Aluminum foil as anode material of lithium-ion batteries: Effect of electrolyte compositions on cycling parameters

Low‐Cost Metallic Anode Materials for High Performance Rechargeable Batteries

“…Kuksenko et al directly employed Al foil with thickness of 21 µm in the half cell with Li as counter/reference electrode and investigated the effect of electrolyte compositions on the cycling performance. [36] It was demonstrated that the Al foil-Li half cell exhibited the best cycling performance in a 1 m LiPF 6 solution in a mixture Al powders with different sizes ranging from micro to nanoscale were also investigated by Lei et al, and the effect of particle size on the electrochemical performance of Al-Li half cell was discussed. [61] The Al powder with 15 µm delivered both high initial charge capacity of 608.0 mA h g −1 and relatively good cycling stability for 10 cycles, while the powder with larger size of 37 µm and smaller size below 3 µm displayed poor electrochemical performance.…”

“…Al has also attracted people's attention as a typical alloy-type anode material in the LIB system, owing to its high theoretical capacity, low cost, and moderate potential plateau of lithium plating with less dendrites formation which averts the safety concern. [36] In addition, Al can achieve a higher specific capacity with lower volume expansion (993 mA h g −1 , 97% volume expansion for LiAl), [56] compared to other potential metallic materials such as Sn (994 mA h g −1 , 260% volume expansion for Li 4.4 Sn), Zn (410 mA h g…”

“…[35] For example, aluminum has high theoretical capacity (993 mA h g −1 or 1411 mA h cm −3 for LiAl) with moderate potential plateau (≈0.38 V vs Li + /Li). [35,36] Considering both of the capacity increase and voltage drop by using metal anodes in a LIB model, Obrovac et al calculated the volumetric energy increase in comparison to graphite based commercial battery (Table 1). [37] In such a model, the volumetric energy densities could be increased by different extents ranging from 10-42% when metal anodes were used.…”

Effects of Steel Cell Components on Overall Capacity of Pulsed Laser Deposited FeF2Thin Film Lithium Ion Batteries

“…[22][23][24][25][26][27] Yet despite all its advantages, aluminum anodes fail due to pulverization, even for a nanowire ≈50 nm in diameter 20,26 and recent studies have not shown stable reversibly cycling using aluminum as an active anode material. 20,22,23 Other investigations reported that aluminum foil was found to be the most suitable material as a current collector for the cathodes in LIBs due to its stability against electrochemical oxidation. 28,29 Another study on 304 stainless steel revealed the formation of a passive layer of (Fe, Cr)-oxide, on which (Cr, Fe)-fluorides reside that would improve the corrosion resistance in the presence of LiPF 6 salt 30 and accordingly it was claimed the possibility of using such steel as applicable current collectors for both positive and negative electrodes, and cell cases for LIBs.…”

“…5,19 Aluminum has been long investigated as a potential anode for lithium ion batteries due to its low potential versus Li, high theoretical capacity (∼933 mAh/g for LiAl), low cost, and abundance, but did not receive much attention due to it slow performance. [20][21][22] Aluminum has also been investigated as a possible anode for LIBs in the form of a foil, 23 film deposited on copper support, 22 powder, 24,25 nanowires with naturally oxidized Al 2 O 3 surface layer 26 and thin film of aligned aluminum nanorods. 27 Aluminum anodes charge potentials near 0.2 V and discharge potentials near 0.55 V were reported irrespective of the aluminum structure.…”