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Boosting cycling stability by regulating surface oxygen vacancies of LNMO by rapid calcination

Show Author's Information Haoran Jiang1,  Cuihua Zeng1,  Wei Zhu1,  Jiawei Luo1,  Zhedong Liu1,  Jingchao Zhang1,  Rui Liu2,  Yunhua Xu1( ),  Yanan Chen1( ),  Wenbin Hu1
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266590, China
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oxygen vacancy, lithium-ion batteries, ultrafast synthesis, LiNi0.5−xMn1.5+xO4 (LNMO) cathode, high-temperature-shock
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Jiang H, Zeng C, Zhu W, et al. Boosting cycling stability by regulating surface oxygen vacancies of LNMO by rapid calcination. Nano Research, 2024, 17(4): 2671-2677. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-023-6076-1
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Spinel LiNi0.5−xMn1.5+xO4 (LNMO) has attracted intensive interest for lithium-ion battery due to its high voltage and high energy density. However, severe capacity fade attributed to unstable surface structure has hampered its commercialization. Oxygen vacancies (OVs) tend to occur in the surface of the material and lead to surface structure reconstruction, which deteriorates the battery performance during electrochemical cycling. Here, we utilize high-temperature-shock (HTS) method to synthesize LNMO materials with fewer surface OVs. Rapid calcination drives lower surface OVs concentration, reducing the content of Mn3+ and surface reconstruction layers, which is beneficial to obtain a stable crystal structure. The LNMO material synthesized by HTS method delivers an initial capacity of 127 mAh·g−1 at 0.1 C and capacity retention of 81.6% after 300 cycles at 1 C, and exhibits excellent performance at low temperature.


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Boosting cycling stability by regulating surface oxygen vacancies of LNMO by rapid calcination

Show Author's information Haoran Jiang1, Cuihua Zeng1, Wei Zhu1, Jiawei Luo1, Zhedong Liu1, Jingchao Zhang1, Rui Liu2, Yunhua Xu1( ), Yanan Chen1( ), Wenbin Hu1
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266590, China

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Spinel LiNi0.5−xMn1.5+xO4 (LNMO) has attracted intensive interest for lithium-ion battery due to its high voltage and high energy density. However, severe capacity fade attributed to unstable surface structure has hampered its commercialization. Oxygen vacancies (OVs) tend to occur in the surface of the material and lead to surface structure reconstruction, which deteriorates the battery performance during electrochemical cycling. Here, we utilize high-temperature-shock (HTS) method to synthesize LNMO materials with fewer surface OVs. Rapid calcination drives lower surface OVs concentration, reducing the content of Mn3+ and surface reconstruction layers, which is beneficial to obtain a stable crystal structure. The LNMO material synthesized by HTS method delivers an initial capacity of 127 mAh·g−1 at 0.1 C and capacity retention of 81.6% after 300 cycles at 1 C, and exhibits excellent performance at low temperature.

Keywords: oxygen vacancy, lithium-ion batteries, ultrafast synthesis, LiNi0.5−xMn1.5+xO4 (LNMO) cathode, high-temperature-shock

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Received: 30 June 2023
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The authors acknowledge the financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 52171219).

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