Enabling the high capacity of lithium-rich anti-fluorite lithium iron oxide by simultaneous anionic and cationic redox

Chun Zhan; Zhenpeng Yao; Jun Lu; Lu Ma; Victor A. Maroni; Liang Li; Eungje Lee; Esen E. Alp; Tianpin Wu; Jianguo Wen; Yang Ren; Christopher Johnson; Michael M. Thackeray; Maria K.Y. Chan; Chris Wolverton; Khalil Amine

doi:10.1038/s41560-017-0043-6

Enabling the high capacity of lithium-rich anti-fluorite lithium iron oxide by simultaneous anionic and cationic redox

Chun Zhan, Zhenpeng Yao, Jun Lu^*, Lu Ma, Victor A. Maroni, Liang Li, Eungje Lee, Esen E. Alp, Tianpin Wu, Jianguo Wen, Yang Ren, Christopher Johnson, Michael M. Thackeray, Maria K.Y. Chan, Chris Wolverton, Khalil Amine

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Anionic redox reactions in cathodes of lithium-ion batteries are allowing opportunities to double or even triple the energy density. However, it is still challenging to develop a cathode, especially with Earth-abundant elements, that enables anionic redox activity for real-world applications, primarily due to limited strategies to intercept the oxygenates from further irreversible oxidation to O₂ gas. Here we report simultaneous iron and oxygen redox activity in a Li-rich anti-fluorite Li₅FeO₄ electrode. During the removal of the first two Li ions, the oxidation potential of O^2- is lowered to approximately 3.5 V versus Li⁺/Li⁰, at which potential the cationic oxidation occurs concurrently. These anionic and cationic redox reactions show high reversibility without any obvious O₂ gas release. Moreover, this study provides an insightful guide to designing high-capacity cathodes with reversible oxygen redox activity by simply introducing oxygen ions that are exclusively coordinated by Li⁺.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	963-971
Number of pages	9
Journal	Nature Energy
Volume	2
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-017-0043-6
State	Published - Dec 1 2017

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This work was supported by the Centre for Electrochemical Energy Science, an Energy Frontier Research Centre funded by the US Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences under award number DE-AC02–06CH11. Use of the Advanced Photon Source and the Centre for Nanoscale Materials, both Office of Science user facilities operated for DOE, Office of Science by Argonne National Laboratory, was supported by the US DOE under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357. The authors acknowledge C.-K. Lin and X. Wang for preparing the Li5FeO4 powders and electrodes. L.L. and M.K.Y.C. thank E. Shirley and J. Vinson for the use of and guidance with the OCEAN code. The computing resources are supported by the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, a DOE Office of Science User Facility supported by the Office of Science of the US Department of Energy under Contract DE-AC02-05CH11231, and Blues, a high-performance computing cluster operated by the Laboratory Computing Resource Center at Argonne National Laboratory.

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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Fuel Technology
Energy Engineering and Power Technology

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Zhan, C., Yao, Z., Lu, J., Ma, L., Maroni, V. A., Li, L., Lee, E., Alp, E. E., Wu, T., Wen, J., Ren, Y., Johnson, C., Thackeray, M. M., Chan, M. K. Y., Wolverton, C., & Amine, K. (2017). Enabling the high capacity of lithium-rich anti-fluorite lithium iron oxide by simultaneous anionic and cationic redox. Nature Energy, 2(12), 963-971. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-017-0043-6

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