P and Al substitutions in the lithium battery cathode Li2FeSiO4

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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 prepared the solid solutions Li2+2xMn1-xSiO4 and Li2+2xFe1-xSiO4, the subject of a previous ISIS proposal. Here we address doping on the Si site ¿ i.e. tuning the polyoxyanion. We have recently succeeded in preparing the solid solutions Li2+xFe1-xSi1-xPxO4 and Li2+yFezSi1-xAlxO4 (for a range of compositions). Although for Fe contents < 1, the theoretical capacity is reduced, replacing the polyoxyanion provides a means of adjusting the operating voltage. Increased Li content should also confer added structural stability on lithium extraction. We wish to establish the structures as a function of dopant concentration and as Li is extracted/re-inserted.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24088343
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24088343
Provenance
Creator Professor Peter Bruce; Dr Robert Armstrong; Dr Paul Adamson; Miss Juliette Billaud; Dr Robert Dominko
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2014
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 2011-12-05T05:55:31Z
Temporal Coverage End 2011-12-22T18:02:47Z