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ACS ENERGY LETTERS
Volume 8, Issue 2, Pages 901-908Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.2c02507
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A new Li-Mn-O nanohybrid cathode was developed using phase complex engineering, which integrated layered nanodomains and spinel nanodomains to effectively suppress the irreversible lattice oxygen loss at high potentials and enhance cycling stability. This strategy offers a new path for developing stable high-energy-density cathode materials.
Among all intercalation cathodes for Li-ion batteries, Li-Mn-O layered oxides offer the highest initial energy density at the lowest cost, due to the joint contribution from cationic and anionic redox chemistry. However, the poor cycling capability, resulting from the continuous lattice O loss at high potentials (>4.5 V), hinders practical applications. Herein, we employed phase complex engineering to obtain a new Li-Mn-O nanohybrid cathode featuring the uniform and coherent integration of layered nanodomains and spinel nanodomains. The combination of DFT calculations, synchrotron-based transmission X-ray microscopy, in situ differential electrochemical mass spectrometry, in situ synchrotron XRD, and electrochemical tests demonstrated that the O migration path in layered nanodomains was blocked by the neighboring spinel nanodomains with a higher oxygen vacancy migration energy, thus effectively suppressing the irreversible lattice O loss at high potentials and enhancing the cycling stability in both capacity and average voltage. The strategy is experimentally demonstrated to be effective and it leads to a new path for developing stable high-energy-density cathode materials.
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