Nature Communications (Sep 2022)

Transition metal migration and O2 formation underpin voltage hysteresis in oxygen-redox disordered rocksalt cathodes

  • Kit McColl,
  • Robert A. House,
  • Gregory J. Rees,
  • Alexander G. Squires,
  • Samuel W. Coles,
  • Peter G. Bruce,
  • Benjamin J. Morgan,
  • M. Saiful Islam

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32983-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The oxygen-redox mechanism in lithium-rich disordered rocksalt cathode materials is still not well understood. Here, the authors show that in Li2MnO2F, molecular oxygen forms in the bulk during charge and is re-incorporated into the structure as oxygen anions on discharge, but this process is associated with irreversible Mn migration, causing voltage hysteresis.