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CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS
卷 25, 期 22, 页码 4574-4584出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/cm4027682
关键词
olivine; sarcopside; endotaxy; defects; single crystal; reciprocal salt; LiFePO4; Fe-3(PO4)(2); Li3PO4; Fe2ClPO4
资金
- Northeastern Center for Chemical Energy Storage (NECCES)
- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences [DE-SC0001294, DE-AC02-98CH10886]
- NYSTAR-NYSDED
- Energy Frontier Research Center
- Scientific User Facilities Division, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, U.S. Department of Energy
- Office of Basic Energy Sciences, U.S. Department of Energy
- National Science Foundation [CHE-0840483]
Improved methods for the flux growth of single crystals of the important battery material LiFePO4 have been developed, allowing the facile preparation of single crystals up to 1 cm across with well-developed facets at relatively low temperatures. The structural characterization of these samples by both powder X-ray diffraction and single crystal diffraction (X-ray and a in neutron) indicates that the samples are typically stoichiometric with a very low concentration of Fe defects on the Li site, though crystals with larger concentrations of defects can be specifically grown using Fe-rich fluxes. These defects occur through the formation of a Fe-rich (Li1-2xFex)FePO4 partial solid solution, in contrast to the antisite defects more commonly discussed in the literature which would preserve the ideal LiFePO4 stoichiometry. The LiFePO4 defects are shown to be sarcopside-like (2 Li+ -> Fe2+ + vacancy) based on compositions refined from single crystal diffraction data, the observed dependence of unit cell parameters on defect concentration, and their observed phase behavior (defects only appear in growths from fluxes which are Fe-rich relative to stoichiometric LiFePO4). The distribution of defects has been studied by aberration corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy and was found to be highly inhomogenous, suggesting that defect-containing crystals may consist of endotaxial intergrowths of olivine LiFePO4 and sarcopside Fe-3(PO4)(2) in a manner that minimizes the detrimental influence of Fe-Li defects on the rate of Li-ion transport within crystallites.
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