《Atomic to Nanoscale Origin of Vinylene Carbonate Enhanced Cycling Stability of Lithium Metal Anode Revealed by Cryo-Transmission Electron Microscopy》 was written by Xu, Yaobin; Wu, Haiping; He, Yang; Chen, Qingsong; Zhang, Ji-Guang; Xu, Wu; Wang, Chongmin. Quality Control of Vinylene carbonateThis research focused onvinylene carbonate enhanced cycling lithium anode cryotransmission electron microscopy; lithium ion battery vinylene carbonate electrolyte additive safety; Lithium (Li) metal; cryogenic transmission electron microscopy (cryo-TEM); electrochemical deposition; electrolyte; solid electrolyte interphase (SEI); vinylene carbonate (VC). The article conveys some information:
Batteries using lithium (Li) metal as the anode are considered promising energy storage systems because of their high specific energy densities. The crucial bottlenecks for Li metal anode are Li dendrites growth and side reactions with electrolyte inducing safety concern, low Coulombic efficiency (CE), and short cycle life. Vinylene carbonate (VC), as an effective electrolyte additive in Li-ion batteries, has been noticed to significantly enhance the CE, whereas the origin of such an additive remains unclear. Here cryogenic transmission electron microscopy imaging combing with energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy elemental and electron energy loss spectroscopy electronic structure analyses are used to reveal the role of the VC additive. It is discovered that the electrochem. deposited Li metal (EDLi) in the VC-containing electrolyte is slightly oxidized with the solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) being a nanoscale mosaic-like structure comprised of organic species, Li2O and Li2CO3, whereas the EDLi formed in the VC-free electrolyte is featured by a combination of fully oxidized Li with Li2O SEI layer and pure Li metal with multilayer nanostructured SEI. These results highlight the possible tuning of crucial structural and chem. features of EDLi and SEI through additives and consequently direct correlation with electrochem. performance, providing valuable guidelines to rational selection, design, and synthesis of additives for new battery chemistries. After reading the article, we found that the author used Vinylene carbonate(cas: 872-36-6Quality Control of Vinylene carbonate)
Vinylene carbonate(cas: 872-36-6) belongs to esters. Alkyl carbonates find applications as solvents for lithium ion battery electrolytes and the use of high quality battery grade electrolytes having extremely low water (<10 ppm) and acid (<10 ppm) contents are critical for achieving high electrochemical performance.Quality Control of Vinylene carbonate
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