ABSTRACT
Practical application of lithium- and manganese-rich layered oxide cathodes has been hindered despite their high performance and low cost owing to high gas evolution accompanying capacity loss even in a conservative voltage window. Here, we control the surface structure and primary particle size of lithium- and manganese-rich layered oxide cathodes not only to enhance the electrochemical performance but also to reduce gas evolution. Sulfur-coated Fm3Ì m/R3Ì m double reduced surface layers and Mo doping dramatically reduce gas evolution, which entails the improvement of electrochemical performance. With the optimization, we prove that it is competitive enough to conventional high-nickel cathodes in the aspects of gas evolution as well as electrochemical performance in the conservative voltage window of 2.5-4.4 V. Our findings provide invaluable insights on the improvement of electrochemical performance and gas evolution properties in lithium- and manganese-rich layered oxide cathodes.
ABSTRACT
Intracrystalline defects in metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are known to have crucial roles in dictating their material properties. In this work, computational simulations were used to induce linker vacancy defects in MOF membranes and to investigate their influence on H2/CH4 separation. Linker defective structures were created for the 228 candidate MOFs, and their separation performances were compared between the defective and the nondefective structures. Our results show that the existence of linker vacancy defects can lead to significant performance changes in the MOF membranes, and more importantly, the ranking of the best materials can differ with the defects present. This suggests the importance of taking into account the potential for defects when it comes to materials design for various membrane separation applications.
