Lithium nickel manganese cobalt oxide

N. Omar, M. Daowd, G. Mulder, J.M. Timmermans, P. Van den Bossche, J. Van Mierlo, S. Pauwels, Assessment of Performance of Lithium Iron Phosphate Oxide, Nickel Manganese Cobalt Oxide and nickel cobalt aluminum oxide Based cells for Using in Plug-In Battery Electric, VPPC International Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference, Chicago (IL), USA, 2011. 

There are a number of different hthium-ion chemistries now available that involve different positive and negative active materials. Traditionally, the positive active material consisted of hthium cobalt oxide, with some smaU market share going to lithium manganese oxide. Now, cells with positive active materials consisting of lithium nickel cobalt oxide, hthium nickel manganese cobalt oxide, or hthium iron phosphate are available. For the negative, carbons have traditionaUy been used, but... 

Fig. 2.10 Challenges in electrode materials for Li-ion batteries. LFP lithium iron phosphates. NMC nickel-manganese-cobalt oxide. NCA nickel-cobalt-aluminum oxide. LMS lithium-manganese spinel. Ranking 1 = worst, 5 = best...

Conditioning of the manganese oxide suspension with each cation was conducted in a thermostatted cell (25° 0.05°C.) described previously (13). Analyses of residual lithium, potassium, sodium, calcium, and barium were obtained by standard flame photometry techniques on a Beckman DU-2 spectrophotometer with flame attachment. Analyses of copper, nickel, and cobalt were conducted on a Sargent Model XR recording polarograph. Samples for analysis were removed upon equilibration of the system, the solid centrifuged off and analytical concentrations determined from calibration curves. In contrast to Morgan and Stumm (10) who report fairly rapid equilibration, final attainment of equilibrium at constant pH, for example, upon addition of metal ions was often very slow, in some cases of the order of several hours. 

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There have been many attempts to improve both cycle life and safety of LiCoO using Co-Ni, Mn-Co, and mixed oxides. Recently, the combmadon of manganese, cobalt, ad nickel as LiMn, Co, Ni, Oj mixed oxide (referred to as LSM) has attracted a great deal of interest from researchers in cathode materials for lithium and L1B, from the viewpoints of reduced cobalt consumption and increased capacity. 

Unlike cobalt and nickel, manganese does not form a stable, pure LiMn02 phase and forms the spinel structure instead, named after the mineral of spinel (Table 1.3) with the composition of Lio.5Mn02, conunonly expressed as LiMn204. Manganese-based cathode materials are attractive mainly due to their low cost compared to cobalt and nickel. A wide variety of the hthiated manganese oxides with multiple structures and compositions (Li Mn 0 ratios) exist and many of these compounds can reversibly intercalate lithium, but amongst these materials, spinel materials and the layered derivatives are the most mature, to the point of commercial availability. Spinel-stractured materials will be discussed separately in the next part of this chapter. 

Complex compounds of lithium and heavy metal oxides as nickel oxide and cobalt oxide are working more effectively than the lithium/manganese oxide spinel which incorporates lithium ions into its tube like voids whereas the former with their layered structure take up and release lithium ions more easily. 

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