Spinel insertion materials

There are quite some insertion materials. Here it is classified based on their elements and includes oxides, carbonaceous materials, multiatom anion compounds, inverse spinels, sulfides, nitrides, silicon, and tin alloys [1]. Here the main topic will be related to lithium insertion. For the other kinds of insertion compounds such as sodium, potassium, sulfate, and the like, please refer to other references [2]. 

Besides the glass seal interfaces, interactions have also been reported at the interfaces of the metallic interconnect with electrical contact layers, which are inserted between the cathode and the interconnect to minimize interfacial electrical resistance and facilitate stack assembly. For example, perovskites that are typically used for cathodes and considered as potential contact materials have been reported to react with interconnect alloys. Reaction between manganites- and chromia-forming alloys lead to formation of a manganese-containing spinel interlayer that appears to help minimize the contact ASR [219,220], Sr in the perovskite conductive oxides can react with the chromia scale on alloys to form SrCr04 [219,221],... 

Finally, NMR has also be used to study other spinels materials that do not contain manganese. For example, the intercalation/deintercalation of lithium titanate spinels such as Li4/3+Ji5/304 and Lii.i-Tii.904+a have been investigated. These materials may be used as anode materials in combination with cathodes operating at 4 V (vs Li) to produce cells with potentials of ca. 2.5 V. These materials are either diamagnetic or metallic, and unlike the mangan-ates, only very small differences in shifts are seen for Li in the different sites of the spinel structure. Nonetheless, these shift differences are enough to allow the concentrations of the different sites to be quantified and monitored following insertion of Li or as a function sample preparation method. ... 

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