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Combustion combined with ball milling to produce nanoscale La2O3 coated on LiMn2O4 for optimized Li-ion storage performance at high temperature

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In this study, La2O3 is synthesized by combustion method and then subjected to ultrafine ball milling to obtain La2O3 nanoparticles. In neopentyl glycol, La2O3 nanoparticles are coated on the surface of spinel LiMn2O4 ultimately obtaining La2O3 coating contents of 1.5, 3, 4.5, and 6 wt%. XRD characterization reveals that the nano La2O3 exhibits a favorable crystalline intensity, without impurities and the crystalline peak of La2O3 can be observed when the coating content is of up to 6 wt%. Successful deposition of a thin layer of La2O3 on the LiMn2O4 surface is confirmed by scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, X-ray spectrum elemental plane scanning, and line scanning. Furthermore, inductively coupled plasma emission spectrography and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy analyses show that the nano-La2O3 coating significantly relieves the dissolution of Mn in LiMn2O4 materials, and also improves the electro-conductivity. The electrochemical performances of the coated LiMn2O4 samples are also investigated in this work. Compared with the pristine LiMn2O4, the LiMn2O4 coated with 3 wt% La2O3 exhibits a higher rate capability and better reversibility, exhibiting 103.5 and 90.6 mAh g−1 at 5 and 10 °C, respectively. After 100 cycles at 60 and 1 °C, the 3 wt% nano-La2O3-coated sample still exhibits a high-capacity retention of 91.68%.

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Financial support from National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51604132, 51601081, and 51764029) and Provincial Natural Science Foundation of Yunnan (No.2017FB085) are gratefully acknowledged.

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  1. National and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Lithium-ion Batteries and Materials Preparation Technology, Key Laboratory of Advanced Battery Materials of Yunnan Province, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, 650093, China

    Yannan Zhang, Peng Dong, Qi Meng, Xue Li & Yingjie Zhang

  2. Yunnan Provincial Energy Research Institute Co., LTD., Kunming, 650093, China

    Mingyu Zhang

  3. Nanomaterials and Energy Lab, Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, N6A 5B9, Canada

    Xueliang Sun

  4. National Engineering Research Center of Waste Resource Recovery, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, 650093, China

    Xiaohua Yu

  5. Key Laboratory of Mesoscale Severe Weather/Ministry of Education, and School of Atmospheric Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China

    Jinjie Song

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Zhang, Y., Dong, P., Zhang, M. et al. Combustion combined with ball milling to produce nanoscale La2O3 coated on LiMn2O4 for optimized Li-ion storage performance at high temperature. J Appl Electrochem 48, 135–145 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10800-017-1136-4

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