Co-free Li-rich oxide shows promise as a cathode for low-cost high-energy density Li-ion batteries but presents poor cyclic stability. To address this issue, a novel CeO2-coated Li-rich oxide composite is developed by applying a layer of CeO2 onto Co...
Li-rich layered oxide (LRLO) materials are promising positive-electrode materials for Li-ion batteries. Antisite defects, especially nickel and lithium ions, occur spontaneously in many LRLOs, but their impact on the functional properties in batterie...
Li-rich Mn-based cathode materials are considered potential cathode materials for next-generation lithium-ion batteries due to their outstanding theoretical capacity and energy density. Nonetheless, challenges like oxygen loss, transition metal migra...
Lithium-rich manganese oxide is a promising candidate for the next-generation cathode material of lithium-ion batteries because of its low cost and high specific capacity. Herein, a series of xLi2MnO3·(1 − x)LiMnO2 nanocomposites were designed via an...
Li-rich layered oxide cathode materials have become one of the most promising cathode materials for high specific energy lithium-ion batteries owning to its high theoretical specific capacity, low cost, high operating voltage and environmental friend...
Lithium-rich layered oxides are recognized as promising materials for Li-ion batteries, owing to higher capacity than the currently available commercialized cathode, for their lower cost. However, their voltage decay and cycling instability during th...
An amorphous complex precursor with uniform Mn/Ni cation distribution is attempted for preparing a nano-structured layered Li-rich oxide (Li1.2Mn0.6Ni0.2O2)cathode material, using diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA) as a chelating agent. The ma...
Integrated Li- and Mn-rich layered cathodes yLi2MnO3∙(1-y)LiMO2 (M = Mn, Co, and Ni) have shown their ability to deliver specific capacities close to 300 mAh g−1, but their significant drawbacks are capacity fading and voltage decay durin...
Layered lithium-rich manganese oxide (LLO) cathode materials have attracted much attention for the development of high-performance lithium-ion batteries. However, they have suffered seriously from disadvantages, such as large irreversible capacity lo...
Li-rich Mn-based layered oxides are among the most promising cathode materials for next-generation lithium-ion batteries, yet they suffer from capacity fading and voltage decay during cycling. The electrochemical performance of the material can be im...
All-solid-state lithium batteries (ASSLBs) employing Li-rich layered oxide (LLO) cathodes are regarded as promising next-generation energy storage systems owing to their outstanding energy density and intrinsic safety. Polymer-in-salt solid electroly...
Lithium-rich layered oxides (LRLO) are a wide class of innovative active materials used in positive electrodes in lithium-ion (LIB) and lithium–metal secondary batteries (LMB). LRLOs are over-stoichiometric layered oxides rich in lithium and ma...
Lithium-rich layered oxide (LLO) are considered high-capacity cathode materials for next-generation lithium-ion batteries. In this study, LLO cathode materials were synthesized via the hydroxide coprecipitation method followed by a two-step lithiatio...
Lithium-rich manganese is a promising new-generation cathode material for lithium-ion batteries. However, it has the common problems of serious discharge capacity decline, poor rate performance, and faster midpoint voltage decay. In this experiment,...
Composite positive electrode materials (1−x) LiNi0.8Mn0.1Co0.1O2∙xLi2SO4 (x = 0.002–0.005) for Li-ion batteries have been synthesized via conventional hydroxide or carbonate coprecipitation routes with subsequent high-temperature lithiation in either...
Li-ion batteries (LIBs) employ porous, composite-type electrodes, where few weight percentages of carbonaceous conducting agents and polymeric binders are required to bestow electrodes with electrical conductivity and mechanical robustness. However,...
The phase evolution of Li-rich Li-Mn-Ni-(Al)-O cathode materials upon heat treatments in the air at 900 °C was studied by X-ray and neutron powder diffraction. In addition, the structures of Li1.26Mn0.61−xAlx Ni0.15O2, x = 0.0, 0.05, and 0....
This article studies the doping of Li-rich cathode materials. Aluminum and iron were chosen as dopants. Li-rich cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries, which were composed of Li1.2Ni0.133Mn0.534Co0.133O2 with a partial replacement of cobalt (2 a...
Ni-rich LiNi0.8Co0.1Mn0.1O2 oxide has been modified by ultrathin Al2O3 coatings via atomic layer deposition (ALD) at a growth rate of 1.12 Å/cycle. All characterizations results including TEM, SEM, XRD and XPS together confirm high conformality...
The layered oxides LiNixMnyCozO2 (NMCs, x + y + z = 1) with high nickel content (x ≥ 0.6, Ni-rich NMCs) are promising high-energy density-positive electrode materials for Li-ion batteries. Their electrochemical properties depend on Li+/Ni2+ cation di...
Ni-rich layered oxides, i.e., LiNi0.6Mn0.2Co0.2O2 (NMC622) and LiNiO2 (LNO), were prepared using the two-step calcination procedure. The samples obtained at different calcination temperatures (750–950 °C for the NMC622 and 650–850 &de...
Lithium-rich layered oxide is one of the most promising candidates for the next-generation cathode materials of high-energy-density lithium ion batteries because of its high discharge capacity. However, it has the disadvantages of uneven composition,...
Cobalt-free manganese-based lithium-rich layered oxides (LLOs) have garnered research attention as prospective lithium-ion cathode materials owing to their large specific capacity and low price. However, their large-scale application is hindered by t...
Ni-rich layered transition metal (TM) oxides are considered to be the most promising cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries because of their high electrochemical capacity, high Li+ ion (de)intercalation potential, and low cobalt content. However...
Li-rich layered oxides utilizing reversible oxygen redox are promising cathodes for high-energy-density lithium-ion batteries. However, they exhibit different electrochemical profiles before and after oxygen redox activation. Therefore, advanced char...
Abundant Li-Cs-Ta aplite-pegmatite dykes were emplaced in the western Central Iberian Zone of the Iberian Massif during the Variscan Orogeny. Their origin and petrogenetic relationships with the widespread granitoids have led to a currently rekindled...
Herein, the lithium-rich material Li[Li0.2Mn0.56Ni0.16Co0.08]O2 is successfully prepared by a sucrose-assisted gel method. With the assistance of sucrose, Li[Li0.2Mn0.56Ni0.16Co0.08]O2 precursors can be uniformly dispersed into sticky sucrose gel wit...
Li-rich oxides are promising cathode materials for Li-ion batteries. In this work, a number of different compositions of Li-rich materials and various electrochemical testing modes were investigated. The structure, chemical composition, and morpholog...
The deposition of a thin LixSny alloy layer by plasma vapor deposition (PVD) on the surface of a Li foil is reported. The formation of a Li-rich alloy is confirmed by the volume expansion (up to 380%) of the layer and by the disappearance of metallic...
The commercialization of lithium manganese oxide (LMO) is seriously hindered by several drawbacks, such as low initial Coulombic efficiency, the degradation of the voltage and capacity during cycling, and the poor rating performance. Developing a sim...
The development of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) is important in the realm of energy storage. Understanding the intricate effects of binders on the Li+ transport at the cathode/electrolyte interface in LIBs remains a challenge. This study utilized mol...
This work deals with the comparative analysis of fluoride coatings, i.e., 5 wt.% AlF3 and LiF, applied as surface layer of Li-rich Li1.2Ni0.13Co0.13Mn0.54O2 (LNCM) layered oxides synthesized via facile and cost-effective sol–gel route. The deta...
The Giraúl granitic pegmatite field in Angola is composed of five pegmatite types, the most evolved belong to the beryl-columbite, beryl-columbite-phosphate and spodumene types. Pegmatites are concentrically zoned with increased grain size tow...
Lithium-rich layered oxide cathode materials of Li1.2Mn0.5100Ni0.2175Co0.0725O2 have been synthesized using metal salts with acetate and nitrate anions as precursors in glycerol solvent. The effects of the precursor metal salts on particle size, morp...
Spinel Li4Mn5O12 was successfully prepared by the wet chemical method to modify the surface of Li1.2Ni0.2Mn0.6O2. The results showed that an ultrathin spinel Li4Mn5O12 surface-modified layer with a thickness of approximately 10 nm was successfully co...
The replacement of cobalt in the lattice of lithium-rich layered oxides (LRLO) is mandatory to improve their environmental benignity and reduce costs. In this study, we analyze the impact of the cobalt removal from the trigonal LRLO lattice on the st...
“Spinel-layered” Li1+xNi0.5Mn1.5O4 (x = 0, 0.5, 1) materials are considered as a cobalt-free alternative to currently used positive electrode (cathode) materials for Li-ion batteries. In this work, their electrochemical properties and corresponding p...
The traditional recycling process of spent lithium-ion battery(LIB) with high Mn content faces the defects of high cost of neutralization and precipitation, poor economics of Mn extraction, and serious Li loss. Therefore, this paper introduces a comp...
Cation-disordered rock salt (DRX) cathodes exhibit high specific capacity due to the simultaneous use of anionic and cationic redox reactions. However, DRX systems face severe challenges that limit their practical applications; a most important chall...
Li-rich manganese-based oxide (LRMO) cathode materials are considered to be one of the most promising candidates for next-generation lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) because of their high specific capacity (250 mAh g−1) and low cost. However, the i...
The aim of this article is to examine the progress achieved in the recent years on two advanced cathode materials for EV Li-ion batteries, namely Ni-rich layered oxides LiNi0.8Co0.15Al0.05O2 (NCA) and LiNi0.8Co0.1Mn0.1O2 (NCM811). Both materials have...
This manuscript presents the results from the synthesis and characterization of a slag analogue with a nominal composition of 17 wt% LiMnO2 and 83 wt% Ca2SiO4 encountering fairly high cooling rates in order to study the evolution of Mn-species. The M...
The cathode, a crucial constituent part of Li-ion batteries, determines the output voltage and integral energy density of batteries to a great extent. Among them, Ni-rich LiNixCoyMnzO2 (x + y + z = 1, x ≥ 0.6) layered transition metal oxides posse...
Lithium aluminum oxide has previously been identified to be a suitable compound to recover lithium (Li) from Li-ion battery recycling slags. Its formation is hampered in the presence of high concentrations of manganese (9 wt.% MnO2). In this study, m...
Driven by the increasing plea for greener transportation and efficient integration of renewable energy sources, Ni-rich metal layered oxides, namely NMC, Li [Ni1−x−yCoyMnz] O2 (x + y ≤ 0.4), and NCA, Li [Ni1−x−yCoxAly] O2,...
This study aims to investigate the effect of Na doping on the structure, electrical, and electrochemical properties of lithium-rich cathode material. Pristine Li1.2Ni0.13Mn0.54Co0.13O2 (LNMC) and Na-doped Li1.17Na0.03Ni0.13Mn0.54Co0.13O2 (Na-LNMC) la...
Fast charging-discharging is one of the important requirements for next-generation high-energy Li-ion batteries, nevertheless, electrons transport in the active oxide materials is limited. Thus, carbon coating of active materials is a common method t...
The increasing need-based demand for lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries in electric vehicles and energy storage systems necessitates the development of efficient and sustainable recycling methods. This study investigates the effect of oxidative r...
Development in high-rate electrode materials capable of storing vast amounts of charge in a short duration to decrease charging time and increase power in lithium-ion batteries is an important challenge to address. Here, we introduce a synthesis stra...
Oxide minerals (Nb–Ta-rich rutile, columbite-group minerals and W-bearing ixiolite) represent the most common host for Nb, Ta and Ti in high-F, high-P2O5 Li-mica granites and related rocks from the Geyersberg granite stock in the Krušné Hory/Erzgebir...
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