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N, N-Dimethylformamide Electrolyte Additive via a Blocking Strategy Enables High Performance Lithium Ion Battery Under High Temperature Lei You, Kaijia Duan, Ganbing Zhang, Wei Song, Tao Yang, Xin Song, Shiquan Wang, and Jianwen Liu J. Phys. Chem. C, Just Accepted Manuscript • DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b01387 • Publication Date (Web): 20 Feb 2019 Downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org on February 21, 2019

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N,N-Dimethylformamide

Electrolyte

Additive

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Blocking Strategy Enables High Performance Lithium Ion Battery under High Temperature

Lei You

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, Kaijia Duan

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, Ganbing Zhang a, Wei Song a, Tao Yang

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, Xin Song a,

Shiquan Wang a, Jianwen Liu a,*

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Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Advanced Organic Chemical Materials

& Ministry of Educational Key Laboratory for the Synthesis and Application of OrganicFunctional, Molecules & College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hubei University, Wuhan, 430062, China b

College of Materials & Environmental Engineering, Hangzhou Dianzi University,

Hangzhou, 310036, China

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These authors contributed equally to this work.

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Corresponding author: Dr. & Prof. Jianwen Liu. E-mail: [email protected] Dr. Tao Yang. E-mail: [email protected]

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ABSTRACT: Currently adding suitable additive in the electrolyte is one of the most effective strategies to improve the electrochemical performance for lithium ion battery, especially under high temperature. In this work, N, N-dimethylformamide (DMF) as an electrolyte additive was introduced to improve battery performance of LiFePO4 at 60 oC. The addition of DMF can effectively increase the specific capacity, the cycling performance and rate performance of the batteries using LiFePO4 as cathode materials. The XRD results reveal that the electrode cycled in the electrolyte without additive appears Fe2O3, FePO4 and other impurity peaks under high temperature. SEM/TEM results indicate that some deposits are generated on the electrode surface without additive under high temperature due to the decomposition of electrolyte, the reaction between electrolyte and electrode materials. The FTIR/NMR/XPS results demonstrate that DMF as a lewis base can capture lewis acidic PF5 from the decomposition of LiPF6 as well as block the chain reaction of LiFePO4 with HF, which alleviate the electrolyte decomposition and electrode dissolution at high temperature. KEYWORDS: N, N-dimethylformamide; Lithium ion battery; Electrolyte additive; High temperature



INTRODUCTION

In recent years extensive attention on the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) has been attracted along with the swelling requirements of portable electronic devices, electric vehicles (EVs) and hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs). Compared with the

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traditional lead-acid/nickel-cadmium batteries, LIBs have been widely used for EVs/HEVs owing to their high energy density, high voltage, light weight, low self-discharge and long cycle life. 1-8 However, large-scale energy applications require better LIBs with excellent environmental adaptability and high energy density compared with LIBs in portable electronic devices. When used for EVs/HEVs at ambient temperature, the internal temperature of LIBs will exceed 60 °C, and the temperature of electrolyte will be much higher, which may be aggravated by high-pulse cycling for high-power batteries in the application of EVs and HEVs. 9,10 Therefore, with the development of EVs/HEVs, higher requirements are put forward for the performance of LIBs in extreme environments, especially under high temperature conditions. As is known to all, the commercial electrolytes for LIBs are prepared by dissolving LiPF6 into organic carbonate including dimethyl carbonate (DMC), diethyl carbonate (DEC) and ethylene carbonate (EC). The LiPF6-based electrolytes have poor thermal stability because of the decomposition of LiPF6 on the electrode’s surface at high voltage and elevated temperature during charge/discharge process, leading to the release of PF5 from decomposition of LiFP6. The product of PF5 can be rapidly reacted with trace protic impurities (ROH or H2O) in the electrolyte to form HF and POF3, which further accelerates the decomposition of the electrolyte.

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reaction equation can be explained as follows: LiPF6 → LiF + PF5; PF5 + ROH (H2O) →HF + RF + OPF3. Therefore, there still exist several problems in practical application for LIBs, prompting the urgency of LIBs’ development. Among them,

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different electrolyte formulas or additives are significantly related to the safety performance of the batteries especially in some extreme environment, which is particularly important for the development of EVs/HEVs. Among various cathode materials of lithium ion batteries, lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4) is considered as a potential cathode material for large scale application in EVs/HEVs.

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However, LiFePO4 has poor thermal stability at high temperature,

resulting in the unsatisfactory cycle performance of the battery. In addition, the decomposition product of electrolyte, hydrogen fluoride (HF), can induce severe dissolution for LiFePO4, which is detrimental for the sustainable utilization of the battery. 17-22 Thus, to suppress the electrolyte decomposition and decrease the adverse impact from the electrolyte decomposition to the electrode, adding suitable additive is one of the most effective strategies. Many studies have reported that different additives can effectively improve the electrolyte performance and electrochemical properties of the LIBs at elevated temperature.

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Wongittharom et al. have proposed three additives vinylene

carbonate (VC), γ-butyrolactone(γ-BL) and propylene carbonate (PC) adding in the ionic liquid (IL). It was testified that the performance of single IL electrolyte at 75 oC was superior to that in conventional organic electrolytes.

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prop-1-ene-1,3-sultone (PES) to LiPF6 in EC/DMC electrolyte solution, exhibiting high capacity retention of 82.3 mAhg-1 after 150 cycles at 60 oC for batteries.

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Moreover, 0.5 wt.% lithium 4-pyridyl trimethyl borate (LPTB) was introduced as an additive by Xu et al and displayed good cycle performance of high-voltage at 55 oC

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and better rate performance at -20 oC for batteries.

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triphenyl borate (TPB) and trimethyl borate (TMB) as additives facilitating the performance of LiFePO4 batteries. The batteries with 0.1 M TPB only exhibited 7% capacity retention after 100 cycles at 60 oC, much less than that with 0.1 M TMB (53%). Chang have also recommended a novel electrolyte of 30 wt.% ionic liquid Triethylmethylammonium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide (N1222-TFSI) mixed with 70 wt.% commercial carbonate electrolytes. This electrolyte had the properties of flame retardant, thermal stability, reducing the corrosion of Al and improving the battery performance at 25 and 60 oC.

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additive was systematically investigated with the electrolyte’s ionic conductivity and phase-transition behaviours at different temperature by Li et al. The cells had high capacity retention from -40 to 60 oC.

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In addition, 0.5 wt.% dimethyl phenyl

phosphate (DMPP) as additive produced a capacity improvement from 16% to 82% at 55 oC for LiMn2O4 after 200 cycles by Zhu et al.

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1 wt.% tris(trimethylsilyl) borate

(TMSB) as additive showed a high discharge capacity retention and good cycle performance at 30 and 55 oC by Cai et al. 37 In order to compare their advantages and disadvantages of reported additives in literatures, Table S1 in the supporting information summarizes the electrochemical performances of additives used at high or low temperature for LIBs in recent years. As can be seen from the table, these additives reported in the literatures are all generally complex in the molecular structures and difficult to prepare, and some additives are poorly soluble, expensive and inherently toxic. Moreover, the current

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research on high-temperature electrolyte additives for LIBs was mainly focused on the electrochemical tests, however the explanation of mechanism and theoretical calculation were seldom introduced. Herein in our work, we have proposed N, N-dimethylformamide (DMF) as a novel additive to improve the thermal stability for the carbonate electrolyte at elevated temperature for the first time. DMF is a transparent liquid that can be easily and cheaply prepared, and miscible with water and most organic solvents. In this work, we added a small amount of DMF (1%-3%, by weight) as additive in base electrolyte of 1.0 M LiPF6 solution in EC/DMC/DEC (1:1:1, by weight). The electrochemical tests and characterization techniques were carried out to take verification and mechanism analysis of DMF as additive in LiFePO4

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electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) were tested in the electrolyte with and without DMF at elevated temperatures. X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), Scanning electron microscopy (SEM)/ Transmission electron microscope (TEM), Fourier Transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR,

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EXPERIMENTAL SECTION

DMF (purity: 99.5%) was purchased from Tianinfuyu Fine Chemical Co., Ltd, China and dehydrated by 4 Å molecular sieves before used. PVDF and NMP were purchased from Taiyuan Lizhiyuan Chemical Co., Ltd, China. The base electrolyte with 1.0 M

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LiPF6 solution in EC/DMC/DEC (1:1:1, by weight) and LiFePO4 materials were provided by Hubei Nuobang Chemical Company Co, Ltd. All the electrolytes were prepared in a highly pure argon-filled glove box in which water and oxygen contents were both controlled less than 0.1 ppm. The base electrolytes were divided into four bottles and DMF was added into different bottles labeled as E0 (0 wt.%), E1 (1 wt.%), E2 (2 wt.%) and E3 (3 wt.%), respectively. The photographs of electrolyte samples with different concentrations of DMF additive can be observed in the inset of Figure S1a in the supporting information. The electrolytes with different concentration additives are all colorless and transparent without any precipitation after stored for 5 months. All calculations were performed using the Gaussian 09 package. The equilibrium structures were optimized with the B3LYP in conjunction with the M06-2x/6-311++G(d,p) level basis set. At the same level, frequency calculations were also performed to confirm all optimized molecules with a consistent stationary. The calculated oxidation potential was converted from the free-energy cycle for the oxidation reaction. Detailed information about materials characterization and electrochemical measurements can be found in the Supporting Information.



RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

Figure S1a and S1b in the supporting information show the charge-discharge profiles and cycle performance of Li/LiFePO4 batteries at 25 oC in the different

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electrolyte E0, E1, E2, E3, respectively. As can be seen, the capacity of the battery with E0 electrolyte has a slight loss from 150 mAh·g-1 to 148 mAh·g-1, a capacity retention of 98% after 100 charge-discharge cycles. Meanwhile the capacity retentions of batteries with electrolytes E2 and E3 are 93% and 79% respectively, while battery with electrolyte E1 hardly has a capacity attenuation with an almost 99% capacity retention. In the cyclic voltammetry (CV) curves, the initial CV curves of batteries in the electrolyte E0, E1 and E2 can be seen in Figure S1c and S1d in the supporting information. E0 and E1 have the same peaks of oxidation at 3.6 V and reduction at 3.3 V (both vs. Li+/Li), which are ascribed to the same redox reaction of Fe3+/Fe2+. Moreover, no other redox peaks are found on the CV curves, indicating that the addition of DMF does not lead to the existence of a new redox system, which are beneficial for battery performance at room temperature. Based on the above battery performance and CV results, therefore, the following research will take 1 wt.% DMF as the research objectives. The charge and discharge curves of half battery (vs Li/Li+) in the electrolyte without and with DMF additive under high temperature can be observed in Figure 1a and 1b. In the first 50 cycles, charge and discharge performance remain stable regardless of the addition of additive, indicating that in the early stages of battery cycle under high temperature, the electrode materials have not been eroded and destroyed, even high temperature can accelerate the transfer speed of lithium ion and maintain high utilization rate of lithium capacity. From

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the 50th cycle on, it is obvious that the battery charge capacity is far greater than the discharge capacity for the electrolyte without DMF additive, and this difference is further increased until 150 cycles. It must be pointed out that the electrochemical polarization of the battery during charge and discharge is aggravated in the high temperature environment, resulting in the severe loss of the battery capacity. This may also be due to increased irreversible capacity of the battery resulting from increased temperature and electrolyte decomposition. Figure 1c and 1d display the charge and discharge curves of full battery (vs graphite) in the electrolyte without and with DMF additive under high temperature. The charge and discharge trends appear much the same as the half battery (vs Li/Li+), that is, the capacity attenuation becomes severe in the electrolyte without DMF additive since the initial 50 cycles on. As represented in Figure 1e, the Li/LiFePO4 half battery with 1 wt.% DMF delivers superior discharge capacities of 163.3, 139.4, 117.5, 97.1 and 74.0 mAh.g-1 at 0.2, 0.5, 1, 2 and 5 C, respectively, which are all higher than 161.5, 132.9, 110.9, 81.5 and 41.4 mAh.g-1 for the Li/LiFePO4 electrodes without additive at corresponding current rates. It reveals that adding DMF is also beneficial for the high rate performance of the battery at high temperature. Figure 1f shows the comparison of battery cycle performance with and without additive at 60 oC. Before the 50 cycles no matter whether additive is added or not, the battery cycle capacity has basically no difference with the same capacity retention rate, close to 94%. However, from the 50 cycle on, the discharge capacity of the battery with no

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additive begins to decay rapidly, and the capacity retention remains 73% at the 100 cycle, and the capacity remains only 58% at the 150 cycle. In contrast, the battery with additive also appears discharge capacity attenuation, but the attenuation trend is relatively mild, that is, the cycle capacity retention is maintained 86% at 100 cycle and 85% at 150 cycle respectively. The cycle performance of graphite/LiFePO4 full battery at 60 oC shown in Figure 1g and 1h indicates that the full battery in the electrolyte with DMF additive exhibits more stable cycling than that with no additive whatever at 0.2 C or 1 C. Figure S2a in the supporting information displays the comparison of battery coulombic performance with and without additive at 60 oC. Similarly, there is no difference between the batteries with and without additive before 50 cycles. Even the battery without additive shows better coulombic efficiency compared to the battery with additive. From the 50 cycle on, the coulombic efficiency of the battery without additive drops sharply. After 100 cycles, the coulombic efficiency of the battery decreases to 50%, and drops to nearly 10% when 150 cycles are reached.

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In order to verify the cause of above performance, related theoretical calculation was first carried out using the Gaussian 09 package. Figure 2a presents the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO)/lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) energies of DMF, with a comparison with solvents EC, DEC and DMC. Apparently, the HOMO energy of DMF (-0.30909 au.) is less negative than EC (-0.38411 au.), DEC (-0.37276 au.), and DMC (-0.37839 au.), revealing that DMF experiences preferential oxidation before the base electrolyte. It appears that the exclusive decomposition products from DMF oxidation leads to the formation of a stable interphase, as DMF has a lowest oxidation potential than EC, DEC and DMC, as shown in Figure S3 in the supporting information. To understand the mechanism of the improved thermal stability of the electrolyte, theoretical calculations on binding ability between the PF5 gas and DMF, solvents EC, DEC, DMC were performed. Figure 2b displays the calculated relative binding energy (ΔE) of the complexes of PF5 in the solution based on the reaction PF5 + S = PF5-S, where S represents solvents EC, DEC, DMC or DMF. The relative energies of PF5-EC, PF5-DEC,

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PF5-DMC and PF5-DMF are -50.9, -60.6, -54.6 and -107.1 kJ.mol-1, respectively, suggesting the PF5-DMF are much more stable than PF5-EC, PF5-DEC and PF5-DMC.

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To ascertain the phase changes of electrode materials before and after cycles, XRD patterns can be observed in Figure 3. The characteristic diffraction peaks of LiFePO4 before and after the battery cycles are both displayed, for example at 21.2o, 26.1o, 29.8o, 35.5o, et al. 2-theta position. But it is obvious that the relative intensity of the characteristic diffraction peaks is weakened after 150 cycles, indicating that the crystal structure has been changed. Meanwhile the impurity peaks of LiF both appear in the electrode materials cycled in the electrolyte with and without additive, demonstrating that the decomposition of electrolyte cannot be avoided under high temperature, especially the LiF peak intensity of the electrode materials without additive is more notable. Moreover, the electrode material without additive obviously appears Fe2O3, FePO4 and other impurity peaks. It means that electrode materials without additive cannot be prevented from erosion and destruction under high temperature conditions, thus forming new impurity phases, which is extremely unfavourable for the battery cycle performance.

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Figure 3. XRD patterns of (a) pristine LiFePO4 and LiFePO4 cathodes after 150 cycles in the electrolytes (b) without DMF and (c-e) with DMF under the temperature of 60 oC.

From the SEM and TEM images of LiFePO4 cathodes after 150 cycles in the electrolytes without and with DMF additive shown in the Figure 4, the surface morphologies of the electrode materials with and without additive show

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significantly different. There are some obvious solid deposits on the electrode surface without DMF additive, while no deposits can be observed on the electrode surface with DMF additive. These deposits can be visually identified as many disordered particle accumulations about 200-1000 nm (in Figure 4b and d). Formation of these deposits may be derived from the decomposition of electrolyte, the reaction between electrolyte and electrode material, which can be explained as schematic diagram of deposits on the LiFePO4 electrodes after cycles shown in Figure 4e. In comparison, a thin and uniform cathode electrolyte interfaces (CEI) of about 20 nm can be obviously observed for the electrode with DMF additive in Figure 4c, which can form a protective interface for the improved cycling stability under the temperature of 60 oC. In order to clearly convince the compositions of electrodes and deposits, the HRTEM and EDS images can be observed in the Figure S4 in the supporting information. The lattice structure can be calculated from lattice fringe through Digital-Micrograph software analysis. They are shown as 1.601 Å and 2.364 Å respectively in the images, corresponding to the (521) crystal surface of LiFePO4 and the (104) crystal surface of FePO4, which proves that the impurity deposits FePO4 were generated when cycled in the electrolyte without DMF additive. It is also obvious from the EDS results that the elements of Fe, O, P display uniform distribution in the electrode cycled in the electrolyte with DMF additive.

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the impedance performance of the battery was tested. Figure 5 presents the electrochemical impedance spectra before and after 150cycles when the cathodes from the spent batteries were disassembled and used to assemble fresh batteries for impedance testing. It is obvious that the resistance of electron transport Rct in the intermediate frequency region has much difference for the batteries without additive before and after the cycles whatever the half battery or full battery, the Rct value of the half battery without additive is increased from 161 Ω to 612 Ω, and from 126 Ω to 498 Ω for full battery, reflecting the increased electron transfer impedance and decreased electrochemical kinetic performance due to the as-generated deposits. Therefore, the intercalation and de-intercalation of lithium ion in the electrode material becomes more difficult. The decrease of the kinetic performance weakens the active materials involved in the discharge process, which makes lithium ions more difficult to diffuse from the electrode surface to the internal, greatly affecting the cycle performance of the battery. 38-40 However the Rct has no significant difference for the batteries with DMF additive before and after the cycles whatever the half battery or full battery. Figure S5 in the supporting information shows the photographs of electrolyte samples without and with DMF additive after stored under the temperature of 60 oC for 1 day and 7 days respectively. Obvious precipitation was observed in the base electrolyte without DMF after storage at high temperature for 7 days, while this phenomenon was not detected in the electrolyte with DMF additive. Additionally, the photographs of electrolyte with

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and without DMF additive stored for 1 month and 6 months at room temperature can also be observed. It is obvious that there are both no deposits and precipitations in the electrolytes, which proves that the electrolyte with DMF additive can maintain long-term stability.

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electrode in electrolyte without DMF additive, the concentrations of C, F, Fe, P and N increase, only the concentration of O decreases for the cycled LiFePO4 electrode in electrolyte with DMF additive. In the C1s spectra, four main peaks appear on the electrode in the electrolyte with or without additive, corresponding to hydrocarbons (C-H, C-C at 284.8 eV), C-O-C bonds (286-287 eV), C=O bonds (286.5 eV for R-CH2OCO2-Li and 288-290 eV for Li2CO3) and C-F2 from PVDF (291 eV), respectively.

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formation of the by-products and promote the transportation of Li ion in the electrolyte. The Fe2p spectra show much difference on iron content of electrodes, illustrating that the iron dissolution of electrode without additive is significant due to the erosion and dissolution of the electrode material under high temperature. Quantitative determination of the iron element was also carried out by inductively coupled plasma-atomic emission spectroscopy (ICP-AES). The cycled LiFePO4 electrodes were rinsed with dimethylacetamide (DMAC) and dissolved in 5 ml of 3% HNO3, and the solution was diluted to 20 mL for analysis. From Figure S6 in the Supporting Information the results show that the dissolution of iron is rather severe in the solution without additive, especially after 50 cycles. In the P2p spectra, the main peak is observed at 133.2 eV for P-O bond, which can be found it all in the three electrodes resulting from LiFePO4 materials. However, an additional peak only appears on electrode without additives at 136.7 eV for LixPOyFz and LixPFz, which are the decomposition by-products from LiPF6 and carbonic ester. This results also demonstrate that the formation of by-products is more severe under high temperature in base electrolyte than that in DMF-containing electrolyte. 45 Meanwhile, an obvious peak of C-N (400.3 eV) appears only on electrode with additives in N1s spectra, indicating that addition of DMF participate in the electrochemical reaction between electrolyte and electrodes.

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Further to say, the thermal decomposition products of the electrolytes with and without DMF additive before and after storage at 60 oC for 168 hours were analyzed through FTIR and NMR test. As presented in Figure S7 in the supporting information, the characteristic FTIR absorption peaks of DMF before and after storage at high temperature display no significant difference, indicating that the DMF itself maintains the basic stability. The FTIR absorption peaks of electrolyte with and without DMF additive before storage also display no much difference, revealing that the addition of DMF do not cause much change in composition or structure for electrolyte. In addition, many strong peaks located at 1805, 1744, 1658, 1490, 1400, 1302 cm-1 are mainly derived from carbonate solvents themselves (EC, DEC, DMC), 22

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the reaction product between the solvents and electrolyte salts (Li2CO3, ROCO2Li), or the decomposition of electrolyte (LixPOyFz, LixPFy), etc (in Figure S6c and S6d). 31,36,44-48

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decomposition, and other components are the main sources for the formation of electrode SEI film due to the electrolyte decomposition. In the presence of DMF, the FTIR spectra of the electrolyte before and after storage displayed no conspicuous difference. The peak centered at 1302 cm-1, corresponding to the characteristic of LixPOyFz was detected in the electrolyte without DMF, revealing that the side reactions of the electrolyte are significantly occurred at high temperature. In the

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Figure 7. 31P NMR spectra of (a) base electrolyte and (b) electrolyte with DMF additive before storage and (c) base electrolyte and (d) electrolyte with DMF additive after storage at 60 oC (signal i is assigned to PO2F2-);

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Based on the FTIR, NMR, XRD, XPS and SEM/TEM results and related calculation, the mechanism behind the electrolyte decomposition and changes is first described as the “blocking mechanism”, as shown in Figure 8. Firstly, the decomposition of LiPF6 on the electrode’s surface at elevated temperature can easily cause the generation of harmful gas PF5 and insulated LiF due to the poor thermal stability of traditional LiPF6-based electrolytes, as shown in the route (1). Then the as-generated PF5 can be rapidly reacted with trace protic impurities such as ROH or H2O in the electrolyte and subsequently to form by-products HF and POF3. POF3 will further accelerate the generation of by-products LixPOyFz and LixPOFy, while HF can constantly react with the intermediate product FePO4 during the intercalation/de-intercalation process, resulting in the formation of by-products Fe2O3 and FeF3, as shown in the route (2). Consequently, the electrode materials will be corroded and dissolved continuously. As shown in route (3), with the addition of DMF into the base electrolyte, the lewis base can rapidly capture the lewis acid PF5, therefore

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effectively blocking the further occurrence of side reactions and the corrosion of electrode materials. It must be pointed out that the molecular of DMF with a pair lone electron can be integrated with the unelectronic structure of PF5 in the electrolyte, which can be defined as "blocking mechanism".

Figure 8. The blocking mechanism of DMF for decomposition of LiPF6, the generation of by-products, and dissolution of LiFePO4 electrode during charge and discharge.



CONCLUSIONS

A novel type of electrolyte additive DMF used at high temperature was proposed in this work. The addition of DMF can improve the storage properties of the electrolyte at high temperature, and meanwhile inhibit the decomposition of electrolyte during

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the high temperature cycle. The formation of CEI film derived from the addition of DMF is also beneficial to prevent the dissolution of lithium iron phosphate cathodes. These features allow the batteries to exhibit excellent cycle performance (125.8 mAh.g-1 after 150 cycles) and rate performance (74.0 mAh.g-1 at 5 C) at high temperature (60 oC). The "blocking mechanism" is also proposed based on theoretical calculations, where DMF as a lewis base can capture lewis acidic PF5 from the decomposition of LiPF6, therefore effectively blocking the occurrence of side reactions and the corrosion of electrode materials. The discovery of this DMF additive is of great significance for promoting the application of lithium ion batteries at high temperature in large scale applications.



ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support from National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 21706055). The authors would like to thank the Analytical and Testing Center of Hubei University for providing the facilities to fulfill the experimental measurements and Hubei Nuobang Chemical Company Co, Ltd for providing technical support. Meanwhile we also gratefully thank Professor Zaiping Guo from University of Wollongong for providing guidance and help for the experimental design and article writing.



SUPPORTING INFORMATION

Supplementary data associated with this article can be found in the online version.

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