In-situ neutron diffraction studies of LiCoO2 cathode material for Li-ion batteries

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LiCoO2 as cathode for Li-ion batteries suffers from a large capacity fading after extended cycling. The ordered structure (Li+ and Co3+ atoms occupy alternate (111) layers of the rock salt structure) undergoes several phase transitions during charge which cause structural degradation of the material. In fact, the structural stability of Li1-xCoO2 is maintained only for a limited compositional range 0<x0.5. This is attributed to the structural transition from a hexagonal to monoclinic phase. In order to monitor the phase transitions in LiCoO2 as a function of charge/discharge, we plan to use the new in-situ cell especially designed for Polaris.We expect to conduct Rietveld refinement for the LixCoO2 phases as a function of x and extract relevant structural information by Rietveld refinement.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.58446929
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/58446929
Provenance
Creator Mr Giles Flowitt-Hill; Professor Anthony West; Miss Hannah Johnston; Dr Jordi Jacas Biendicho; Mr Bo Dong; Dr Lewis Owen; Mr Ali Shehu; Dr Steve Hull; Dr Nik Reeves-McLaren; Dr Ron Smith
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2018
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2015-03-23T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2015-03-25T09:02:52Z