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Design and Processing for High Performance Li-Ion Battery Electrodes
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Design and Processing for High Performance Li-Ion Battery Electrodes

A special issue of Batteries (ISSN 2313-0105). This special issue belongs to the section "Battery Processing, Manufacturing and Recycling".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2023) | Viewed by 2127

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Rachid Essehli

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Electrification and Energy Infrastructures Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
Interests: the synthesis, engineering and characterization of novel materials for electrochemical energy storage and conversion applications

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

I warmly invite you to publish original research or review papers in this Special Issue.

The potential topics of this Special Issue include, but are not limited to:

  • Material synthesis approaches for high-performance Li-ion battery electrodes at laboratory scales and upscaling to assess commercial viability using large-scale methods (solvo/hydrothermal processes and co-precipitation in CSTR reactors).
  • The characterization and study of crystal structures and phase transitions for high-performance cathode materials.
  • Cobalt-free cathode materials development for future automotive applications.
  • Li-rich NMC and high-voltage materials.
  • Battery electrodes with low-tortuosity porosity and high capacity.

Dr. Rachid Essehli
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Batteries is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2700 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • high-capacity cathode
  • high-voltage materials
  • Ni-rich cathode
  • co-free

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Impact of Mixing Shear on Polymer Binder Molecular Weight and Battery Electrode Reproducibility
by Samantha L. Morelly, Renee M. Saraka, Nicolas J. Alvarez and Maureen Tang
Batteries 2024, 10(2), 46; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/batteries10020046 - 27 Jan 2024
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The viscosity and microstructure of Li-ion battery slurries and the performance of the resulting electrodes have been shown to depend on the mixing protocol. This work applies rheology to understand the impact of shear during mixing and polymer molecular weight on slurry microstructure [...] Read more.
The viscosity and microstructure of Li-ion battery slurries and the performance of the resulting electrodes have been shown to depend on the mixing protocol. This work applies rheology to understand the impact of shear during mixing and polymer molecular weight on slurry microstructure and electrode performance. Mixing protocols of different shear intensity are applied to slurries of LiNi0.33Mn0.33Co0.33O2 (NMC), carbon black (CB), and polyvinyldiene difluoride (PVDF) in N-methyl-2-pyrrolidinone (NMP), using both high-molecular-weight (HMW) and low-molecular-weight (LMW) PVDF. Slurries of both polymers are observed to form colloidal gels under high-shear mixing, even though unfavorable interactions between high molecular weight PVDF and CB should prevent this microstructure from forming. Theoretical analysis and experimental results show that increasing shear rate during the polymer and particle mixing steps causes polymer scission to decrease the polymer molecular weight and allow colloidal gelation. In general, electrodes made from high molecular weight PVDF generally show increased rate capability. However, high shear rates lead to increased cell variability, possibly due to the heterogeneities introduced by polymer scission. Full article
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