Development of Li(Ni1/3Mn1/3Co1/3-x Na (x) )O-2 cathode materials by synthesizing with glycine nitrate combustion technique for Li-ion rechargeable batteries
Journal article, 2017

Glycine nitrate combustion technique was investigated for synthesizing Li(Ni1/3Mn1/3Co1/3-x Na (x) )O-2, x = 0-0.11 based transition metal oxide cathode materials for the rechargeable Li-ion battery (LIB) under this study. X-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscopy analysis showed that the synthesized powder samples were well crystalline rather spherical secondary particles. These secondary particles were composed of softly agglomerated nano-scale primary particles. The room temperature electrical conductivity of these Na-doped materials was significantly higher than that of the base material (2.60 x 10(-7) S/cm). Among them, the x = 0.04 material reported the highest electrical conductivity of 1.02 x 10(-03) S cm(-1). The half-cell assembled with cathode fabricated from Li(Ni1/3Mn1/3Co1/3)O-2 base material showed an initial discharge capacity of 187 mA h(-1) g(-1) with 25 mA h(-1) g(-1) irreversible capacity loss and 88.47% columbic efficiency at C/5 rate with a cut-off voltage of 2.5-4.6 V at 25 A degrees C. The electrochemical behavior of the x = 0.04 cathode showed a comparable initial discharge capacity as of the base material but with improved capacity retention.

Cell performance

Lithium ion rechargeable battery

Cathode material

Glycine nitrate combustion method

Transition metal oxide

Author

Thng Amaraweera

A. Wijayasinghe

Bengt-Erik Mellander

Chalmers, Physics, Subatomic and Plasma Physics

MAKL Dissanayake

Ionics

0947-7047 (ISSN) 18620760 (eISSN)

Vol. 23 11 3001-3011

Subject Categories

Inorganic Chemistry

DOI

10.1007/s11581-017-2098-6

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9/12/2018