Stabilizing the Oxygen Lattice and Reversible Oxygen Redox Chemistry through Structural Dimensionality in Lithium-Rich Cathode Oxides

Enyue Zhao, Qinghao Li, Fanqi Meng, Jue Liu, Junyang Wang, Lunhua He, Zheng Jiang, Qinghua Zhang, Xiqian Yu, Lin Gu, Wanli Yang, Hong Li, Fangwei Wang, Xuejie Huang

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Abstract

Lattice-oxygen redox (l-OR) has become an essential companion to the traditional transition-metal (TM) redox charge compensation to achieve high capacity in Li-rich cathode oxides. However, the understanding of l-OR chemistry remains elusive, and a critical question is the structural effect on the stability of l-OR reactions. Herein, the coupling between l-OR and structure dimensionality is studied. We reveal that the evolution of the oxygen-lattice structure upon l-OR in Li-rich TM oxides which have a three-dimensional (3D)-disordered cation framework is relatively stable, which is in direct contrast to the clearly distorted oxygen-lattice framework in Li-rich oxides which have a two-dimensional (2D)/3D-ordered cation structure. Our results highlight the role of structure dimensionality in stabilizing the oxygen lattice in reversible l-OR, which broadens the horizon for designing high-energy-density Li-rich cathode oxides with stable l-OR chemistry.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)4323-4327
Number of pages5
JournalAngewandte Chemie - International Edition
Volume58
Issue number13
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 22 2019

Funding

This work was supported by funding from National Key R&D Program of China (2016YFA0202500), Foundation for Innovative Research Groups of the NSFC (No. 51421002), NSFC (No. 11675255, 51502334, 51822211). This work used resources of the ALS, which is a US DOE Office of Science User Facility, W.Y. acknowledges support from EERE VTO under the Applied Battery Materials Program of the US DOE, both under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231.

Keywords

  • cathodes
  • lattice oxygen redox
  • lithium-ion batteries
  • oxides
  • structural dimensionality

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