Yoon Seok Jung

Abstract Owing to the ever‐increasing safety concerns about conventional lithium‐ion batteries, whose applications have expanded to include electric vehicles and grid‐scale energy storage, batteries with solidified electrolytes that utilize nonflammable inorganic materials are attracting considerable attention. In particular, owing to their superionic conductivities (as high as ≈10 −2 S cm −1 ) and deformability, sulfide materials as the solid electrolytes (SEs) are considered the enabling mater

Direct atomic layer deposition (ALD) on composite electrodes leads to ultrathin conformal protective coatings without disrupting inter-particle electronic pathways. Al2O3-coated natural graphite (NG) electrodes obtained by direct ALD on the as-formed electrode show exceptionally durable capacity retention even at an elevated temperature of 50 °C. In sharp contrast, ALD on powder results in poorer cycle retention than bare NG. Detailed facts of importance to specialist readers are published as ”S

All-solid-state sodium-ion batteries that operate at room temperature are attractive candidates for use in large-scale energy storage systems. However, materials innovation in solid electrolytes is imperative to fulfill multiple requirements, including high conductivity, functional synthesis protocols for achieving intimate ionic contact with active materials, and air stability. A new, highly conductive (1.1 mS cm(-1) at 25 °C, Ea =0.20 eV) and dry air stable sodium superionic conductor, tetrago

Enhanced Stability of LiCoO2 Cathodes in Lithium-Ion Batteries Using Surface Modification by Atomic Layer Deposition, Jung, Yoon Seok, Cavanagh, Andrew S., Dillon, Anne C., Groner, Markus D., George, Steven M., Lee, Se-Hee

A new, highly conductive (4.1 × 10(-4) S cm(-1) at 30 °C), highly deformable, and dry-air-stable glass 0.4LiI-0.6Li4 SnS4 is prepared using a homogeneous methanol solution. The solution process enables the wetting of any exposed surface of the active materials with highly conductive solidified electrolytes (0.4LiI-0.6Li4 SnS4), resulting in considerable improvements in the electrochemical performance of these electrodes over conventional mixture electrodes.

Recently, halide superionic conductors have emerged as promising solid electrolyte (SE) materials for all-solid-state batteries (ASSBs), owing to their inherent properties combining high Li+ conductivity, good chemical and electrochemical oxidation stabilities, and mechanical deformability, compared to sulfide or oxide SEs. In this Review, recent advances in halide Li+- and Na+-conducting SEs are comprehensively summarized. After introducing the ionic diffusion mechanism and related governing fa

Abstract Two newly emerging materials for application in all‐solid‐state batteries, namely, single‐crystalline Ni‐rich layered oxide cathode and halide solid electrolyte (SE), are of utmost interest because of their superior properties (good microstructural integrity and excellent electrochemical oxidation stability, respectively) to conventional polycrystalline layered oxides and sulfide SEs. In this work, four electrodes employing single‐ or polycrystalline LiNi 0.88 Co 0.11 Al 0.01 O 2 (NCA)

Abstract Owing to the combined advantages of sulfide and oxide solid electrolytes (SEs), that is, mechanical sinterability and excellent (electro)chemical stability, recently emerging halide SEs such as Li 3 YCl 6 are considered to be a game changer for the development of all‐solid‐state batteries. However, the use of expensive central metals hinders their practical applicability. Herein, a new halide superionic conductors are reported that are free of rare‐earth metals: hexagonal close‐packed (

Abstract As lithium rechargeable batteries are considered a potential candidate for large‐scale energy storage applications in devices such as electric vehicles (EVs) and smart grids, their safety has become of prime concern. This calls for the need to replace the flammable organic liquid electrolyte (LE) with an inorganic solid electrolyte (SE), and thus, develop bulk‐type all‐solid‐state lithium batteries (ASLBs), fabricated using a scalable process. Sulfide SEs are considered the most competi

Abstract While Ni‐rich cathode materials combined with highly conductive and mechanically sinterable sulfide solid electrolytes are imperative for practical all‐solid‐state Li batteries (ASLBs), they suffer from poor performance. Moreover, the prevailing wisdom regarding the use of Li[Ni,Co,Mn]O 2 in conventional liquid electrolyte cells, that is, increased capacity upon increased Ni content, at the expense of degraded cycling stability, has not been applied in ASLBs. In this work, the effect of

Abstract Atomic layer deposition (ALD) of Al 2 O 3 is applied on a polypropylene separator for lithium‐ion batteries. A thin Al 2 O 3 layer (<10 nm) is coated on every surface of the porous polymer microframework without significantly increasing the total separator thickness. The thin Al 2 O 3 ALD coating results in significantly suppressed thermal shrinkage, which may lead to improved safety of the batteries. More importantly, the wettability of Al 2 O 3 ALD‐coated separators in an extremely

Abstract The performance of Al 2 O 3 atomic layer deposition (ALD) coatings for LiCoO 2 /natural graphite (LCO/NG) batteries is investigated, where various permutations of the electrodes are coated in a full battery. Coating both electrodes with ∼1 nm of alumina as well as coating only the LCO (positive electrode) enables improved performance when cycling at high voltage, where the LCO is known to degrade. However, we found that coating only the NG (negative electrode) also improves the performa

Most inorganic solid electrolytes (SEs) suffer from narrow intrinsic electrochemical windows and incompatibility with electrode materials, which results in the below par electrochemical performances of all-solid-state Li-ion or Li batteries (ASLBs). Unfortunately, in-depth understanding on the interfacial evolution and interfacial engineering via scalable protocols for ASLBs to mitigate these issues are at an infancy stage. Herein, we report on rationally designed Li3BO3–Li2CO3 (LBO-LCO or Li3–x