Reducing Mg Anode Overpotential Via Ion Conductive Surface Layer Formation by Iodine Additive
COMMUNICATION Electrolytes www.advenergymat.de Reducing Mg Anode Overpotential via Ion Conductive Surface Layer Formation by Iodine Additive Xiaogang Li, Tao Gao, Fudong Han, Zhaohui Ma, Xiulin Fan, Singyuk Hou, Nico Eidson, Weishan Li,* and Chunsheng Wang* Another challenge is the development Electrolytes that are able to reversibly deposit/strip Mg are crucial for of electrolytes that can effectively utilize rechargeable Mg batteries. The most studied complex electrolytes based an Mg metal anode. Extensive effort has on Lewis acid-base chemistry are expensive, difficult to be synthesized, and been put in to develop electrolytes capable of reversibly depositing/stripping Mg. show limited anodic stability. Conventional electrolytes using simple salts Most work has focused on complex elec- such as Mg(TFSI)2 can be readily synthesized, but Mg deposition/stripping in trolytes that allow fast and reversible Mg these simple salt electrolytes is accompanied by a large overpotential due to deposition/stripping. Such electrolytes the formation of a surface layer on the Mg metal with a low Mg ion conduc- were first proposed by Aurbach’s group [8] tivity. Here the overpotential for Mg deposition/stripping in a simple salt, in 2000, and subsequently they devel- oped the all phenyl complex showing high Mg(TFSI) -1,2-dimethoxyethane (DME), electrolyte is significantly reduced by 2 anodic stability.[9] Later, a non-nucleophilic −3 adding a small concentration of iodine (≤50 × 10 M) as an additive. Mecha- electrolyte, Mg-HMDS, was developed by nism studies demonstrate that an Mg ion conductive solid MgI2 layer is Muldoon and co-workers, and Fichtner formed on the surface of the Mg metal and acts as a solid electrolyte inter- and co-workers for Mg/S batteries.[10,11] To eliminate the organic Grignard species in face.
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