Atomic-Resolution Visualization of Distinctive Chemical Mixing Behavior of Ni, Co, and Mn with Li in Layered Lithium Transition-Metal Oxide Cathode Materials

Chemistry of Materials

Volumn 27, Issue 15, 2015, Pages 5393-5401

  Yan, Pengfei ^a   Zheng, Jianming ^b   Lv, Dongping ^b   Wei, Yi ^c   Zheng, Jiaxin ^c   Wang, Zhiguo ^d   Kuppan, Saravanan ^e   Yu, Jianguo ^f   Luo, Langli ^a   Edwards, Danny ^b   Olszta, Matthew ^b   Amine, Khalil ^g   Liu, Jun ^b   Xiao, Jie ^b   Pan, Feng ^c   Chen, Guoying ^e   Zhang, Ji Guang ^b   Wang, Chong Min ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^e LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATHODES; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRODES; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; LATTICE THEORY; LITHIUM; LITHIUM ALLOYS; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES; MANGANESE; METAL IONS; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; METALS; MIXING; NICKEL; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TRANSITION METALS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VISUALIZATION;

ABERRATION-CORRECTED; CATH-ODE MATERIALS; DENSITY FUNCTION THEORY CALCULATIONS; LATTICE POSITIONS; LAYERED STRUCTURED; LINEAR DEPENDENCE; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; TRANSITION-METAL OXIDES;

TRANSITION METAL COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84938915196     PISSN: 08974756     EISSN: 15205002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b02016     Document Type: Article

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