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Enhancing the Reversibility of Lithium Cobalt Oxide Phase Transition in Thick Electrode via Low Tortuosity Design
Renjie He1,2, Gangling Tian1, Shuping Li1
1State Key Laboratory of Advanced Electromagnetic Engineering and Technology, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, P.R. China.
Abstract:
Lithium cobalt oxide (LCO) is a widely used cathode material for lithium-ion batteries. However, it suffers from irreversible phase transition during cycling because of high cutoff voltage or huge concentration polarization in thick electrode, resulting in deteriorated cyclability. Here, we design a low tortuous LiCoO2 (LCO-LT) electrode by ice-templating method and investigate the reversibility of LCO phase transition. LCO-LT thick electrode shows accelerated lithium-ion transport and reduced concentration polarization, achieving excellent rate capability and homogeneous actual operating voltage. Moreover, LCO-LT thick electrode exhibits a durable phase transition between O2 and H1-3, mitigated volume expansion, and suppressed microcrack formation. LCO-LT electrode (25 mg cm-2) delivers improved capacity retentions of 94.4% after 200 cycles and 93.3% after 150 cycles at cutoff voltages of 4.3 and 4.5 V, respectively. This strategy provides a new concept to improve the reversibility of LCO phase transition in thick electrode by low tortuosity design.
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