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Facile Material Design Concept for Co-Free Lithium Excess Nickel-Manganese Oxide as High-Capacity Positive Electrode Material
Author(s) -
Mitsuharu Tabuchi,
Mitsunori Kitta,
Koji Yazawa,
Kei Kubota
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of the electrochemical society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.258
H-Index - 271
eISSN - 1945-7111
pISSN - 0013-4651
DOI - 10.1149/1945-7111/ac3526
Subject(s) - calcination , spinel , lithium (medication) , coprecipitation , materials science , electrochemistry , manganese , analytical chemistry (journal) , oxide , rietveld refinement , transition metal , inorganic chemistry , chemical engineering , electrode , chemistry , metallurgy , catalysis , crystal structure , crystallography , medicine , engineering , endocrinology , biochemistry , chromatography
High-capacity Li 1+x (Ni 0.3 Mn 0.7 ) 1-x O 2 , (0 < x < 1/3) samples were synthesized by the coprecipitation–calcination method. Both electrochemical cycle and high-rate performances were drastically improved by selecting an N 2 atmosphere as final calcination. Scanning transmission electron microscopy—energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy analysis showed that the sample calcined in an N 2 atmosphere had a more homogeneous transition metal distribution into primary particles than that calcined in air. The solid-state 7 Li nuclear magnetic resonance data showed that electrochemically inactive domains were only diminished for the sample calcined in an N 2 atmosphere after electrochemical activation. X-ray Rietveld analysis revealed that the suitable transition metal distribution and content of the samples were different from those of typical layered rock-salt materials. Only that calcined in an N 2 atmosphere had no spinel formation during charging and no oxide ion insertion reaction during discharging. No positive Co substitution effect was observed under the optimized preparation conditions. At the 100th cycle, the discharge capacity was 216 mAh g −1 , which corresponds to 87% of the initial capacity (251 mAh g −1 ) at optimizing synthetic condition.

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