A Search for the Optimum Lithium Rich Layered Metal Oxide Cathode Material for Li-Ion Batteries.

J Electrochem Soc

Center for Renewable Energy Technology, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.

Published: April 2015

We report the results of a comprehensive study of the relationship between electrochemical performance in Li cells and chemical composition of a series of Li rich layered metal oxides of the general formula xLiMnO · (1-x)LiMnNiCoO in which x = 0,1, 0.2, 0,3, 0.5 or 0.7, synthesized using the same method. In order to identify the cathode material having the optimum Li cell performance we first varied the ratio between LiMnO and LiMO segments of the composite oxides while maintaining the same metal ratio residing within their LiMO portions. The materials with the overall composition 0.5LiMnO · 0.5LiMO containing 0.5 mole of LiMnO per mole of the composite metal oxide were found to be the optimum in terms of electrochemical performance. The electrochemical properties of these materials were further tuned by changing the relative amounts of Mn, Ni and Co in the LiMO segment to produce xLiMnO · (1-x)LiMnNiCoO with enhanced capacities and rate capabilities. The rate capability of the lithium rich compound in which x = 0.3 was further increased by preparing electrodes with about 2 weight-percent multiwall carbon nanotube in the electrode. Lithium cells prepared with such electrodes were cycled at the 4C rate with little fade in capacity for over one hundred cycles.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4606869PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1149/2.0481507jesDOI Listing

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