Research summary
Future rechargeable Li battery development was framed around safety (requiring nonflammable electrolyte with wider HOMO-LUMO window or fast SEI formation), Li+ conductivity above 10^-4 S/cm, and increased stored-energy density across cells, with anode plating prevention identified as a central challenge [1]. The Li-ion rechargeable battery was reviewed as a system of two electrodes separated by an electrolyte that transfers ionic current internally and forces electronic current externally, with critical parameters of safety, energy density, cycle life, shelf life, storage efficiency and rate capability detailed [2]. Reversible extraction of lithium from LiFePO4 (triphylite) at 3.5 V vs. Li at 0.05 mA/cm2 yielded a specific capacity of 100-110 mAh/g (with extraction limited to ~0.6 Li/formula unit), and chemical extraction produced a new phase FePO4 isostructural with heterosite via a two-phase insertion/extraction mechanism, identifying phospho-olivines as low-power rechargeable Li battery cathodes [3]. The perovskite oxide Ba0.5Sr0.5Co0.8Fe0.2O3-delta (BSCF) was shown to catalyze the oxygen evolution reaction in alkaline media with intrinsic activity at least an order of magnitude higher than state-of-the-art IrO2, derived from a molecular-orbital design principle relating OER activity to 3d electron occupancy with an eg occupancy near unity across >10 transition metal oxides [4]. Semicovalent exchange theory was applied to perovskite-type manganites [La,M(II)]MnO3 with detailed qualitative predictions about magnetic and crystallographic lattices, resistivity and Curie temperature as functions of Mn4+ fraction, all in accord with neutron-diffraction and X-ray data and earlier Jonker-van Santen experiments [5].
Recent publications
- Challenges for Rechargeable Li BatteriesDOI
- The Li-Ion Rechargeable Battery: A PerspectiveDOI
- Phospho鈥恛livines as Positive鈥怑lectrode Materials for Rechargeable Lithium BatteriesDOI
- A Perovskite Oxide Optimized for Oxygen Evolution Catalysis from Molecular Orbital PrinciplesDOI
- Theory of the Role of Covalence in the Perovskite-Type Manganites[La, M(II)]MnO3DOI
- LixCoO2 (0 x -1): A new cathode material for batteries of high energy densityDOI
- Pathways for practical high-energy long-cycling lithium metal batteriesDOI
- Design principles for oxygen-reduction activity on perovskite oxide catalysts for fuel cells and metal鈥揳ir batteriesDOI
- Fast Na+-ion transport in skeleton structuresDOI
- Magnetism and the chemical bondDOI
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