Structure of the lithium battery cathode Li2+2x(Fe,Mn)1-xSiO4

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There is great interest in scaling up Li-ion batteries for use in electric vehicles, requiring cheap and safe cathodes. Li2FeSiO4 shows promising performance as a cathode but shows rather poor rate capability. We have recently prepared the solid solutions Li2+2xMn1-xSiO4 and Li2+2xFe1-xSiO4 which exhibit enhancement of the rate capability compared with the stoichiometric compounds. We wish to determine the detailed structure, including Li positions, for several Li2+2xFe1-xSiO4 and Li2+2xMn1-xSiO4 phases both as-prepared and as a function of electrochemical cycling. In order to optimise these potentially important materials it is vital to understand the processes which occur on cycling, particularly phase changes.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24088873
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24088873
Provenance
Creator Professor Peter Bruce; Dr Robert Armstrong; Dr Paul Adamson; Miss Juliette Billaud
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2015
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 2012-05-28T10:04:18Z
Temporal Coverage End 2012-08-06T22:24:50Z