Unravelling structural ambiguities in lithium- and manganese-rich transition metal oxides

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Shukla, Alpesh Khushalchand ^a   Ramasse, Quentin M ^b   Ophus, Colin ^a   Duncan, Hugues ^a   Hage, Fredrik ^b   Chen, Guoying ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SUPERSTEM LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALT; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELECTRODE; LITHIUM; OXIDE; PRISTINE ENVIRONMENT; THIN SECTION;

EID: 84946106864     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9711     Document Type: Article

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