Carbon-Coatings Improve Performance of Li-Ion Battery

• Published in: Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 12; no. 11; p. 1936
• Main Authors: Chen, Ziling, Zhang, Qian, Liang, Qijie
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 06.06.2022; MDPI
• Subjects: Anodes; Carbon; carbon coating; Carbon cycle; Cathodes; Coatings; Corrosion; cycling stability; Electrode materials; Electrodes; Electrolytes; Energy storage; Graphene; Lifetime; Lithium; Lithium manganese oxides; Lithium-ion batteries; lithium-ion battery; Metals; Optimization; Performance enhancement; Phase transitions; Physical properties; Protective coatings; Rechargeable batteries; Review; Specific capacity; Surface stability; specific capacity; lithium-ion battery; cycling stability; carbon coating
• ISSN: 2079-4991; 2079-4991
• DOI: 10.3390/nano12111936

The development of lithium-ion batteries largely relies on the cathode and anode materials. In particular, the optimization of cathode materials plays an extremely important role in improving the performance of lithium-ion batteries, such as specific capacity or cycling stability. Carbon coating modifying the surface of cathode materials is regarded as an effective strategy that meets the demand of Lithium-ion battery cathodes. This work mainly reviews the modification mechanism and method of carbon coating, and summarizes the recent progress of carbon coating on some typical cathode materials (LiFePO4, LiMn2O4, LiCoO2, NCA (LiNiCoAlO2) and NCM (LiNiMnCoO2)). In addition, the limitations of the carbon coating on the cathode are also introduced. Suggestions on improving the effectiveness of carbon coating for future study are also presented.