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Characterization on the exothermic behaviors of cathode materials reacted with ethylene carbonate in lithium-ion battery studied by differential scanning calorimeter (DSC)

Duh, Y.-S.[Yih-Shing], Lee, C.-Y.[Chih-Yi], Chen, Y.-L.[Yu-Ling], Kao, C.-S.[Chen-Shan]
Thermochim. Acta 2016, 642, 88-94
ABSTRACT
Seven lithiated and delithiated cathode materials mixed with ethylene carbonate (EC) were studied by differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) for measuring exothermic phenomena. Effects of lithiated and delithiated cathode materials with EC upon the exothermic behaviors were verified and compared. Lithiated cathode materials keep higher stability than delithiated ones. LiCoO2, LiNi0.8Co0.2O2, LiNi1/3Mn1/3Co1/3O2 (NMC333), and LiNi0.5Mn0.3Co0.2O2 (NMC532) react with EC all exhibiting significant exothermic peaks at about (370 } 20) .C owing to the common component of Co ion. In the delithiated NMC333, NMC532 and LiNi0.8Co0.2O2, effects of Ni ion manifestly resulted in the lower onset temperatures and exothermic peaks than those of lithiated cathode materials. Especially, the onset temperature of delithiated LixNi0.5Mn0.3Co0.2O2 with EC appears at around 98.9 .C. EC with delithiated LixCoO2 displaying four peaks has been novel discovered and associated with a strong peak occurred at about 222.2 .C. Impacts of Ni, Mn, and Co ions on the thermal stability associated with the structural stability in deliathiated cathode materials under high temperature conditions are discussed.
Compounds
# Formula Name
1 C3H4O3 ethylene carbonate
Datasets
The table above is generated from the ThermoML associated json file (link above). POMD and RXND refer to PureOrMixture and Reaction Datasets. The compound numbers are included in properties, variables, and phases, if specificied; the numbers refer to the table of compounds on the left.
Type Compound-# Property Variable Constraint Phase Method #Points
  • POMD
  • 1
  • Normal melting temperature, K ; Crystal
  • Crystal
  • Liquid
  • Air at 1 atmosphere
  • DTA
  • 1