of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Science, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China; Guangxi New Energy Ship Battery Engineering Technology Research Center, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China
| | - Qichang Pan
- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Low Carbon Energy Materials, School of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Science, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China; Guangxi New Energy Ship Battery Engineering Technology Research Center, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China
| | - Fenghua Zheng
- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Low Carbon Energy Materials, School of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Science, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China; Guangxi New Energy Ship Battery Engineering Technology Research Center, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China.
| | - Hongqiang Wang
- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Low Carbon Energy Materials, School of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Science, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China; Guangxi New Energy Ship Battery Engineering Technology Research Center, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China
| | - Qingyu Li
- Guangxi Key Laboratory of Low Carbon Energy Materials, School of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Science, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China; Guangxi New Energy Ship Battery Engineering Technology Research Center, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China
| |
Collapse
|