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We report the fabrication and electrochemical performance of metal-foil free Li4Ti5O12 (LTO) and LiNi1/3Co1/3Mn1/3O2 (NCM) electrodes supported on conductive and porous reduced graphene oxide/poly(acrylic acid) (rGO-PAA) aerogels. The highly porous rGO-PAA (∼6 mg cm-3) enables slurry infiltration of LTO and NCM to form composite electrodes with tunable mass loadings (∼3-30 mg cm-2), and the resultant composites can withstand 100-fold compression (from 3.2 mm to ∼30-130 μm) to achieve electrode densities of 2-3 g cm-3. The adequate compressibility of the rGO-PAA coupled with removal of the conventional metal-foil weight and volume provides high volumetric energy densities of 1723 Wh L-1 for NCM and 625 Wh L-1 for LTO at low power density, representing a 25% increase in energy density over similar electrodes built with metal-foil current collectors. These metrics demonstrate the utility of the rGO-PAA current collector to reduce the weight and volume of lithium-ion electrodes without sacrificing energy density.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 905-912 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | ACS Applied Energy Materials |
Volume | 2 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 28 2019 |
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Publisher Copyright:© 2018 American Chemical Society.
Keywords
- 3D electrode
- Aerogel
- Lithium ion battery
- Reduced graphene oxide
- Volumetric energy density
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