Nature Communications (Feb 2022)

Thermal-healing of lattice defects for high-energy single-crystalline battery cathodes

  • Shaofeng Li,
  • Guannan Qian,
  • Xiaomei He,
  • Xiaojing Huang,
  • Sang-Jun Lee,
  • Zhisen Jiang,
  • Yang Yang,
  • Wei-Na Wang,
  • Dechao Meng,
  • Chang Yu,
  • Jun-Sik Lee,
  • Yong S. Chu,
  • Zi-Feng Ma,
  • Piero Pianetta,
  • Jieshan Qiu,
  • Linsen Li,
  • Kejie Zhao,
  • Yijin Liu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28325-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The lattice strain and defects in layered oxides is critical to the intercalation chemistry and battery performance. Here, the authors demonstrate a thermal-healing of lattice defects in single-crystalline cathodes caused by the thermal-induced release of lattice strain and the structure ordering.