Nature Communications (Aug 2018)

Understanding voltage decay in lithium-excess layered cathode materials through oxygen-centred structural arrangement

  • Seungjun Myeong,
  • Woongrae Cho,
  • Wooyoung Jin,
  • Jaeseong Hwang,
  • Moonsu Yoon,
  • Youngshin Yoo,
  • Gyutae Nam,
  • Haeseong Jang,
  • Jung-Gu Han,
  • Nam-Soon Choi,
  • Min Gyu Kim,
  • Jaephil Cho

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05802-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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There is growing interest in the fundamental understanding of the voltage decay mechanism in Li-excess layered cathode materials. Here, the authors report a multilateral and macroscopic analysis that considers interaction between oxygen and atomic arrangement of Li1+x Ni y Co z Mn1−x−y−z O2.