I am working on cathode material. I have made different Li-ion coin cell against Li metal using commercial available cathode materials such as LCO,LMO, LFP and NMC and also with the lab synthesized cathode material.
Typical cell combination I am using
85 (AM):10(Super P):5 (pVdF)
LiCoO2/1M LiPF6 in ECC:EMC:DMC:VC/ Li Metal
Pre dried powder at 80 C
Coating thickness= 40 um
electrode diameter= 15 mm
Average Loading of electrode material = 4- 5 mg
In all case I get good charge-discharge response at Lower rates such as @ 0.2 C , 0.1C, C/2, C. But when I am testing at higher rate such as 2C, 3C or 5C it failed even for the commercial purchased electrode material. I am confused how to test the material at higher C rate.
Till now what I have did to solve this problem-
1. I have checked by reducing the coating thickness.
2. Made some variation in calendaring process.
But still problem persist!!
I am hoping that somebody will give me some suggestion regarding that.
Thank You in advance.