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Suppressing capacity fading and voltage decay of Ni-rich cathode material by dual-ion doping for lithium-ion batteries

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The Ni-rich cathodes are considered as the next generation candidate cathode material of lithium-ion batteries due to the high-energy–density and environmentally friendly. Unfortunately, the cathodes are up against severe structure instability at the repeated charge/discharge process, resulting in the attenuation of voltage and capacity. Herein, we proposed a novel strategy with uniform Al and Ti cations co-doping of LiNi0.8Co0.1Mn0.1O2 cathode. The modification strategy not only stabilizes the vulnerable layered structure but also mitigate voltage/capacity attenuation at different cutoff voltages. As a result, the modified cathode with trace content of Al and Ti cations co-doping can broaden the lithium ions diffusion channels, mitigate the structural collapse, and unfavorable phase transformation to some extent. Specifically, the modified sample exhibits remarkable enhanced electrochemical performance in discharge capacity and voltage retention of 76.75%, 98.78% at 1 C after 200 cycles. Even though at elevated voltage, the modified sample shows improved cycle life with a capacity retention of 70.93% after 200 cycles.

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Acknowledgements

This work was funded by the project from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21878195, 21805198), the Distinguished Young Foundation of Sichuan Province (20JCQN0197), and 2019 Strategic cooperation project between Sichuan University and Luzhou Municipal People's Government (No. 2019CDLZ-06).

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    Hao Liu, Ruikai Yang, Wen Yang, Changjiang Bai, Zhenguo Wu & Xiaodong Guo

  2. Institute of Chemistry, Humboldt University of Berlin, Brook-Taylor-Str. 2, 12489, Berlin, Germany

    Yong-Chun Li

  3. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Henan Normal University, Henan, China

    Gongke Wang

  4. The Key Laboratory of Life-Organic Analysis, Key Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Intermediates and Analysis of Natural Medicine, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Qufu Normal University, Qufu, 273165, Shandong, China

    Yuxia Liu

  5. College of Materials and Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, 610059, People’s Republic of China

    Wei Xiang

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Liu, H., Yang, R., Yang, W. et al. Suppressing capacity fading and voltage decay of Ni-rich cathode material by dual-ion doping for lithium-ion batteries. J Mater Sci 56, 2347–2359 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-020-05246-6

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