high energy density LIBs is increasing. [2] Lithium-rich layered oxide (LRLO) as a high-energy cathode material has attracted many interests due to its large specific capacity (over 300 mAh g −1 ). [3,4] Accompanied by Li extraction/insertion during charge and discharge, LRLO experiences not only the transition metal (TM) redox but also the oxygen redox which contributes a large portion to its high capacity. [5,6] Despite its high capacity, the practical deployment of LRLO is hindered by voltage fade and capacity decay during electrochemical cycling. [7,8] These two issues are correlated to the activation of oxygen redox at high voltage (>4.5 V versus Li + /Li 0 ), which leads to surface and structure degradation during cycling, such as the formation of oxygen vacancies and irreversible oxygen loss, [8,9] the migration and the dissolution of TM, [10,11] the formation of spinel-like phase, [4] and the accumulation of microstrain. [12] Intensive materials modification efforts have been devoted to addressing the capacity and voltage decay issues in LRLO. Surface coating with oxides or fluorides such as Al 2 O 3 and AlF 3 was applied to reduce the oxygen release and protect the surface from acidic species in the electrolyte. [13][14][15] Both cation and anion doping such as Mg, Mo, F were also designed to mitigate the capacity and voltage decay through the altering of electronic structure and the suppression of structural degradation. [16][17][18] Heat treatment and re-lithiation on cycled LRLO materials were also studied to recover the capacity and voltage decay after electrochemical cycling through the recovery of the honeycomb ordering in the TM layer. [19,20] Besides the modification on active materials, many cell components have also been optimized for high-voltage operation such as the binder and conductive agents. [21] However, the compatibility of the electrolyte with the charged state of LRLO is often neglected in the literature. The activation step ubiquitously seen in anionic redox materials occurs at 4.5 V versus Li + / Li 0 . For the commonly used carbonate-based liquid electrolytes, when the voltage is pushed above this limit (4.5 V), the electrolytes decompose through the following processes: carbonatebased organic solvents such as ethylene carbonate (EC) oxidize and decompose at high voltage, accompanied by dehydrogenation reaction as the protons attached to the carbon in the carbonate solvents are dissociated. [22] The protons may further
Lithium-rich layered oxides (LRLO) have attracted great interest for high-energyLi-ion batteries due to their high theoretical capacity. However, capacity decay and voltage fade during the cycling impede the practical application of LRLO. Herein, the use of lithium bis-(oxalate)borate (LiBOB) as an electrolyte additive is reported to improve the cycling stability in high voltage LRLO/graphite full cells. The cell with LiBOB-containing electrolyte delivers 248 mAh g −1 initial capacity and shows no capacity decay after 70 cycles as well as 95.5% retention after 150 c...