{"title":"Investigating oxidative stability of lithium-ion battery electrolytes using synthetic charge-discharge profile voltammetry","authors":"Alma Mathew , Matthew J. Lacey , Daniel Brandell","doi":"10.1016/j.powera.2021.100071","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Electrolytes are an integral part of any electrochemical energy storage systems, including batteries. Among the many properties which determine the applicability of a Li-ion battery electrolyte, electrochemical stability – and for high voltage electrodes, in particular anodic stability – is a key parameter to consider. Despite being simple and straightforward to employ, the conventional linear sweep voltammetry (LSV) technique often leads to an over-estimation of the oxidative stability. In this study, an alternative approach termed Synthetic Charge-discharge Profile Voltammetry (SCPV) is explored to investigate the oxidative electrolyte stability. We have found this to be a convenient method of quantifying the anodic stability of the electrolyte in a more practically representative manner, in which passivation kinetics and electrode potential changes at the electrode-electrolyte interface are more appropriately reproduced. The viability of this technique is explored with liquid electrolytes based on ether, carbonate, sulfone and carbonate-sulfone mixtures, all with lithium hexafluorophosphate (LiPF<sub>6</sub>) salt, tested for a potential profile equivalent to LiNi<sub>0.5</sub>Mn<sub>1.5</sub>O<sub>4</sub> electrodes. The credibility of this technique is validated by correlations to the coulombic efficiencies of corresponding half-cells.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":34318,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Power Sources Advances","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.4000,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666248521000263/pdfft?md5=645c56c0f30bcf8eddad0fe50e6a2292&pid=1-s2.0-S2666248521000263-main.pdf","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Power Sources Advances","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666248521000263","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Electrolytes are an integral part of any electrochemical energy storage systems, including batteries. Among the many properties which determine the applicability of a Li-ion battery electrolyte, electrochemical stability – and for high voltage electrodes, in particular anodic stability – is a key parameter to consider. Despite being simple and straightforward to employ, the conventional linear sweep voltammetry (LSV) technique often leads to an over-estimation of the oxidative stability. In this study, an alternative approach termed Synthetic Charge-discharge Profile Voltammetry (SCPV) is explored to investigate the oxidative electrolyte stability. We have found this to be a convenient method of quantifying the anodic stability of the electrolyte in a more practically representative manner, in which passivation kinetics and electrode potential changes at the electrode-electrolyte interface are more appropriately reproduced. The viability of this technique is explored with liquid electrolytes based on ether, carbonate, sulfone and carbonate-sulfone mixtures, all with lithium hexafluorophosphate (LiPF6) salt, tested for a potential profile equivalent to LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4 electrodes. The credibility of this technique is validated by correlations to the coulombic efficiencies of corresponding half-cells.