Highly reversible oxygen redox in layered compounds enabled by surface polyanions

Qing Chen; Yi Pei; Houwen Chen; Yan Song; Liang Zhen; Cheng-Yan Xu; Penghao Xiao; Graeme Henkelman

doi:10.1038/s41467-020-17126-3

Nature Communications (Jul 2020)

Highly reversible oxygen redox in layered compounds enabled by surface polyanions

Qing Chen,
Yi Pei,
Houwen Chen,
Yan Song,
Liang Zhen,
Cheng-Yan Xu,
Penghao Xiao,
Graeme Henkelman

Affiliations

Qing Chen: School of Materials Science and Engineering, and MOE Key Laboratory of Micro-Systems and Micro-Structures Manufacturing, Harbin Institute of Technology
Yi Pei: School of Materials Science and Engineering, and MOE Key Laboratory of Micro-Systems and Micro-Structures Manufacturing, Harbin Institute of Technology
Houwen Chen: College of Materials Science and Engineering, Chongqing University
Yan Song: School of Materials Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology (Weihai)
Liang Zhen: School of Materials Science and Engineering, and MOE Key Laboratory of Micro-Systems and Micro-Structures Manufacturing, Harbin Institute of Technology
Cheng-Yan Xu: School of Materials Science and Engineering, and MOE Key Laboratory of Micro-Systems and Micro-Structures Manufacturing, Harbin Institute of Technology
Penghao Xiao: Department of Chemistry and the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin
Graeme Henkelman: Department of Chemistry and the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17126-3
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Oxygen-anion redox in lithium-rich layered oxides can boost the capacity of lithium-ion battery cathodes. Here, the authors investigate the mechanism of surface degradation caused by oxygen oxidation and the kinetics of surface reconstruction.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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