Graphene & lithium-ion battery

Article in Journal of Materials Chemistry titled as

Flexible and planar graphene conductive additives for lithium-ion batteries

and describes yet another graphene application in Li ion batteries. Authors claimed that Graphene is introduced into a lithium-ion battery (LIB) as a type of novel but powerful planar conductive additive and the flexible graphene-based conducting network is characterized by a novel “plane-to-point” conducting mode with exceptional electron transport properties and unique geometrical nature (a soft and ultrathin planar structure). With a much lower fraction of graphene additives than those of commercial carbon based additives, the graphene-introduced LiFePO4 cathode shows better charge/discharge performance than commercial cases.

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Graphene also shows a better performance compared to carbon nanotubes, another type of novel conductive additive with similar fractions. These results present us an indication that graphene will possibly find early application as a flexible and planar conductive additive in high performance LIBs, as our further efforts have shown that a graphene-introduced battery is of better performance as compared to real commercial batteries with conventional additives.

J. Mater. Chem., 2010,


DOI: 10.1039/C0JM01633K

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