A first principles investigation of transitional metal doping in lithium battery cathode materials
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, 1999.
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| author | Buta, Sarah H. (Sarah Hume), 1972- |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/95502019-04-11T09:04:37Z A first principles investigation of transitional metal doping in lithium battery cathode materials Buta, Sarah H. (Sarah Hume), 1972- Gerbrand Ceder. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering. Materials Science and Engineering. Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, 1999. Includes bibliographical references (p. 77-82). The goal of this work is to understand the properties of mixed-metal intercalation oxides. Using first-principles methods, the effect of doping on the mixing, energetic, and voltage properties as well as the phase diagrams of lithium transition-metal oxides for lithium battery cathode materials was investigated. The effect of doping on the phase separation tendencies of layered transition-metal oxides was examined and it was found that for normal processing temperatures, Al is miscible in layered transition metal oxides (LiMO2) for five of the eight first-row transition metals studied. Temperature-composition phase diagrams for both Li(Al,Co)O2 and Li(Al,Cr)O2 were calculated. In these two systems, Al-doping is limited above 600°C by the formation of [gamma]-LiA1O2 and at very low temperatures owing to the existence of a miscibility gap. Reduced solubility is expected in the layered phase above 600°C for all oxides which have substantial solubility with LiA1O2 due to the formation of yLiAlO2. The effect of transition-metal doping on the average voltage properties in Mn-based spinets was calculated and the large increase in average voltage found experimentally was reproduced. A detailed analysis on the layered structure Li(Al,Co)O2 was performed, studying the energetics of different lithium sites and the effect of short-range clustering on the shape of the voltage curve. Though the average voltage is raised by Al substitution, the unexpected stability of sites with a few Al nearest neighbors leads to an initial decrease in voltage. For the Al-doped LiCoO2 system, a step in the voltage curve is found only for micro-segregated materials. When the Al and Co ions are randomly distributed in a solid solution, the voltage curve shows a continuous, gradual slope. The effect of oxygen defects in the Li(Al,Co)O2 system was investigated. A model for the effect of oxygen vacancies on the free energy of doped layered oxides was created by combining an ideal gas approximation and first-principles energy defect calculations. The results qualitatively confirm experimental studies on oxygen release in lithium battery materials. by Sarah H. Buta. S.M. 2005-08-22T19:13:36Z 2005-08-22T19:13:36Z 1999 1999 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/9550 43933766 eng M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 82 p. 5964644 bytes 5964401 bytes application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| spellingShingle | Materials Science and Engineering. Buta, Sarah H. (Sarah Hume), 1972- A first principles investigation of transitional metal doping in lithium battery cathode materials |
| title | A first principles investigation of transitional metal doping in lithium battery cathode materials |
| title_full | A first principles investigation of transitional metal doping in lithium battery cathode materials |
| title_fullStr | A first principles investigation of transitional metal doping in lithium battery cathode materials |
| title_full_unstemmed | A first principles investigation of transitional metal doping in lithium battery cathode materials |
| title_short | A first principles investigation of transitional metal doping in lithium battery cathode materials |
| title_sort | first principles investigation of transitional metal doping in lithium battery cathode materials |
| topic | Materials Science and Engineering. |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/9550 |
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