High-resolution X-ray diffraction, DIFFaX, NMR and first principles study of disorder in the Li2MnO3–Li[Ni1/2Mn1/2]O2 solid solution

Autor: Gerbrand Ceder, Meng Jiang, Clare P. Grey, Yang Shao-Horn, Julien Breger, Nicolas Dupré, Ying Shirley Meng
Rok vydání: 2005
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Zdroj: Journal of Solid State Chemistry. 178:2575-2585
ISSN: 0022-4596
Popis: X-ray diffraction patterns of Li[Li(1−2x)/3NixMn2/3−x/3]O2 show reflections between 20° and 35°, 2 θ (CuKα) due to Li2MnO3-like ordering of the transition metal (Ni, Mn and Li) layers. The ordering is rarely perfect, resulting in characteristic broadening and changes in the intensities of these reflections. 6Li MAS NMR studies of Li2MnO3 show that the [Li1/3Mn2/3] layers are well ordered, the disorder arising from the stacking of the layers in the c-direction. DIFFaX was used to model the Li2MnO3 XRD data and extract the stacking fault frequency. The results show that even well-ordered cation layers may show only weak or no superstructure reflections, if there is no or little ordering in the c-direction.
Databáze: OpenAIRE