High magnesium mobility in ternary spinel chalcogenides

Pieremanuele Canepa; Shou-Hang Bo; Gopalakrishnan Sai Gautam; Baris Key; William D. Richards; Tan Shi; Yaosen Tian; Yan Wang; Juchuan Li; Gerbrand Ceder

doi:10.1038/s41467-017-01772-1

Nature Communications (Nov 2017)

High magnesium mobility in ternary spinel chalcogenides

Pieremanuele Canepa,
Shou-Hang Bo,
Gopalakrishnan Sai Gautam,
Baris Key,
William D. Richards,
Tan Shi,
Yaosen Tian,
Yan Wang,
Juchuan Li,
Gerbrand Ceder

Affiliations

Pieremanuele Canepa: Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Shou-Hang Bo: Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Gopalakrishnan Sai Gautam: Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Baris Key: Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory
William D. Richards: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tan Shi: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California Berkeley
Yaosen Tian: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California Berkeley
Yan Wang: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Juchuan Li: Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Gerbrand Ceder: Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01772-1
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Low magnesium mobility in solids represents a significant obstacle to the development of Mg intercalation batteries. Here the authors show that substantial magnesium ion mobility can be achieved in close-packed ternary selenide spinel materials.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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