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Improvement of electrochemical performance of LiNi0.8Co0.1Mn0.1O2 cathode material via Li2.09W0.9Nb0.1O4 Li-ion conductive coating layer

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Recently, niobium tungsten oxide has garnered considerable attention owing to its excellent Li-ion diffusion rate and prominent structural stability during charge–discharge cycles. Here, a cathode material (LiNi0.8Co0.1Mn0.1O2, NCM811) for Li-ion batteries is successfully coated with Li-ion conductive Li2.09W0.9Nb0.1O4 using a simple wet-chemical coating method followed by high-temperature sintering. A physicochemical phase analysis reveals that a 4–5-nm-thick coating with a Li2.09W0.9Nb0.1O4 crystal structure is evenly distributed on the surface of the cathode particles. Among cathodes coated with different amounts of material, the one coated with 0.5 wt% Li2.09W0.9Nb0.1O4 yielded the best overall performance, with a high discharge capacity of 136.8 mAh g−1 at 10 C and long-term cycling stability with a capacity retention of 91.7% after 100 cycles at 1 C. This excellent electrochemical performance can be attributed to the coating’s ability to prevent the impedance from increasing and the Li-ion diffusion coefficient from decaying. In addition, it protects the cathode from side reactions and stabilizes the structure during cycling.

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This work was supported by the Science and Technology Service Network Plan of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. KFJ-STS-ZDTP-040), the Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. QYZDJ-SSW-JSC021), and the Key Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. ZDRW-ZS-2018-1).

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    Xinghan Zhang, Fei Ma, Guangye Wei & Jingkui Qu

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Zhang, X., Ma, F., Wei, G. et al. Improvement of electrochemical performance of LiNi0.8Co0.1Mn0.1O2 cathode material via Li2.09W0.9Nb0.1O4 Li-ion conductive coating layer. J Solid State Electrochem 24, 2301–2313 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10008-020-04742-8

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