Boosting the Electrochemical Performance of All‐Solid‐State Batteries with Sulfide Li<sub>6</sub>PS<sub>5</sub>Cl Solid Electrolyte Using Li<sub>2</sub>WO<sub>4</sub>‐Coated LiCoO<sub>2</sub> Cathode
Zhen Sun, Yanqing Lai, Na Lv, Yaqi Hu, Bingqin Li, Shenghao Jing, Liangxing Jiang, Ming Jia, Jie Li, Shiyou Chen, Fangyang Liu
Abstract
Abstract Solid‐state batteries exhibit promising prospects due to their potential in terms of safety and energy density. Sulfide solid electrolytes have received much attention due to their high ionic conductivity (about 10 −2 S cm −1 ). However, high side reactions between solid sulfide electrolytes and oxide cathodes, such as LiCoO 2 , have hampered the development of all‐solid‐state sulfide batteries. Here, first‐principles calculations and experiments are combined to demonstrate a novel protective layer to cope with the Li 6 PS 5 Cl electrolyte and LiCoO 2 cathode interface problem. By uniformly coating LiCoO 2 with a layer of Li 2 WO 4 , the interfacial resistance (the 100th cycle) between the sulfide electrolyte and LiCoO 2 is reduced to about 68 Ω cm 2 , which is nearly 15 times lower than the premodified 1061 Ω cm 2 . The 2 wt% Li 2 WO 4 ‐coated LiCoO 2 (2%LWO‐LCO)/Li 6 PS 5 Cl/Li‐In all‐solid‐state battery exhibits satisfactory capacity and excellent cycling stability at room temperature (93% capacity retention after 100 cycles). Furthermore, the ab initio molecular dynamics based on the Perdew, Burke, and Ernzerhof density functional theory calculations show that Li 2 WO 4 can effectively prevent the diffusion of Co and O from LiCoO 2 into the Li 6 PS 5 Cl solid electrolyte. It is shown that molecular dynamics help predict the interfacial reactions in all‐solid‐state sulfide batteries.