Publication Date
10-2-2019
Department
Ames Laboratory; Materials Science and Engineering
Campus Units
Ames Laboratory, Materials Science and Engineering
OSTI ID+
1569737
Report Number
IS-J 10037
DOI
10.1016/j.matt.2019.05.004
Journal Title
Matter
Volume Number
1
Issue Number
4
First Page
1001
Last Page
1016
Abstract
Solid electrolytes, as a promising replacement for the flammable liquid electrolyte in conventional Li-ion batteries, may greatly alleviate the safety issues and improve the energy density. However, mainstream electrodes are also solid. If solid electrolytes were employed, creating intimate electrode-electrolyte contact similar to that between solid and liquid would be quite difficult. Here we discovered that, by forming epitaxial interfaces, such a seamless solid-solid contact can happen between two widely studied systems: the Li-rich layered electrode and perovskite solid electrolyte. Atomic-resolution electron microscopy unambiguously demonstrated that the former can be epitaxially embedded into the latter. The solid-solid composite electrode formed this way exhibited a rate capability no lower than the one based on solid-liquid contact. With the periodic misfit dislocations reconciling structural differences, such epitaxy can tolerate large lattice mismatch, and thus may occur between many layered electrodes and perovskite solid electrolytes.
DOE Contract Number(s)
2017YFA0208300; 2018YFA0209600; 51802302; 51788104; WK2060190085; WK2340000076
Language
en
Publisher
Iowa State University Digital Repository, Ames IA (United States)
