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Synthesis of Ionic Liquid Based Electrolytes, Assembly of Li-ion Batteries, and Measurements of Performance at High Temperature
Published on: December 20, 2016
Hypoeutectic Liquid-Solid Phase Diagrams for Ternary Lithium-Ion Battery Electrolytes
Julian Self1,2, Helen K Bergstrom3,4
1Department of Chemical Engineering, Polytechnique Montreal, PO Box 6079, Station Downtown, Montreal, Quebec H3C 3A7, Canada.
Abstract:
One of the current efforts of Li-ion battery technology research is to enable the operation of lithium-ion batteries in low temperature environments (<0 °C). However, the ternary phase diagrams of liquid electrolytes commonly used in lithium-ion cells are generally unknown. We herein study the liquidus surface of a ternary liquid electrolyte─up to 1 m LiPF6 in ethylene carbonate and ethyl methyl carbonate. We find that literature electrochemical and thermodynamic measurements of the composing binary electrolytes, in addition to limited ternary liquidus data, can be used to recover the liquidus surface via appropriate mixing terms.
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