https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-discover-promising-new-electrolyte-for-solid-state-lithium-ion-batteries/
"Researchers from the University of Waterloo,
Canada, who are members of the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research
(JCESR), headquartered at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne
National Laboratory, have discovered a new solid electrolyte that
offers several important advantages."
"This electrolyte, composed of lithium, scandium, indium, and chlorine,
conducts lithium ions well but electrons poorly. This combination is
essential to creating an all-solid-state battery that functions without
significantly losing capacity for over a hundred cycles at high voltage
(above 4 volts) and thousands of cycles at intermediate voltage. The
chloride nature of the electrolyte is key to its stability at operating
conditions above 4 volts — meaning it is suitable for typical cathode
materials that form the mainstay of today’s lithium-ion cells."
“The main attraction of a solid-state electrolyte is that it can’t catch
fire, and it allows for efficient placement in the battery cell; we
were pleased to demonstrate stable high-voltage operation,” said Linda
Nazar, a Distinguished Research Professor of Chemistry at UWaterloo and a
long-time member of JCESR.
"A paper based on the research, “High areal capacity, long cycle life 4
V ceramic all-solid-state Li-ion batteries enabled by chloride solid
electrolytes,” appeared in the January 3 online edition of Nature Energy."
Reference: “High areal capacity, long cycle life 4 V ceramic
all-solid-state Li-ion batteries enabled by chloride solid electrolytes”
by Laidong Zhou, Tong-Tong Zuo, Chun Yuen Kwok, Se Young Kim,
Abdeljalil Assoud, Qiang Zhang, Jürgen Janek and Linda F. Nazar, 3
January 2022, Nature Energy.
DOI: 10.1038/s41560-021-00952-0
