Structure of the lithium battery cathode Li2(Fe,Mn)SiO4

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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 has limited capacity since only 1 lithium may be removed and reinserted. The Li2(Fe,Mn)SiO4 solid solution is of particular interest as both DFT calculations and preliminary studies indicate that with appropriate cut-off voltage this system can deliver a reversible capacity of 200mAhg−1 (compared with 120mAhg-1 for Li2FeSiO4) and at least partially exploiting the change of oxidation state Mn(II) to Mn(IV). We wish to determine the detailed structure, including Li positions, for several Li2(Fe,Mn)SiO4 phases 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.24080017
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24080017
Provenance
Creator Professor Peter Bruce; Dr Robert Armstrong
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2013
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 2010-03-01T04:43:52Z
Temporal Coverage End 2010-03-12T09:24:01Z