Water-Based Electrode Manufacturing and Direct Recycling of Lithium-Ion Battery Electrodes-A Green and Sustainable Manufacturing System.

Electrochemical Energy Storage Energy Sustainability Manufacturing

Journal

iScience
ISSN: 2589-0042
Titre abrégé: iScience
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101724038

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
22 May 2020
Historique:
received: 16 12 2019
revised: 31 03 2020
accepted: 14 04 2020
pubmed: 8 5 2020
medline: 8 5 2020
entrez: 8 5 2020
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

It is critical to develop a low-cost and environmentally friendly system to manufacture and recycle lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) as the demand on LIBs keeps increasing dramatically. Conventional LIB cathodes are manufactured using N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone as the solvent, which is expensive, highly toxic, flammable, and energy intensive to produce and recover. Ideally, a close-loop industrial supply chain should be built, in which the batteries are manufactured, market harvested, and recycled with minimal external toxic solvent through the whole system. This work demonstrates a green and more sustainable manufacturing method for LIBs where no hazardous organic solvent is used during electrode manufacturing and recycling. The electrodes fabricated via water-based processing demonstrate comparable rate performance and cycle life to the ones from conventional solvent-based processing. Utilization of a water-soluble binder enables recovering the cathode compound from spent electrodes using water, which is successfully regenerated to deliver comparable electrochemical performance to the pristine one.

Identifiants

pubmed: 32380421
pii: S2589-0042(20)30266-2
doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2020.101081
pmc: PMC7205902
pii:
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

101081

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Declaration of Interests The authors declare no competing interest.

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Auteurs

Jianlin Li (J)

Energy and Transportation Science Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA. Electronic address: lij4@ornl.gov.

Yingqi Lu (Y)

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24060, USA.

Tairan Yang (T)

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24060, USA.

Dayang Ge (D)

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24060, USA.

David L Wood (DL)

Energy and Transportation Science Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA.

Zheng Li (Z)

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24060, USA. Electronic address: zhengli@vt.edu.

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