Abstract
Conversion-type electrode materials show extremely interesting performance in terms of capacity, which is however usually associated with bad Coulombic efficiency. The latter is mainly the consequence of the relentless evolution of solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) formed and/or dissolved during conversion/back-conversion reactions on the continuously reshaping active material surface. The thorough comprehension of the dynamic processes occurring during cycling in a working electrochemical cell, such as solvation/desolvation of ionic species and formation/dissolution of the SEI at the electrode/electrolyte interface, is thus of utmost relevance in the study of electrochemical mechanism and performance of conversion-type electrode materials. Operando Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, one of the methods of choice for the study of such phenomena, was applied to study the dynamic interfacial properties of NiSb2, a representative intermetallic conversion-type electrode material for Li batteries,...
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