Ionic Conductivity and Air Stability of Al-Doped Li7La3Zr2O12 Sintered in Alumina and Pt Crucibles

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• 作者：Wenhao Xia ; Biyi Xu ; Huanan Duan ; Yiping Guo ; Hongmei Kang ; Hua Li ; Hezhou Liu
• 刊名：ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：March 2, 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：8
• 期：8
• 页码：5335-5342
• 全文大小：516K
• ISSN：1944-8252

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Li₇La₃Zr₂O₁₂ (LLZO) is a promising electrolyte material for all-solid-state battery due to its high ionic conductivity and good stability with metallic lithium. In this article, we studied the effect of crucibles on the ionic conductivity and air stability by synthesizing 0.25Al doped LLZO pellets in Pt crucibles and alumina crucibles, respectively. The results show that the composition and microstructure of the pellets play important roles influencing the ionic conductivity, relative density, and air stability. Specifically, the 0.25Al-LLZO pellets sintered in Pt crucibles exhibit a high relative density (∼96%) and high ionic conductivity (4.48 × 10^–4 S cm^–1). The ionic conductivity maintains 3.6 × 10^–4 S cm^–1 after 3-month air exposure. In contrast, the ionic conductivity of the pellets from alumina crucibles is about 1.81 × 10^–4 S cm^–1 and drops to 2.39 × 10^–5 S cm^–1 3 months later. The large grains and the reduced grain boundaries in the pellets sintered in Pt crucibles are favorable to obtain high ionic conductivity and good air stability. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and Raman spectroscopy results suggest that the formation of Li₂CO₃ on the pellet surface is probably another main reason, which is also closely related to the relative density and the amount of grain boundary within the pellets. This work stresses the importance of synthesis parameters, crucibles included, to obtain the LLZO electrolyte with high ionic conductivity and good air stability.