Journal
CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS
Volume 23, Issue 20, Pages 4515-4524Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/cm201783z
Keywords
lithium batteries; LiFePO4; TEM; phase mapping; precession electron diffraction
Funding
- French National Research Agency (ANR)
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A recent transmission electron microscopy (TEM) method using precession electron diffraction (PED) was used to obtain LiFePO4 and FePO4 phase mapping at the nanometer-scale level on a large number of particles of sizes between 50 and 300 nm in a partially charged cathode. Despite the similarity of the two phases (the difference of lattice parameters is <5%), the method gives clear results that have been confirmed using high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) and energy-filtered transmission electron microscopy/electron energy loss spectroscopy (EFTEM/EELS) experiments. The PED maps show that the particles are either fully lithiated or fully delithiated and, therefore, bring a strong support to the domino-cascade model at the nanoscale level (scale of a particle). A core-shell model or spinodal decomposition at mesoscale (scale of agglomerates of particles) is possible. Size effects on the transformation are also discussed.
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