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Plasma-Introduced Oxygen Defects Confined in Li4Ti5O12 Nanosheets for Boosting Lithium-Ion Diffusion

Zhu, J; Chen, J; Xu, H; Sun, S; Xu, Y; Zhou, M; Gao, X; (2019) Plasma-Introduced Oxygen Defects Confined in Li4Ti5O12 Nanosheets for Boosting Lithium-Ion Diffusion. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces , 11 (19) pp. 17384-17392. 10.1021/acsami.9b02102. Green open access

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Abstract

Although Li4Ti5O12 (LTO) is considered as a promising anode material for high-power Li-ion batteries with high safety, the sluggish Li-ion diffusion coefficient restricts its widespread application. In this work, oxygen vacancy was successfully incorporated into LTO by an eco-friendly and cost-effective plasma process. The deficient LTO delivers much higher capacities of 173.4 mAh g–1 at 1C rate after 100 cycles and 140.5 mAh g–1 at 5C after 1000 cycles than those of pristine LTO. Meanwhile, even at a high rate of 20C, it displays an ultrahigh capacity of 133.1 mAh g–1 after 500 cycles with a Coulombic efficiency of 100%. Detailed analysis reveals that the lithium storage mechanisms in the oxygen-deficient LTO, especially at high rate, were dominated by the insertion behavior and dual-phase conversion due to the fast ion-diffusion ability, rather than the widely reported surface capacitance by other approaches. This work highlights that defect generation by plasma in nanomaterials is an effective way to promote ion mobility, especially at high rates, and thus can be extended to other electrode materials for advanced energy-storage applications.

Type: Article
Title: Plasma-Introduced Oxygen Defects Confined in Li4Ti5O12 Nanosheets for Boosting Lithium-Ion Diffusion
Location: United States
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b02102
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.9b02102
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Li4Ti5O12; Oxygen vacancy; Li-ion diffusion coefficient; Plasma; Li-ion battery;
UCL classification: UCL
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Chemistry
URI: https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10074312
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