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The CeF4-coated spinel LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4 with improved electrochemical performance for 5 V lithium-ion batteries

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The LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4 (LNMO) is an ideal cathode material of lithium-ion battery due to its high operating voltage. However, the corrosion of the electrolyte at high voltage is also a key issue for the LNMO cathode. In current work, the CeF4 were used to coat LNMO pristine via a simple calcining synthesis process. The microstructure and morphology of the pristine and CeF4-coated samples were studied by XRD, FTIR, XPS SEM, and TEM. The microstructure and morphology analysis show that CeF4 successfully coats on the surface of LNMO and forms a uniform coating layer. The CeF4 layers have little effect on the crystal structure of the LNMO and surface characters keep stable. The electrochemical performance study revealed that the CeF4-coated samples owned higher rate capacity and galvanostatic change–discharge capacity at 5C because the CeF4 layer was benefit to Li+ diffusion that decrease the polarization resistance. Moreover, the CeF4-3 has best cycling performance and rate capacity among all samples. After 100 charge–discharge cycles, the specific discharge capacity of CeF4-3 is still maintained 120 mAh/g with 97.6% capacity retention, while the pristine LNMO is only 97 mAh/g with 94.0% capacity retention. Therefore, CeF4 can be regarded as a promising anode modification material to improve the electrochemical performance.

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Authors gratefully acknowledge financial support from Natural Science Foundation of China (52063005), Science and Technology Project of Guizhou (2016/5667) and (2021488), Science and Technology Foundation of Guizhou Province (2019/5635).

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  1. Department of Polymer Materials and Engineering, College of Materials and Metallurgy, Guizhou University, Guiyang, 550025, China

    Tianci Chen & Jianbing Guo

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    Hongming Wu & Ying Zhou

  3. School of Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, Guizhou Institute of Technology, Guiyang, 550003, China

    Dengfeng Zhou

  4. College of Chemistry and Materials Engineering, Guiyang University, Guiyang, 550005, China

    Wei Yan

  5. Guizhou Qiancai S&T Development Co., Ltd., Guiyang, 550003, China

    Jiling Song & Jianbing Guo

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TC: Conducting research and investigation process, Data curation, Writing—original draft, writing-reviewing and editing. HW: Experimental ideas and scheme design, provision of study materials, reagents and materials. DZ: Supervision. YZ: Supervision WY: Supervision JS: Supervision JG: Supervision, funding acquisition.

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Chen, T., Wu, H., Zhou, D. et al. The CeF4-coated spinel LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4 with improved electrochemical performance for 5 V lithium-ion batteries. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 33, 11712–11724 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-022-08137-5

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