Structural evolution of electrodes in the NCR and CGR cathode-containing commercial lithium-ion batteries cycled between 3.0 and 4.5 V: An operando neutron powder-diffraction study

Journal of Materials Research

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 373-380

  Pang, Wei Kong ^a,b   Alam, Moshiul ^a,c   Peterson, Vanessa K ^a   Sharma, Neeraj ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

crystallographic structure; Energy storage; neutron scattering

Indexed keywords

CATHODES; DIFFRACTION; ELECTRIC BATTERIES; ELECTRODES; ENERGY STORAGE; LITHIUM; LITHIUM ALLOYS; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; MANGANESE; NEUTRON POWDER DIFFRACTION; NEUTRON SCATTERING; NICKEL; POWDER METALS; SECONDARY BATTERIES; TRANSITION METALS;

C PARAMETER; CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC STRUCTURE; ISOSTRUCTURAL; LITHIATION; NEUTRON POWDERS; OPERANDO; OXYGEN BONDS; STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION;

LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES;

EID: 84940953848     PISSN: 08842914     EISSN: 20445326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2014.297     Document Type: Article

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