Nature Communications (Sep 2020)

Dislocation and oxygen-release driven delithiation in Li2MnO3

  • Kei Nakayama,
  • Ryo Ishikawa,
  • Shunsuke Kobayashi,
  • Naoya Shibata,
  • Yuichi Ikuhara

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18285-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

Read online

The delithiation process in lithium excess cathode material of Li2MnO3 has remained unclear. Here, the authors report that delithiation is governed by the climb motion of dislocations with the aid of oxygen-release, determined directly by atomic-resolution STEM imaging and spectroscopy.