Nature Communications (Oct 2020)

Thermal runaway of Lithium-ion batteries employing LiN(SO2F)2-based concentrated electrolytes

  • Junxian Hou,
  • Languang Lu,
  • Li Wang,
  • Atsushi Ohma,
  • Dongsheng Ren,
  • Xuning Feng,
  • Yan Li,
  • Yalun Li,
  • Issei Ootani,
  • Xuebing Han,
  • Weining Ren,
  • Xiangming He,
  • Yoshiaki Nitta,
  • Minggao Ouyang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18868-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Concentrated electrolytes display superior thermal stability due to their non-flammability nature. Here, the authors show that LiN(SO2F)2-based concentrated electrolytes are incapable of solving the safety issues due to heat release during reaction between the lithiated graphite and electrolyte.