Environmentally sustainable lithium-ion battery cathode binders based on cellulose nanocrystals

Xingkang Huang; Haoyang You; Xiaoli Yan; Olaf J. Borkiewicz; Kamila M. Wiaderek; Janan Hui; Mark C. Hersam; Santanu Chaudhuri; Stuart J. Rowan; Junhong Chen

doi:10.1039/D4TA03305A

Environmentally sustainable lithium-ion battery cathode binders based on cellulose nanocrystals†

Xingkang Huang,

‡*^ab Haoyang You,

‡^c Xiaoli Yan,‡^d Olaf J. Borkiewicz,^e Kamila M. Wiaderek,^e Janan Hui,^f Mark C. Hersam,

^fgh Santanu Chaudhuri,*^di Stuart J. Rowan

*^abc and Junhong Chen

*^ab

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^a Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, The University of Chicago, 5640 S. Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL, USA
E-mail: junhongchen@uchicago.edu, stuartrowan@uchicago.edu, xkhuang@uchicago.edu

^b Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Physical Sciences and Engineering Directorate, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois 60439, USA

^c Department of Chemistry, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

^d Department of Civil, Materials, and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois, USA
E-mail: santc@uic.edu

^e X-ray Science Division, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL 60439, USA

^f Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA

^g Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA

^h Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA

ⁱ Applied Materials Division, Advanced Energy Technologies Directorate, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA

Abstract

Aqueous binders as environmentally sustainable alternatives to conventional polyvinylidene difluoride (PVDF) binders have not yet been successful for cathodes in lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). Here, carboxylic acid functionalized cellulose nanocrystals (CNC-COOHs) have been obtained from Miscanthus × giganteus (M×G) biomass and evaluated as aqueous binders for LIB cathodes.

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