Quasi-elastic neutron studies of superstructure formation in battery materials

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LixCoO2 is used extensively in portable batteries in laptops and mobile phones, but the scarcity of Li means that alternative materials are required. Structurally related NaxCoO2 has excellent electrochemical performance, and greater stability than its Li-ion analogue. Our neutron Laue diffraction measurements on a large single crystal of Na0.8CoO2 reveal fully ordered stripes of tri-vacancy clusters at low temperature that transform to a partially ordered structure just below room temperature, where the sodium ions and vacancies within the stripes become disordered. 23Na NMR measurements suggest that the ions within these stripes become mobile at this temperature. We plan to study the diffusion mechanism using quasi-elastic neutron scattering on LET. The role of the diffusion of ions in the formation of superstructures is of key importance in reversibility during battery cycling.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24089231
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24089231
Provenance
Creator Professor Andrew Boothroyd; Professor Jon Goff; Dr David Voneshen; Dr Michel Roger; Mr Toby Willis
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2015
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2012-08-03T08:24:50Z
Temporal Coverage End 2012-09-25T14:15:49Z