van den Bergh, Wessel;
Larison, Taylor;
Jara Fornerod, Maximiliano Jesus;
Guldin, Stefan;
Stefik, Morgan;
(2022)
Faster Intercalation Pseudocapacitance Enabled by Adjustable Amorphous Titania where Tunable Isomorphic Architectures Reveal Accelerated Lithium Diffusivity.
Batteries & Supercaps
, 5
(7)
, Article e202200122. 10.1002/batt.202200122.
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Abstract
Intercalation pseudocapacitance is a faradaic electrochemical phenomenon with high power and energy densities, combining the attractive features of capacitors and batteries, respectively. Intercalation pseudocapacitive responses exhibit surface-limited kinetics by definition, without restriction from the collective of diffusion-based processes. The surface-limited threshold (SLT) corresponds to the maximum voltage sweep rate (vSLT) exhibiting a predominantly surface-limited current response prior to the onset of diffusion-limitations. Prior studies showed increased lithium diffusivity for amorphous titania compared to anatase. Going beyond prior binary comparisons, here a continuum of amorphous titania configurations were prepared using a series of calcination temperatures to tailor both amorphous character and content. The corresponding amorphous-phase vSLT increased monotonically by 317 % with lowered calcination temperatures. Subsequent isomorphic comparisons varying a single transport parameter at a time identified solid-state lithium diffusion as the dominant diffusive constraint. Thus, performance improvements were linked to increasing the lithium diffusivity of the amorphous phase with decreased calcination temperature. This remarkably enabled 95 % capacity retention (483±17 C/g) with 30 s of delithiation (120 C equivalent). These results highlight how isomorphic sample series can reveal previously unidentified trends by reducing ambiguity and reiterate the potential of amorphization to realize increased performance in known materials.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Faster Intercalation Pseudocapacitance Enabled by Adjustable Amorphous Titania where Tunable Isomorphic Architectures Reveal Accelerated Lithium Diffusivity |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1002/batt.202200122 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1002/batt.202200122 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2022 The Authors. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes. |
| Keywords: | amorphization, lithium-ion, nanomaterials, pseudocapacitance, titania |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Chemical Engineering UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10147081 |
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