Computational and experimental investigation of Ti substitution in Li1(NixMnxCo1-2x-yTiy)O2 for lithium ion batteries

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 21, 2014, Pages 3649-3655

  Markus, Isaac M ^a,b   Lin, Feng ^b   Kam, Kinson C ^c   Asta, Mark ^a,b   Doeff, Marca M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c HALDOR TOPSØE A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATHODE MATERIALS; CATHODES; COMPUTATION THEORY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; POSITIVE IONS; TRANSITION METAL COMPOUNDS; TRANSITION METALS;

ALIOVALENT SUBSTITUTION; ELECTRONIC MODIFICATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; LITHIUM INTERCALATION; PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENTS; SELECTIVE SUBSTITUTION; STRUCTURAL DIFFERENCES; STRUCTURAL DISTORTIONS;

LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES;

EID: 84908621822     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz5017526     Document Type: Article

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