TY  - JOUR
AU  - Moon, Junmo
AU  - Thiangtham, Satita
AU  - Zheng, Ruijie
AU  - Liu, Sicheng
AU  - Chokradjaroen, Chayanaphat
AU  - Sawada, Yasuyuki
AU  - Saito, Nagahiro
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/02/20
TI  - The Liquid-Mediated Synthesis and Performance Evaluation of Li-Zr-F Composite for Ion-Conduction
JO  - Journal of Energy and Power Technology
SP  - 010
VL  - 05
IS  - 01
AB  - Crystalline lithium fluoride (LiF) has been intensively pursued as potential alternative solid electrolytes (SEs) owing to its excellent chemical and electrochemical oxidation stability, and good deformability. However, due to its low ion conductivity, LiF is still challenging for practical SE applications. Herein, Li-Zr-F composite-based SE by liquid-mediated synthesis is proposed to be studied. methanol (CH3OH) was mainly evaluated as a liquid-mediated precursor for synthesizing Li-Zr-F composites under the stoichiometric proportion of LiF and ZrF4 (2:1 and 2:0.8) and a subsequent annealing process at 25°C/150°C, 50°C/150°C, and 70°C/150°C, respectively. X-ray diffraction results revealed that the Li-Zr-F composites could be crystallized in the three main types of phase formations, including Li2ZrF6 ( ), Li2ZrF6 ( ), and Li4ZrF8 ( ) octahedron structures. In addition, the effect of cation   stack sublattice synthesized by methanol mediator on the ion conduction of Li-Zr-F composites was investigated by using electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). Through the Zr4+-substitution, Li2ZrF6 ( )-based SE exhibited the highest ion conduction which was increased to 2.40 × 10-8 S/cm and 3.89 × 10-8 S/cm under the stoichiometric proportion of LiF and ZrF4 2:0.8 at a dried temperature of 50°C/150°C with, respectively. A 0.21 eV activation energy ( ) was achieved for a battery with Li2ZrF6 ( )-based SE. Meanwhile, LiF exhibited   up to 0.78 eV leading to a low kinetic rate for ion diffusion. These results implied that Li2ZrF6 ( )-based SE was successfully synthesized under the optimal condition of CH3OH-50°C/150°C which could improve the ion-conductivity of LiF.
SN  - 2690-1692
UR  - https://doi.org/10.21926/jept.2301010
DO  - 10.21926/jept.2301010
ID  - Moon2023
ER  -