Title
Broad temperature dependence, high conductivity, and structure-property relations of cold sintering of LLZO-based composite electrolytes
Date Issued
01 December 2020
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Seo J.H.
Nakaya H.
Takeuchi Y.
Fan Z.
Hikosaka H.
Rajagopalan R.
Iwasaki M.
Randall C.A.
University Park
Publisher(s)
Elsevier Ltd
Abstract
The garnet-type LLZO is one of the most attractive, highly conductive ceramic materials for all-solid-state Li batteries. However, there are so many challenges, such as high temperature sintering for many hours, and air and moisture sensitivity of the materials. In this study, to overcome these obstacles for practical application, we synthesized high conductivity LLZO raw material with Mg, Sr substitution and applied a low temperature sintering process, namely cold sintering, to densify the LLZO-SM-based composites. The LLZO-SM-base composite electrolyte was densified using cold sintering process with DMF as a partially transient liquid phase at 120 °C, and the resulting composite shows a high conductivity of 10−4 S/cm. Moreover, the cold sintered composite electrolyte exhibits high conductivity under a wide range of temperature, as well as good microstructures and grain boundary interfaces. Furthermore, the all-solid-state Li-ion battery with cold sintered composite delivering high capacity was fabricated as a basic demonstration. These promising results demonstrated the feasibility of the cold sintering process for development of solid-state electrolytes and fabrication of all-solid-state Li batteries.
Start page
6241
End page
6248
Volume
40
Issue
15
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Electroquímica Ingeniería de materiales
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85087292573
Source
Journal of the European Ceramic Society
ISSN of the container
09552219
DOI of the container
10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2020.06.050
Source funding
MRI-MCL
NGK Spark Plug Co. Ltd
Sponsor(s)
This work was supported by a corporate sponsored program of NGK Spark Plug Co. Ltd. The authors would like to thank the MRI-MCL at The Pennsylvania State University for the use of characterization facilities.
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