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Enhanced rate capability and cycling stability of conductive oxide-coated LiNi0.8Co0.1Mn0.1O2 for lithium-ion batteries

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High-nickel cathode material has high specific capacity, but the rapid capacity decay restricts its application. Hereby, three conductive oxides including nano-antimony tin oxide (Sb2SnO5, ATO), zinc stannate (Zn2SnO4, ZTO), and antimony-doped zinc stannate (Sb-doped ZTO, AZTO) with high mobility and low resistivity were used as coating materials separately to improve the rate capability and cycling stability of LiNi0.8Co0.1Mn0.1O2 (NCM811). The conductive oxide was uniformly coated on the surface of NCM811 with the thickness of about 4 nm. The AZTO-coated NCM811 shows the superior rate capability with the initial discharge capacities of 201.35, 197.86, 190.80, and 182.31 mAh g−1 at 0.1, 0.2, 0.5, and 1 C, respectively. The ZTO-coated NCM811 has the best cycling stability with the capacity retention of 85.93% after 100 cycles, while that of the pristine NCM811 is 66.75%. The conductive oxides improve the electronic/ionic conductivity and block the reaction between cathode material and electrolyte, reduce the electrochemical impedance and the side reaction, and further increase the rate capability and the reversibility of the materials.

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This work was supported by the Scientific Research Fund of Changsha Science and Technology Bureau, Hunan, China (grant number kh2003021); the Scientific Research Foundation of Hunan Provincial Education Department, China (grant number 19B010); the National Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province, China (grant number 2020JJ4620); and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant numbers 51604042 and 51874048).

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    Min-dan Zhu, Hua-li Zhu, Jin-mei Guo, Chao-cao Lu & Yan Ji

  2. College of Energy and Power Engineering, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha, 410114, China

    Hua-li Zhu

  3. Basf Shanshan Battery Materials (Ningxiang) Co., Ltd, Changsha, 410605, China

    Jin Hu & Xin-xin Tan

  4. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha, 410114, China

    Zhao-yong Chen

  5. Institute of New Energy and Power Battery, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha, 410114, China

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Zhu, Md., Zhu, Hl., Guo, Jm. et al. Enhanced rate capability and cycling stability of conductive oxide-coated LiNi0.8Co0.1Mn0.1O2 for lithium-ion batteries. Ionics 29, 1711–1720 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11581-023-04945-9

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