The new role for lithium-ion Batteries: Which are the limits for this innovation?

MIT engineers produced what they called “world’s longest flexible fiber battery”, made with gel electrolytes that are fire resistant [1] – a very important technical parameter for many industries like Chemical industries, Aerospace and Defense.

The rechargeable battery can be woven and an interesting possibility to assemble aerospace composites filled with “woven batteries” is a high impact for aerospace vehicles. The advanced manufacturing techniques like 3D printing can make use of the fiber batteries of the reference [1] to build drones and other systems like wearable systems.

The advanced manufacturing processes like Advanced Atomic Layer Deposition for all solid batteries or enhancement of efficiency by deposition of other oxides and cold plasma, PEALD and other plasma processes for improvement of binding between surfaces and removing of impurities from the surfaces of electrodes, separators and current collectors [2 -6] are also important in new technologies for ilithium-ion batteries.

Since the time of the invention of rechargeable batteries, patented in Japan in 1985 by Professor Akira Yoshino (first rechargeable lithium-ion battery using a lithium-cobalt oxide and carbon-based anode) it seems that the life cycle of lithium-ion batteries is just beginning and more innovations will come.

Our first whitepaper, written by D.Sc. Rodrigo Maracajá Vaz de Lima is a brief review about the economy (and the "new economy") of the use of this rechargeable batteries (Part One), including wearables and plasma / cold plasma technologies to improve the Lithium-ion batteries capacity and efficiency. The Part Two is about the technics and results from M.Sc. thesis defended in 2003 [7], by our researcher, for Electrochemical and Structural Analysis of Li(1-x)Co(1-y)MyO2(M=Ni, Mn) obtained by Pechini’s Method: Ion Lithium Diffusion Coefficient obtained by Galvanostatic Intermittent Titration Technique [8-9]using Atomic Parameters for Li(1-x)Co(1-y)MyO2(M=Ni, Mn) after the refinement of X-Ray diffraction data by Rietveld Method [10-12].

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whitepaper - 01 -2023 - june 12th 2023 superseded the original published in June 11th 2023.

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Note: This text, published in June 12th 2023, superseded the original text, published in June 11th 2023, with minor revisions (the original cover is printed at the end of this document).

References cited in this post:

[1] MIT NEWS: MIT engineers produce the world’s longest flexible fiber battery - The rechargeable battery can be woven and washed, and could provide power for fiber-based electronic devices and sensors.https://news.mit.edu/2021/fiber-battery-longest-1220

[2] LU, W.; LIANG, L.; SUN, X.; SUN, X.; WU, C.; HOU, L.; SUN, J.; YUAN, C. Recent Progresses and Development of Advanced Atomic Layer Deposition towards High-Performance Li-Ion Batteries. Nanomaterials 2017, 7, 325. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano7100325

[3] GAO, YAN. "Enhanced electrochemical performance of Li-ion battery cathodes by atomic layer deposition" (2020). Doctoral Dissertations. 3074. https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/doctoral_dissertations/3074

[4] LI, TAO. "Plasma‐Assisted Electrolytic Deposition for Synthesizing Porous Flexible Binder‐Free Anodes of High‐Electrochemical Performance Lithium‐Ion Batteries" (2019). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 7717. https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/etd/7717

[5] TYCZKOWSKI, J. Cold Plasma – A Promising Tool for the Development of Electrochemical Cells, Electrochemical Cells - New Advances in Fundamental Researches and Applications, Dr. Yan Shao (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-51-0032-4, InTech, Available from: http://www.intechopen.com/books/electrochemical-cellsnew-advances-in-fundamental-researches-and-applications/cold-plasma-a-promising-tool-for-thedevelopment-of-electrochemical-cells

[6] NAVA-AVENDAÑO, J. AND VEILLEUX, J. Plasma processes in the preparation of lithium-ion battery electrodes and separators, 2017 IOP Publishing Ltd Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, Volume 50, Number 16, 2017 J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 50 163001. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6463/aa6245

[7] M.Sc. Thesis: VAZ DE LIMA, Rodrigo M., “Síntese e caracterização eletroquímica e estrutural de Li(1-x)Co(1-y)O2(M=Ni, Mn), (M= Ni, Mn), sintentizados pelo método dos precursores poliméricos (Pechini)” (Synthesis and Structural Characterization By Electrochemical Techniques and X-Rays Structure Determination of Li(1-x)Co(1-y)O2 (M=Ni, Mn), Synthesized by Polymeric Precursor Method (PECHINI), M.Sc. Thesis, 2003, Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil, 158p

[8] CRANK, J. “The Mathematics Of Diffusion” 2nd Edition, Oxford Science Publication, 1975 (Reimpressão de 1986), Bristol, UK.

[9] WEPPNER, W. & HUGGINS, R., A. “Determination of The Kinetic Parameters Of Mixed-Conduction Electrodes And Application To The System Li3Sb”. J. Electrochem. Society: Solid-State Science And Technology, 1977, VOL. 10 (124), 1569-1578pp. https://doi.org/10.1149/1.2133112

[10] YOUNG, R., A.; LARSON, A., C.; PAIVA-SANTOS, C.,O. User’s Guide To Program Dbws – 9807a (Extended To Size 2k) For Rietveld Analysis Of X-Ray And Neutron Powder Diffraction Patterns With A ‘Pc’ And Various Others Computers” School Of Phhysics G.I.T. – Atlanta, Ga, 1998, E.U.A.

[11] ICDD “Powder Diffraction File (Pdf-2). Database Sets 1- 44 (International Centre For Diffraction Data), 1994, Pennsilvania, USA (Pdf#16-0427).

[12] SANTIAGO, E., I.; ANDRADE, A.,V.,C.; PAIVA-SANTOS, C.O, L., O., S., BULHÕES, Structural and electrochemical properties of LiCoO2 prepared by combustion synthesis Solid State Ionics, 91-102 (2003) 158pp. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0167-2738(02)00765-8