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ADVANCED MATERIALS
Volume 32, Issue 33, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adma.202002718
Keywords
cobalt-free cathode materials; high-nickel layered oxides; high-nickel NMA; lithium-ion batteries; zero cobalt
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- Office of Vehicle Technologies of the U.S. Department of Energy [DE-EE0008445]
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High-nickel LiNi1-x-yMnxCoyO2(NMC) and LiNi1-x-yCoxAlyO2(NCA) are the cathode materials of choice for next-generation high-energy lithium-ion batteries. Both NMC and NCA contain cobalt, an expensive and scarce metal generally believed to be essential for their electrochemical performance. Herein, a high-Ni LiNi1-x-yMnxAlyO2(NMA) cathode of desirable electrochemical properties is demonstrated benchmarked against NMC, NCA, and Al-Mg-codoped NMC (NMCAM) of identical Ni content (89 mol%) synthesized in-house. Despite a slightly lower specific capacity, high-Ni NMA operates at a higher voltage by approximate to 40 mV and shows no compromise in rate capability relative to NMC and NCA. In pouch cells paired with graphite, high-Ni NMA outperforms both NMC and NCA and only slightly trails NMCAM and a commercial cathode after 1000 deep cycles. Further, the superior thermal stability of NMA to NMC, NCA, and NMCAM is shown using differential scanning calorimetry. Considering the flexibility in compositional tuning and immediate synthesis scalability of high-Ni NMA very similar to NCA and NMC, this study opens a new space for cathode material development for next-generation high-energy, cobalt-free Li-ion batteries.
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