Unraveling the Degradation Process of LiNi0.8Co0.15Al0.05O2 Electrodes in Commercial Lithium Ion Batteries by Electronic Structure Investigations

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Volumn 7, Issue 35, 2015, Pages 19589-19600

  Kleiner, Karin ^a,b   Melke, Julia ^a,c   Merz, Michael ^a   Jakes, Peter ^d   Nagel, Peter ^a   Schuppler, Stefan ^a   Liebau, Verena ^b   Ehrenberg, Helmut ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b BMW GROUP   (Germany)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

degradation mechanism; electronic structure; GITT; LiNi0.8Co0.15Al0.05O2; Ni L O K and Co L XAS spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; CATHODES; DEGRADATION; ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; MORPHOLOGY; NICKEL OXIDE; REACTION RATES; SURFACE MORPHOLOGY; X RAY ABSORPTION;

DEGRADATION MECHANISM; ELECTROCHEMICAL INVESTIGATIONS; ELECTROCHEMICAL PERFORMANCE; GALVANOSTATIC INTERMITTENT TITRATION TECHNIQUES; GITT; INTERCALATION/DEINTERCALATION; LINI0.8CO0.15AL0.05O2; XAS SPECTROSCOPY;

LITHIUM-ION BATTERIES;

EID: 84941144617     PISSN: 19448244     EISSN: 19448252     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b03191     Document Type: Article

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