A Water-in-Salt Electrolyte for Room-Temperature Fluoride-Ion Batteries Based on a Hydrophobic-Hydrophilic Salt.
basic_science · Level V
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Abstract
Realizing room-temperature, efficient, and reversible fluoride-ion redox is critical to commercializing the fluoride-ion battery, a promising post-lithium-ion battery technology. However, this is challenging due to the absence of usable electrolytes, which usually suffer from insufficient ionic conductivity and poor (electro)chemical stability. Herein we report a water-in-salt (WIS) electrolyte based on the tetramethylammonium fluoride salt, an organic salt consisting of hydrophobic cations and hydrophilic anions. The new WIS electrolyte exhibits an electrochemical stability window of 2.47 V (2.08-4.55 V vs Li<sup>+</sup>/Li) with a room-temperature ionic conductivity of 30.6 mS/cm and a fluoride-ion transference number of 0.479, enabling reversible (de)fluoridation redox of lead and copper fluoride electrodes. The relationship between the salt property, the solvation structure, and the ionic transport behavior is jointly revealed by computational simulations and spectroscopic analysis.