New Technique for Probing the Protecting Character of the Solid Electrolyte Interphase as a Critical but Elusive Property for Pursuing Long Cycle Life Lithium-Ion Batteries

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New Technique for Probing the Protecting Character of the Solid Electrolyte Interphase as a Critical but Elusive Property for Pursuing Long Cycle Life Lithium-Ion Batteries García-Quismondo, Enrique Alvarez-Conde, Sandra García, Guzmán Medina-Santos, Jesús I. Palma, Jesús Ventosa Arbaizar, Edgar Cycle life Solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) Protecting character Coulometry method Redox mediator The formation of a protecting nanolayer, so-called solid electrolyte interphase (SEI), on the negative electrode of Li-ion batteries (LIBs) from product precipitation of the cathodic decomposition of the electrolyte is a blessing since the electrically insulating nature of this nanolayer protects the electrode surface, preventing continuous electrolyte decomposition and enabling the large nominal cell voltage of LIBs, e.g., 3.3−3.8 V. Thus, the protection performance of the nanolayer SEI is essential for LIBs to achieve a long cycle life. Unfortunately, the evaluation of this critical property of the SEI is not trivial. Herein, a new, cheap, and easily implementable methodology, the redox-mediated enhanced coulometry, is presented to estimate the protecting quality of the SEI. The key element of the methodology is the addition of a redox mediator in the electrolyte during the degassing step (after the SEI formation cycle). The redox mediator leads to an internal self-discharge process that is inversely proportional to the protecting character of the SEI. Also, the self-discharge process results in an easily measurable decrease in Coulombic efficiency. The influence of vinylene carbonate as an electrolyte additive in the resulting SEI is used as a case study to showcase the potential of the proposed methodology. 2023-02-07 2023-02-07 2022-09 info:eu-repo/semantics/article 1944-8244 http://hdl.handle.net/10259/7406 10.1021/acsami.2c11992 1944-8252 eng ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 2022, V. 14, n. 38, p. 43319-43327 https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.2c11992 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/AEI/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2017-2020/RTI2018-099228-A-I00/ES/BATERIAS INJECTABLES DE ELECTRODES SEMI-SOLIDOS/ info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/AEI/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2017-2020/RYC2018-026086-I/ES/ info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/861962/EU/GHz nanoscale electrical and dielectric measurements of the solid-electrolyte interface and applications in the battery manufacturing line/NanoBat/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atribución 4.0 Internacional American Chemical Society