Citation: Pei Liu, Hongbin Wang, Tao Huang, Liewu Li, Wei Xiong, Shaoluan Huang, Xiangzhong Ren, Xiaoping Ouyang, Jiangtao Hu, Qianling Zhang, Jianhong Liu. Cost-effective natural graphite reengineering technology for lithium ion batteries[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2024, 35(1): 108330. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2023.108330 shu

Cost-effective natural graphite reengineering technology for lithium ion batteries

Pei Liu ^{a, 1} ,
Hongbin Wang ^{a, 1} ,
Tao Huang ^a ,
Liewu Li ^a ,
Wei Xiong ^b ,
Shaoluan Huang ^b ,
Xiangzhong Ren ^a ,
Xiaoping Ouyang ^{a, c} ,
Jiangtao Hu ^{a, *,} ,
Qianling Zhang ^{a, *,} ,
Jianhong Liu ^{a, b, *,}

a.
Graphene Composite Research Center, College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
b.
Shenzhen Eigen–Equation Graphene Technology Co., Ltd., Shenzhen 518000, China
c.
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan 411105, China

hujt@szu.edu.cn

zhql@szu.edu.cn

liujh@szu.edu.cn

Received Date: 29 December 2022
Revised Date: 7 March 2023
Accepted Date: 9 March 2023
Available Online: 15 March 2023

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Graphite tailings produced by natural graphite is usually regarded as garbage to be buried underground, which would result in a certain waste of resources. Here, in order to explore the utilization of natural graphite tailings (NGT), a liquid-polyacrylonitrile (LPAN) is used to modify the NGT fragments and aggregate them together to form secondary graphite particles with low surface area and high tap density. Moreover, the modified NGT show much better electrochemical performances than those of original one. When tested in full cells coupled with NMC532 cathode, the material achieves a high rate capability and cycle stability at the cutoff voltage of 4.25 V as well as 4.45 V, which maintains 84.32% capacity retention after 500 cycles at 1 C rate (4.25 V), higher than that of the pristine one (73.65%). The enhanced performances can be attributed to the use of LPAN to create a unique carbon layer upon graphite tailings to reconstruct surface and repair defects, and also to granulate an isotropic structure of secondary graphite particles, which can help to weaken the anisotropy of Li⁺ diffusion pathway and form a uniform, complete and stable solid-electrolyte-interface (SEI) on the surface of primary NGT fragments to promote a fast Li⁺ diffusion and suppress lithium metal dendrites upon charge and discharge.
- Natural graphite,
- Reengineering technology,
- Liquid-polyacrylonitrile,
- Lithium ion batteries,
- High performance
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