TY - JOUR AU - Wu, Xiaochao AU - Rohman, F. AU - Meledina, Maria AU - Tempel, Hermann AU - Schierholz, Roland AU - Kungl, Hans AU - Mayer, Joachim AU - Eichel, Rüdiger-A. TI - Analysis of the effects of different carbon coating strategies onstructure and electrochemical behavior of LiCoPO4 material as a high-voltage cathode electrode for lithium ion batteries JO - Electrochimica acta VL - 279 SN - 0013-4686 CY - New York, NY [u.a.] PB - Elsevier M1 - FZJ-2018-01686 SP - 108 - 117 PY - 2018 AB - The olivine polymorph LiCoPO4 was synthesized by solvothermal and a subsequent annealing process. Carbon free, ex-situ carbon coated and in-situ carbon coated materials were prepared. With the addition of citric acid in the solvothermal reaction, a carbon layer was coated via an in-situ approach. To systematically compare the different carbon coating routes, the structure and morphology of the LiCoPO4 materials were investigated by XRD, Raman, and SEM. HAADF-STEM combined with EDX was applied to analyze the homogeneity of the carbon layer and corresponding antisite defects. Electrochemical properties were analyzed by half-cells measuring cyclic-voltammograms, charge/discharge cycling behavior stability and rate-capability. It was found that the in-situ carbon coated LiCoPO4/C exhibited a superior electrochemical performance due to the relatively uniform and complete surface-layer formation. As a result, an appropriate carbon layer improves the electronic and ionic transport properties, ensures fast electron-transfer kinetics at the electrode particle surfaces and suppresses unwanted side reactions with the electrolyte LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16 UR - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000434007000013 DO - DOI:10.1016/j.electacta.2018.05.067 UR - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/844245 ER -