Redox Shuttle Additives for Chemical Overcharge Protection in Lithium Ion Batteries

Doo-Yeon Lee; Hyo-Sug Lee; Ho-Sung Kim; Hee-Young Sun; Do-Young Seung

Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering, Vol.19, No.4, 645-652, July, 2002

DOI10.1007/BF02699311 Export Citation

Redox Shuttle Additives for Chemical Overcharge Protection in Lithium Ion Batteries

Doo-Yeon Lee^†, Hyo-Sug Lee¹, Ho-Sung Kim, Hee-Young Sun, and Do-Young Seung

Materials & Devices Lab., Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, P.O.Box 111, Suwon 440-600, Korea
¹CSE Center, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, P.O.Box 111, Suwon 440-600, Korea

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We disclosed that a few kinds of aromatic compounds having thianthrene derivatives with acetyl or other functional groups were stable up to about 4.2-4.3 V against lithium. These materials, called redox shuttle, have lately been employed as a chemical overcharge protection agent that consumes the excess current during battery overcharge. They oxidized above 4 V and worked as redox shuttle when introduced into the electrolyte of a Carbon/LiCoO2 prismatic battery within less than one hour rate (1C). We also studied thermal properties of batteries containing the above-mentioned materials with ARC (Accelerating Rate Calorimeter). We ascertained that the current supplied over the full charge was not stored, but instantly and quite completely consumed in an oxidation-reduction reaction.

Keywords:Redox Shuttle;Thianthrene Derivatives;Overcharge Protection;Oxidation-reduction;ARC (Accelerating Rate Calorimeter)

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