The Effect of Fluoroethylene Carbonate as an Additive on the Solid Electrolyte Interphase on Silicon Lithium-Ion Electrodes

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 27, Issue 16, 2015, Pages 5531-5542

  Schroder, Kjell ^a   Alvarado, Judith ^b   Yersak, Thomas A ^b,d   Li, Juchuan ^c   Dudney, Nancy ^c   Webb, Lauren J ^a   Meng, Ying Shirley ^b   Stevenson, Keith J ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS FILMS; CARBONATION; CHEMICAL ATTACK; DEPTH PROFILING; ELECTRODES; ELECTROLYTES; FLUORINE COMPOUNDS; IONS; LITHIUM; LITHIUM ALLOYS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SECONDARY ION MASS SPECTROMETRY; SEEBECK EFFECT; SILICON OXIDES; SOLID ELECTROLYTES; SURFACE REACTIONS; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

AMORPHOUS SILICON THIN FILMS; CARBONATE ELECTROLYTES; ELECTROLYTE ADDITIVES; FLUOROETHYLENE CARBONATES; MOISTURE CONTAMINATION; SILICON OXIDE SURFACES; SOLID ELECTROLYTE INTERPHASE; TIME OF FLIGHT SECONDARY ION MASS SPECTROMETRY;

AMORPHOUS SILICON;

EID: 84940062402     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: 15205002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b01627     Document Type: Article

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