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Na-ion batteries have taken more interest in recent years as an alternative battery chemistry to Li-ion batteries because of material abundance, cost, and sufficient volumetric energy density for large-scale energy storage applications. However, Na-ion batteries suffer from rapid capacity fade associated with chemo-mechanical instabilities such as the formation of resistive solid-electrolyte / cathode-electrolyte interphase (SEI/CEI) layers, irreversible phase formations, and particle fracture. The cathode materials are fragile, especially metal oxides, therefore Na-ion cathodes are more prone to mechanical deformations upon larger volumetric expansions/reductions during Na-ion intercalation. Electrolyte additives have been utilized to improve the electrochemical performance of Li-ion and Na-ion batteries by modifying the chemistry of the SEI layers. In situ stress measurements on Si anode in Li-ion batteries demonstrated the generation of less mechanical deformations in the electrode when cycled in the presence of FEC additives.1However, there is not much known about the impact of electrolyte additives on the chemo-mechanical properties of CEI layers in Na-ion battery cathodes. Furthermore, the question still stands about how the electrolyte additives may impact the mechanical stability of the Na-ion cathodes. To address this gap, we systematically investigated the role of FEC additives on the electrochemical performance and associated chemo-mechanical instabilities in NaCrO2 cathodes. Experiments were performed in organic electrolytes with/without FEC additives. First, the talk will start with presenting the impact of FEC additives on the capacity retention and cyclic voltammeter profiles of NaCrO2 cathodes. Then, digital image correlation and multi-beam optical stress sensor techniques were employed to probe electrochemical strain and stress generation in the composite NaCrO2 cathodes during electrochemical cycling in organic electrolytes with/without FEC additives. Surface chemistry of the NaCrO2 cathodes after cycling was investigated with the FT-IR measurements. In summary, the talk will present contrast differences in the electrochemical and chemo-mechanical properties of NaCrO2 cathodes when cycled in the presence of the FEC additives. Acknowledgement: This work is supported by National Science Foundation (award number 2321405). Reference: 1) Tripathi et al 2023 J. Electrochem. Soc. 170 090544
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Composition and state prediction of lithium-ion cathode via convolutional neural network trained on scanning electron microscopy images
Abstract High-throughput materials research is strongly required to accelerate the development of safe and high energy-density lithium-ion battery (LIB) applicable to electric vehicle and energy storage system. The artificial intelligence, including machine learning with neural networks such as Boltzmann neural networks and convolutional neural networks (CNN), is a powerful tool to explore next-generation electrode materials and functional additives. In this paper, we develop a prediction model that classifies the major composition (e.g., 333, 523, 622, and 811) and different states (e.g., pristine, pre-cycled, and 100 times cycled) of various Li(Ni, Co, Mn)O2(NCM) cathodes via CNN trained on scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images. Based on those results, our trained CNN model shows a high accuracy of 99.6% where the number of test set is 3840. In addition, the model can be applied to the case of untrained SEM data of NCM cathodes with functional electrolyte additives.
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- PAR ID:
- 10532709
- Publisher / Repository:
- NPJ Computational Materials
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- npj Computational Materials
- Volume:
- 10
- Issue:
- 1
- ISSN:
- 2057-3960
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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