Journal
ADVANCED ENERGY MATERIALS
Volume 13, Issue 21, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/aenm.202203654
Keywords
ceramics; energy materials; materials science; sodium-ion batteries
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Non-equilibrium defects play a crucial role in determining the macroscopic properties of materials, especially in intercalation hosts in rechargeable batteries. Recent imaging methods have revealed the transient appearance of dislocations during ion diffusion in intercalation hosts. However, there is still limited understanding of the impact, formation, and self-healing mechanisms of transient defects. In this study, the unique metastable domain boundary formation, defect self-healing, and local impact of defects on ionic diffusion in NaxNi1-yMnyO2 intercalation hosts were captured using operando X-ray Bragg Coherent Diffractive Imaging (BCDI) and diffraction peak analysis.
Non-equilibrium defects often dictate the macroscopic properties of materials. They largely define the reversibility and kinetics of processes in intercalation hosts in rechargeable batteries. Recently, imaging methods have demonstrated that transient dislocations briefly appear in intercalation hosts during ion diffusion. Despite new discoveries, the understanding of impact, formation and self-healing mechanisms of transient defects, including and beyond dislocations, is lacking. Here, operando X-ray Bragg Coherent Diffractive Imaging (BCDI) and diffraction peak analysis capture the stages of formation of a unique metastable domain boundary, defect self-healing, and resolve the local impact of defects on ionic diffusion in NaxNi1-yMnyO2 intercalation hosts in a charging sodium-ion battery. Results, applicable to a wide range of layered intercalation materials due to the shared nature of framework layers, elucidate new dynamics of transient defects and their connection to macroscopic properties, and suggest how to control the nanostructure dynamics.
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