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Influences on power performances of metal oxide additives for LiFePO4 electrodes

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Metal oxide additives are added into LiFePO4 electrodes attempting to improve cell power performances. Electrochemical performances are tested with 5 wt% different sizes of neutral alumina, nano Al2O3, and nano MgO individually comparing with those with 5 wt% more active LiFePO4 and acetylene black. The polarization between charge and discharge plateaus is reduced not only by adding more conductive acetylene black, but also by adding all these insulated metal oxide additives. Adding natural alumina and nano MgO can significantly increase rate capacities. This might be because of their “lithium ion saver” effect.

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This work is supported by the MOST (Grant no. 2011CB935902, no. 2013CB934000, no. 2014DFG71590, no. 2010DFA72760, no. 2011CB711202, no. 2013AA050903, no.2011AA11A257, and no. 2011AA11A254), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant no. 2013M530599 and no. 2013M540929), the Tsinghua University Initiative Scientific Research Program (Grant no. 2010THZ08116, no.2011THZ08139, no.2011THZ01004, and no. 2012THZ08129), and the State Key Laboratory of Automotive Safety and Energy (Grant no. ZZ2012-011). This research is also financially supported by Alees (Advanced Lithium Electrochemistry Co., Ltd). We are highly appreciative of the help from Associate Professor Jiaping Wang and Fei Zhao in Tsinghua-Foxconn Nanocenter. We are grateful for Engineer Hongying Liao in Beijing Institute of Chemical Reagents for her help on testing HF content in electrolyte.

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    Xiankun Huang, Xiangming He & Changyin Jiang

  2. State Key Laboratory of Automotive Safety and Energy, Tsinghua University, 100084, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

    Guangyu Tian

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Huang, X., He, X., Jiang, C. et al. Influences on power performances of metal oxide additives for LiFePO4 electrodes. Ionics 20, 1517–1523 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11581-014-1132-1

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