Nano-Micro Letters, Volume. 16, Issue 1, 072(2024)

Solvation Engineering via Fluorosurfactant Additive Toward Boosted Lithium-Ion Thermoelectrochemical Cells

Yinghong Xu... Zhiwei Li, Langyuan Wu, Hui Dou and Xiaogang Zhang* |Show fewer author(s)
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  • Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Electrochemical Energy Storage Technologies, College of Material Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 211106, People’s Republic of China
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    Lithium-ion thermoelectrochemical cell (LTEC), featuring simultaneous energy conversion and storage, has emerged as promising candidate for low-grade heat harvesting. However, relatively poor thermosensitivity and heat-to-current behavior limit the application of LTECs using LiPF6 electrolyte. Introducing additives into bulk electrolyte is a reasonable strategy to solve such problem by modifying the solvation structure of electrolyte ions. In this work, we develop a dual-salt electrolyte with fluorosurfactant (FS) additive to achieve high thermopower and durability of LTECs during the conversion of low-grade heat into electricity. The addition of FS induces a unique Li+ solvation with the aggregated double anions through a crowded electrolyte environment, resulting in an enhanced mobility kinetics of Li+ as well as boosted thermoelectrochemical performances. By coupling optimized electrolyte with graphite electrode, a high thermopower of 13.8 mV K-1 and a normalized output power density of 3.99 mW m–2 K–2 as well as an outstanding output energy density of 607.96 J m-2 can be obtained. These results demonstrate that the optimization of electrolyte by regulating solvation structure will inject new vitality into the construction of thermoelectrochemical devices with attractive properties.

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    Yinghong Xu, Zhiwei Li, Langyuan Wu, Hui Dou, Xiaogang Zhang. Solvation Engineering via Fluorosurfactant Additive Toward Boosted Lithium-Ion Thermoelectrochemical Cells[J]. Nano-Micro Letters, 2024, 16(1): 072

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    Paper Information

    Category: Research Articles

    Received: Jul. 27, 2023

    Accepted: Nov. 15, 2023

    Published Online: Jan. 23, 2025

    The Author Email: Zhang Xiaogang (azhangxg@nuaa.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1007/s40820-023-01292-2

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