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Merrill, Laura Christine

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DOE OSTI2024

Rapid Predictions of Part Lifetimes in Corrosive Environments, Corrosion

Corrosion challenges persist throughout SNL’s mission areas. The primary difficulty lies in the fact that corrosion typically manifests as isolated, rare events, making preemptive identification exceedingly difficult. Our current strategy for addressing corrosion issues, such as anomalies and SFIs, is similarly isolated and reactive. This method is costly, time-consuming, heavily dependent on a limited number of experts, and offers minimal understanding of the overall damage distribution within the stockpile. This technical challenge is not unique to corrosion but is also prevalent in other material aging phenomena, such as tin-whisker growth in lead-free solder and fatigue failure of springs.

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DOE OSTI2024

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Noell, Philip James↗
DOE OSTI2024

Custom-form iron trifluoride Li-batteries using material extrusion and electrolyte exchanged ionogels

Custom-form factor batteries fabricated in non-conventional shapes can maximize the overall energy density of the systems they power, particularly when used in conjunction with energy dense materials (e.g., Li metal anodes and conversion cathodes). Additive manufacturing (AM), and specifically material extrusion (ME), have been shown as effective methods for producing custom-form cell components, particularly electrodes. However, the AM of several promising energy dense materials (conversion electrodes such as iron trifluoride) have yet to be demonstrated or optimized. Furthermore, the integration of multiple AM produced cell components, such as electrodes and separators, along with a custom package remains largely unexplored. In this work, iron trifluoride (FeF 3 ) and ionogel (IG) separators are conformally printed using ME onto non-planar surfaces to enable the fabrication of custom-form Li-FeF 3 batteries. Further, to demonstrate printing on non-planar surfaces, cathodes and separators were deposited onto cylindrical rods using a 5-axis ME printer. ME printed FeF 3 was shown to have performance commensurate with FeF 3 cast using conventional means, both in coin cell and cylindrical rod formats, with capacities exceeding 700 mAh/g on the first cycle and ranging between 600 and 400 mAh/g over the next 50 cycles. Additionally, a ME process for printing polyvinylidene fluoride-co-hexafluoropropylene (PVDF-HFP) based IGs directly onto FeF 3 is developed and enabled using an electrolyte exchange process. In coin cells, this process is shown to produce cells with similar capacity to cells built with Celgard separators out to 50 cycles, with the exception that cycling instabilities are observed during cycles 8–20. When using printed and exchanged IGs in a custom cylindrical cell package, 6 stable high-capacity cycles are achieved. Overall, this work demonstrates approaches for producing high-energy-density Li-FeF 3 cells in coin and cylindrical rod formats, which are translatable to customized, arbitrary geometries compatible with ME printing and electrolyte exchange.

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