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Manganese-based oxide layer with oxygen vacancies to enable fast ion/charge mobility for durable LiNi0.8Co0.1Mn0.1O2 cathode

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The nickel-rich cathodes are always subject to their poor rate performance and cyclic stability. In our paper, a manganese-based oxide layer with oxygen vacancies (MnOx) as a protective coating was proposed to enhance the electrochemical performance of nickel-rich LiNi0.8Co0.1Mn0.1O2 via the sol–gel method. The results demonstrated that MnOx in modified electrode could enable fast ion/charge mobility for superior electrochemical performance. The reversible capacity of MnOx-modified NCM reached 128.2 mAh/g at 5 C, and the cyclic retention of 77.1% was maintained after 200 cycles at 0.5 C. It can be attributed to the MnOx protective layer with oxygen vacancies, which would prevent the side reaction of cathode with electrolytes, maintain the structural stability in long-term cycling and enable the fast ion/charge mobility.

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This work was supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. NS2017030); and the Opening Funding of National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructure (No. M34038). We would like to acknowledge their financial support.

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    Ren-Ping Guo, Ji-Zhou Kong, Peng Xu, Qian-Zhi Wang & Fei Zhou

  2. National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Materials Science and Engineering Department, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China

    Ji-Zhou Kong

  3. College of International Education, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, 210016, China

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Guo, RP., Kong, JZ., Xu, P. et al. Manganese-based oxide layer with oxygen vacancies to enable fast ion/charge mobility for durable LiNi0.8Co0.1Mn0.1O2 cathode. Ionics 27, 5009–5019 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11581-021-04282-9

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