Synthesis of LiFePO4/Pani/C composite as a cathode material for lithium ion battery

Abstract

In recent years, LiFePO4 studied intensively as a cathode material for Li-ion batteries because of high theoretical capacity, stability, and environmental friendly. However, its low intrinsic electronic conductivity. One way to improve its conductivity is addition of conductive material. Polyaniline (PANI) is one of the conductive polymer materials that widely studied because its unique physical and chemical properties which can be an insulator and conductor by doping-dedoping processes and has large potential application. The purpose of this research is to improve the conductivity of LiFePO4 with conductive polymer PANI. The method is performed by the addition of LiFePO4 during the polymerization process to form LiFePO4 polyaniline then added to the C-PANI with the addition of mass percent variation of 5%, 10%, 15%, 20% form-LiFePO4 composite PANI-C. In LiFePO4 added during polymerization PANI provide a smooth surface profile after composited with the carbon to LiFePO4-PANI-C compared to LiFePO4-C. LiFePO4-PANI-C composite provided higher conductivity is 18.45×10-4 S/cm compared to LiFePO4-C is 10.48×10-4 S/cm at 20% addition of carbon. This is due to PANI in LiFePO4 is added to the polyaniline polymerization process can act as a conductive adhesive to glue between carbon and LiFePO4.