In Situ X-ray Diffraction and X-ray Absorption Spectroscopic Studies of a Lithium-Rich Layered Positive Electrode Material: Comparison of Composite and Core-Shell Structures
| Autor: | Stefan Mangold, Helmut Ehrenberg, Lukas Pfaffman, Sylvio Indris, Natalia Bramnik, Georgian Melinte, Vanessa Trouillet, Mariyam Susana Dewi Darma, Cyril O. Ehi-Eromosele, Angelina Sarapulova, Michael Knapp |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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X-ray absorption spectroscopy
Materials science Absorption spectroscopy Composite number 02 engineering and technology Electrolyte 010402 general chemistry 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology Electrochemistry 01 natural sciences Lithium-ion battery 0104 chemical sciences Electrode Surface modification General Materials Science Composite material 0210 nano-technology |
| Zdroj: | ACS applied materialsinterfaces. 12(12) |
| ISSN: | 1944-8252 |
| Popis: | Lithium- and manganese-rich transition-metal oxide (LMR-NMC) electrodes have been designed either as heterostructures of the primary components ("composite") or as core-shell structures with improved electrochemistry reported for both configurations when compared with their primary components. A detailed electrochemical and structural investigation of the 0.5Li2MnO3-0.5LiNi0.5Mn0.3Co0.2O2 composite and core-shell structured positive electrode materials is reported. The core-shell material shows better overall electrochemical performance compared to its corresponding composite material. While both configurations gave the same initial charge capacity of ∼300 mAh/g when cycled at a rate of 10 mA/g at 25 °C, the core-shell sample gives a discharge capacity of 232 mAh/g compared to 208 mAh/g delivered by the composite sample. Also, the core-shell sample gave better rate capability and a smaller first-cycle irreversible capacity loss than the composite sample. The improved performance of the core-shell material is attributed to its lower surface reactivity and limited structural change since the more stable Li2MnO3 shell screens the more reactive Ni-rich core material from interacting with either air or electrolyte at high potentials, thereby preventing electrode surface modification. In situ X-ray diffraction correlated with electrochemical data revealed that the composite sample shows stronger volumetric changes in the lattice parameters during charging to 4.8 V. In addition, X-ray absorption spectroscopy showed an incomplete Ni reduction process after the first discharge for the composite sample. From these results, it was shown that this leads to a more severe degradation in the composite material that affects Li+ intercalation in the subsequent discharge, thereby resulting in its poorer performance. Furthermore, to confirm these results, another LMR-NMC material with a different composition (having a Ni-poor core)-0.5Li2MnO3-0.5LiNi0.33Mn0.33Co0.33O2-was investigated. The core-shell structured positive electrode material also gave an improved electrochemical performance compared to the corresponding composite positive electrode material. These results show that the core-shell configuration could effectively be used to improve the performance of the LMR-NMC materials to enable future high-energy applications. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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