Fabrication and Performance of All-Solid-State Li-Air Battery with SWCNTs/LAGP Cathode

Yijie Liu; Bojie Li; Hirokazu Kitaura; Xueping Zhang; Min Han; Ping He; Haoshen Zhou

doi:10.1021/acsami.5b04409

Fabrication and Performance of All-Solid-State Li-Air Battery with SWCNTs/LAGP Cathode

ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2015 Aug 12;7(31):17307-10. doi: 10.1021/acsami.5b04409. Epub 2015 Jul 28.

Authors

Yijie Liu¹, Bojie Li¹, Hirokazu Kitaura², Xueping Zhang¹, Min Han¹, Ping He¹, Haoshen Zhou^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ †College of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China.
² ‡Energy Technology Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Umezono 1-1-1, Tsukuba, 305-8568, Japan.

PMID: 26177186
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b04409

Abstract

The all-solid-state Li-air battery has been fabricated, which is constructed by a lithium foil anode, a NASICON-type solid state electrolyte Li1+xAlyGe2-y(PO4)3 (LAGP) and single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs)/LAGP nanoparticles composite as air electrode. Its electrochemical performance was investigated in air atmosphere. Particularly, this battery exhibited a larger capacity about 2800 mAh g(-1) for the first cycle, while comparatively the battery with multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs)/LAGP as cathode had a capacity of only about 1700 mAh g(-1). Also, the battery with SWCNTs/LAGP showed improved cycling performance with a reversible capacity of 1000 mAh g(-1) at a current density of 200 mA g(-1). Our result demonstrated that the all-solid-state Li-air battery with SWCNTs/LAGP as cathode catalyst has a considerable potential for practical application.

Keywords: Li−air batteries; SWCNTs; air electrode catalyst; all-solid-state; solid-state electrolyte.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't