Discharging of Ramsdellite MnO2 Cathode in a Lithium-Ion Battery
© 2024 The Authors. Published by American Chemical Society.
Veröffentlicht in: | Chemistry of materials : a publication of the American Chemical Society. - 1998. - 36(2024), 18 vom: 24. Sept., Seite 8737-8752 |
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Sprache: | English |
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Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Chemistry of materials : a publication of the American Chemical Society |
Schlagworte: | Journal Article |
Zusammenfassung: | © 2024 The Authors. Published by American Chemical Society. We report an application of our unbiased Monte Carlo approach to investigate thermodynamic and electrochemical properties of lithiated manganese oxide in the ramsdellite phase (R-MnO2) to uncover the mechanism of lithium intercalation and understand charging/discharging of R-MnO2 as a cathode material in lithium-ion batteries. The lithium intercalation reaction was computationally explored by modeling thermodynamically significant distributions of lithium and reduced manganese in the R-MnO2 framework for a realistic range of lithium molar fractions 0 < x < 1 in Li x MnO2. We employed interatomic potentials and analyzed the thermodynamics of the resultant grand canonical ensemble. We found ordered or semiordered phases at x = 0.5 and 1.0 in Li x MnO2, verified by configurational entropy changes and simulated X-ray diffraction patterns of partially lithiated R-MnO2. The radial distribution functions show the preference of lithium for homogeneous distributions across the one-dimensional 2 × 1 ramsdellite channels accompanied by alternating reduced/oxidized manganese ions. The occupation of the interstitial sites in the channels is correlated with the calculated voltage profile, showing a sharp voltage drop at x = 0.5, which is explained by the energy penalty of shifting lithium ions from stable tetrahedral to unstable octahedral sites. To facilitate this work, our in-house software, Knowledge Led Master Code (KLMC) was extended to support massive parallelism on high-performance computers |
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Beschreibung: | Date Revised 01.10.2024 published: Electronic-eCollection Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE |
ISSN: | 0897-4756 |
DOI: | 10.1021/acs.chemmater.4c01417 |