• Journal of Electrochemical Science and Technology
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.14-23
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• 2012

Increasing demand of energy, the depletion of fossil fuel reserves, energy security and the climate change have forced us to look upon alternate energy resources. For today's electric vehicles that run on lithium-ion batteries, one of the biggest downsides is the limited range between recharging. Over the past several years, researchers have been working on lithium-air battery. These batteries could significantly increase the range of electric vehicles due to their high energy density, which could theoretically be equal to the energy density of gasoline. Li-air batteries are potentially viable ultra-high energy density chemical power sources, which could potentially offer specific energies up to 3000 $Whkg^{-1}$ being rechargeable. This paper provides a review on Lithium air battery as alternate energy resource for the future.

• 전기화학회지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.164-171
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• 2019

Nano-sized $SnO_2$ powders were synthesized via a solvent thermal reaction using $SnClO_4$, NaOH, and ethylene glycol at $150^{\circ}C$. TGA, SEM, FT-IR, XRD, and Potentiostat/Galvanostat were employed to investigate the chemical and electrochemical characteristics of the synthesized $SnO_2$. The structure of $SnO_2$ was amorphous, and when heat treated at $500^{\circ}C$, it was transformed into a crystalline structure. The morphology obtained by SEM micrographs of the as-synthesized $SnO_2$ showed powder features that had diameters ranging 100 to 200 nm. The electrochemical performance of the crystalline $SnO_2$ as a Li-air battery cathode was better than that of the amorphous $SnO_2$. The specific capacity of the crystalline $SnO_2$ was at least 350 mAh/g at 10 mA/g discharge rate. However, there was some capacity loss of all the cells during the consecutive cycles. Keywords : Lithium-Air Battery.

• 산업기술연구
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• 제42권1호
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• pp.7-12
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• 2022

High nickel layered oxide cathodes are gaining increasing attention for lithium-ion batteries due to their higher energy density and lower cost compared to LiCoO₂. However, they suffer from the formation of residual lithium on the surface in the form of LiOH and Li₂CO₃ on exposure to ambient air. The residual lithium causes notorious issues, such as slurry gelation during electrode preparation and gas evolution during cell cycling. In this review, we investigate the residual lithium issues through its impact on cathode slurry instability based on deformed polyvinylidene fluoride (PVdF) as well as its formation and reduction mechanism in terms of inherently off-stoichiometric synthesis of high nickel cathodes. Additionally, new analysis method with anhydrous methanol was introduced to exclude Li⁺/H⁺ exchange effect during sample preparation with distilled water. We hope that this review would contribute to encouraging the academic efforts to consider practical aspects and mitigation in global high-energy-density lithium-ion battery manufacturers.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제17권9호
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• pp.936-941
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• 2004

In recent years, the rapid growth of portable electronic devices requires the high-energy density characteristics of batteries. Zinc air batteries have specific capacity as high as 820mAh/g. However, Zinc air batteries used for hearing aid applications only so far, because the atmosphere could affect it, and it has weakness in the rate capability. However, recent developments of electrode manufacturing technologies made us to overcome that weakness. And the efforts of applying zinc air batteries to portable electronic devices, especially in cellular phone application have been increased. In this paper, the effects of conducting material and polymer binder in cathode on the electrochemical characteristics were investigated. Our research team succeeded in producing 2.4Ah class zinc air battery for cellular phone application. Its volumetric energy density was 920 wh/l, and gravimetric energy density was 308 wh/kg. The volumetric energy density of our zinc air battery is two times higher than one of lithium secondary battery, and three times higher than that of alkaline manganese battery.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제31권11호
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• pp.3221-3224
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• 2010

This study investigates the requirements of lithium-air cathodes, which directly influence discharge capacity. The cathodes of Li-air cell are made by using five different carbon materials, such as Ketjen black EC600JD, Super P, Ketjen black EC300JD, Denka black, and Ensaco 250G. The Ketjen black EC600JD provides discharge capacity of 2600 mAh/g per carbon weight, while that of Ensaco 250G shows only 579 mAh/g. To figure out the differences of discharge capacity from carbon materials, their surface area and pore volume are analyzed. These are found out to be the critical factors in determining discharge capacity. Furthermore, carbon loading on Ni foam and amounts of electrolyte are significant factors that affect discharge capacity. In order to investigate catalyst effect, electrolytic manganese dioxide (EMD) is incorporated and delivered 4307 mAh/g per carbon weight. This infers that EMD facilitates to break $O_2$ interactions and leads to enhance discharge capacity.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제40권5호
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• pp.289-296
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• 2016

리튬이온전지 양극활물질 제조공정의 용제로 사용되는 NMP(N-Methyl-2-Pyrrolidinone)는 전량수입에 의존하고 있으며 BASF와 ISP의 독과점에 따라 높은 가격을 유지하고 있다. 이로 인해 대부분의 리튬이온전지 제조업체들은 건조과정에서 배기되는 공기 중에서 NMP를 회수한 후 재사용하는 방식을 이용하고 있다. 국내에서는 주로 NMP의 친수성을 이용해 흡수탑에서 회수하는 흡수법을 사용한다. 이 방식으로 회수된 NMP의 순도는 80% 수준이며, 처리된 가스의 수분 함유량이 높아 100% 배기할 수밖에 없는 문제점이 있다. 본 연구에서는 냉각응축법과 농축법을 복합 구성하여 NMP 회수율이 99.6%, 회수된 NMP 순도가 96.1%인 하이브리드형 NMP 회수시스템을 개발하였다.

• 전기화학회지
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.198-205
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• 2012

리튬-공기전지 공기극으로서 탄소 상에 직접 수열합성법으로 망간산화물을 생성한 탄소지지 망간산화물 촉매를 합성하였다. 각 수열합성 조건에 따라서 만들어진 복합체에 대한 XRD, FE-SEM 분석을 통하여, 복합체의 결정구조, 형태, 크기 등을 확인하였는데 특히, 수열합성 온도 및 시간이 각각 $170^{\circ}C$, 12시간인 조건에서 만들어진 산화망간은 길이가 40-50 nm인 막대 모양을 갖는 것으로 나타났다. 합성된 복합체를 사용하여 만든 공기극과 리튬금속을 음극으로 하는 코인셀 형태의 리튬-공기전지를 만들어 전기화학적 특성을 조사한 결과 초기 방전 용량이 3,852 mAh/g으로 높았고 충 방전 횟수가 4회 정도 발현되었다.

• 한국분말재료학회지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.136-142
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• 2016

As precursors of cathode materials for lithium ion batteries, $Ni_{1/3}Co_{1/3}Mn_{1/3}(OH)_2$ powders are prepared in a continuously stirred tank reactor via a co-precipitation reaction between aqueous metal sulfates and NaOH in the presence of $NH_4OH$ in air or nitrogen ambient. Calcination of the precursors with $Li_2CO_3$ for 8 h at $1,000^{\circ}C$ in air produces dense spherical cathode materials. The precursors and final powders are characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy, particle size analysis, tap density measurement, and thermal gravimetric analysis. The precursor powders obtained in air or nitrogen ambient show XRD patterns identified as $Ni_{1/3}Co_{1/3}Mn_{1/3}(OH)_2$. Regardless of the atmosphere, the final powders exhibit the XRD patterns of $LiNi_{1/3}Co_{1/3}Mn_{1/3}O_2$ (NCM). The precursor powders obtained in air have larger particle size and lower tap density than those obtained in nitrogen ambient. NCM powders show similar tendencies in terms of particle size and tap density. Electrochemical characterization is performed after fabricating a coin cell using NCM as the cathode and Li metal as the anode. The NCM powders from the precursors obtained in air and those from the precursors obtained in nitrogen have similar initial charge/discharge capacities and cycle life. In conclusion, the powders co-precipitated in air can be utilized as precursor materials, replacing those synthesized in the presence of nitrogen injection, which is the usual industrial practice.

• 전기화학회지
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.5-12
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• 1999

PVA-전구체법을 사용하여, 리튬전지의 양극물질인 $Li_xNi_{1-y}Co_yO_2$의 다결정성 분말을 합성하였다. 합성된 분말을 양극물질로 사용하여 리튬이온전지를 제조하여 전지의 전기화학적 성질을 측정하였다. PVA와 금속이온간의 상대적 양, PVA의 농도 및 중합도, 열처리조건, 금속의 조성비 등 여러 다른 합성조건을 변화시키면서, 그러한 합성상의 조건 변화가 리튬이온전지의 전지특성과 어떠한 상호관계를 갖는지 조사하였다. 전지의 초기성능에 관한 한, PVA-전구체법으로 합성한 $Li_xNi_{1-y}Co_yO_2$의 경우, 최적의 조성은 x=1.0, y=0.26인 것으로 관찰되었다. PVA-전구체법으로 합성할 경우, 전구체에 남는 잔여탄소로 인해 형성되는 $Li_2CO_3$가 전지의 성능을 저하시키는 것으로 관찰되었다. 이를 제거하기 위해 건조 공기의 흐름 속에서 열처리를 하거나, 합성 후 2차 열처리 과정에서 $500^{\circ}C$의 온도에서 건조공기의 흐름을 유지하며 annealing 처리를 하는 것이 전지의 특성을 크게 개선하는 것으로 관찰되었다.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제39권8호
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• pp.838-842
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• 2015

The Li-air battery is a promising candidate for the most energy-dense electrochemical power source because it has 5 to 10 times greater energy storage capacity than that of Li-ion batteries. However, the Li-air cell performance falls short of the theoretical estimate, primarily because the discharge terminates well before the pore volume of the air electrode is completely filled with lithium oxides. Therefore, the structure of carbon used in the air electrode is a critical factor that affects the performance of Li-air batteries. In a previous study, we reported a new class of carbon nanomaterial, named carbon nanoballs (CNBs), consisting of highly mesoporous spheres. Structural characterization revealed that the synthesized CNBs have excellent a meso-macro hierarchical pore structure, with an average diameter greater than 10 nm and a total pore volume more than $1.00cm^3g^{-1}$. In this study, CNBs are applied in an actual Li-air battery to evaluate the electrochemical performance. The formation mechanism and electrochemical performance of the CNBs are discussed in detail.