Journal
NANO ENERGY
Volume 96, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.nanoen.2022.107092
Keywords
Lithium-ion batteries; Li-Mn-O layered oxides; Post-annealing; Core-shell structural architecture; Structure stability
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [52172175]
- Shenzhen Science and Technology Research Grant [JCYJ20200109140416788, JCYJ20210324130812033]
- Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Guangdong Laboratory [1922018]
- National Key R&D Program of China [2020YFB0704500]
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Li-Mn-O layered oxides are a promising low-cost cathode material, but their thermal stability needs improvement. This study investigates the heat-induced structural/chemical evolution of Li-Mn-O materials and successfully synthesizes new materials with different core-shell microstructures.
Being free of cobalt and nickel, Li-Mn-O layered oxides are considered as one of the most promising candidate cathodes due to the low cost and high specific capacity. The relatively poor thermal stability of Li-Mn-O layered oxides can lead to battery safety issues, and thus needs to be improved for practical applications. Herein, we systemically investigated the heat-induced structural/chemical evolution of a Li-Mn-O material, revealing a twostep phase transition process through concurrent Li and O loss, heterogeneously occurring in the bulk and at the surface of the primary particles. Based on the understanding of structural change, two new Li-Mn-O materials with different core-shell microstructures, one with a spinel shell and another with an orthorhombic shell, were synthesized. Experimentally, the one with the spinel shell achieved an ultrahigh decomposition temperature of similar to 300 degrees C, which is vital for battery safety. This material also exhibited greatly enhanced cycling stability and rate capability due to the protection role of the spinel shell. This work paves new routes to produce high-performance cathode materials with various heterostructure architectures through the tunning temperature-sensitive structure evolution process.
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