Nature Communications (May 2017)

Visualization of lithium-ion transport and phase evolution within and between manganese oxide nanorods

  • Feng Xu,
  • Lijun Wu,
  • Qingping Meng,
  • Merzuk Kaltak,
  • Jianping Huang,
  • Jessica L. Durham,
  • Marivi Fernandez-Serra,
  • Litao Sun,
  • Amy C. Marschilok,
  • Esther S. Takeuchi,
  • Kenneth J. Takeuchi,
  • Mark S. Hybertsen,
  • Yimei Zhu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15400
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Hollandite structured materials are potentially useful for battery technologies. Here the authors report the unusual lateral transport of lithium ions between lithiated silver manages oxide nanorods where the reaction fronts and kinetics are maintained within the neighbouring nanorods.