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Using the first-principles method based on the density functional theory, the oxygen vacancy formations in the lithium-rich manganese-based ternary cathode material Li1.167Ni0.167Co0.167Mn0.5O2 are calculated. The changes of oxygen vacancy formation energy with temperature, oxygen partial pressure and point defects in the material are discussed, meanwhile, the effect of oxygen vacancies on the capacity is also discussed. The calculation results show that the increase of temperature and the decrease of oxygen partial pressure can lead the formation energy of an oxygen vacancy to decline. For the charged oxygen vacancies (
$ {\mathrm{V}}_{\mathrm{O}}^{+1} $ ,$ {\mathrm{V}}_{\mathrm{O}}^{+2} $ ), the formation energy of an O-vacancy increases with Fermi level increasing. It is also found that the presence of an oxygen vacancy will trigger off a very local charge density redistributions, mainly around the neighboring Mn ions next to the O-vacancy. Furthermore, the effects of point defects, including cation vacancies and substitutional defects in the vicinity of the O-vacancy, on the formation energy of O-vacancy are also calculated. The results show that the presence of Mn vacancy near the O-vacancy is beneficial to the formation of the O-vacancy. In addition, the formation of oxygen vacancy is suppressed when the Mn atoms near the O-vacancy are substituted by the Mo or Fe atoms.-
Keywords:
- Li-rich Mn-based ternary materials /
- oxygen vacancy /
- defect formation /
- first-principles calculations
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图 1 (a) Li1.167Ni0.167Co0.167Mn0.5O2的晶体结构(其中NiO6, CoO6和MnO6八面体分别标识为灰色、蓝色和紫色, 氧原子为红色, 锂离子为绿色); (b) 氧与周围配位原子的4种示意图
Figure 1. (a) Crystal structure of Li1.167Ni0.167Co0.167Mn0.5O2 (NiO6, CoO6 and MnO6 octahedra are marked by gray, blue and purple, respectively; oxygen and lithium ions are denoted by red and green balls, respectively); (b) diagram of the four coordination pattern of oxygen and surrounding atoms.
图 2 Li1.167Ni0.167Co0.167Mn0.5O2 材料的PDOS图, 虚线表示EF = 0
Figure 2. PDOS for Li1.167Ni0.167Co0.167Mn0.5O2 material. The dotted line represents EF = 0.
图 3 T = 0—1000 K, 不同带电氧空位的形成能随
$ {E}_{\mathrm{F}} $ 的变化Figure 3. Formation energies of oxygen vacancies in different charge states as a function of
$ {E}_{\mathrm{F}} $ at T = 0–1000 K.
图 4 P = 0.2 bar, 费米能级不同时的氧空位形成能随温度的变化 (a)
$ {E}_{\mathrm{F}}=0 $ ; (b)$ {E}_{\mathrm{F}}={E}_{\mathrm{g}\mathrm{a}\mathrm{p}} $ .Figure 4. Formation energies of an oxygen vacancy with different Fermi level as a function of temperature at P = 0.2 bar: (a)
$ {E}_{\mathrm{F}}=0 $ ; (b)$ {E}_{\mathrm{F}}={E}_{\mathrm{g}\mathrm{a}\mathrm{p}} $ 
图 5
${E}_{\mathrm{F}}={E}_{\mathrm{gap}}=1.10 $ eV, 温度不同时氧空位形成能随氧分压的变化 (a) T = 300 K; (b) T = 1000 KFigure 5. Formation energies of an oxygen vacancy as a function of oxygen partial pressure at different temperatures with
${E}_{\mathrm{F}}={E}_{\mathrm{gap}}=1.10 {\rm{eV}}$ : (a) T = 300 K; (b) T = 1000 K.
图 6
$ {E}_{\mathrm{F}}=0 $ , 中性氧空位$ {\mathrm{V}}_{\mathrm{O}}^{0} $ 的形成能随温度和氧分压的变化Figure 6. Formation energies of a neutral oxygen vacancy
$ {\mathrm{V}}_{\mathrm{O}}^{0} $ as a function of both the temperature and oxygen partial pressure with$ {E}_{\mathrm{F}}=0 $ .
图 7 Li1.167Ni0.167Co0.167Mn0.5O2的二维差分电荷密度 (a) 完整晶体, (b) 有氧空位(红色线表示该区域有电荷聚集, 而蓝色线表示该区域有电荷的移出); Li1.167Ni0.167Co0.167Mn0.5O2的三维差分电荷密度 (c) 完整晶体, (d) 有氧空位
Figure 7. 2D charge density plots of Li1.167Ni0.167Co0.167Mn0.5O2: (a) Pristine; (b) with oxygen vacancy (The solid and dashed lines represent the accumulation and depletion of charges relative to the independent atoms, respectively); 3D charge density plots of Li1.167Ni0.167Co0.167Mn0.5O2: (c) pristine; (d) with oxygen vacancy.
图 8 氧空位附近Mn-A 3d (a)—(c)和Mn-B 3d (d)—(f) 电子在不同电荷态下的PDOS
Figure 8. PDOS of Mn-A 3d (a)–(c) and Mn-B 3d (d)–(f) electrons in different charge states near the oxygen vacancies.
图 9 氧空位与其邻近点缺陷的相互作用能, 缺陷包括阳离子空位
$ {\mathrm{V}}_{\mathrm{M}\mathrm{n}} $ 以及氧空位邻近的Mn被Fe和Mo替位Figure 9. Interaction energies of an oxygen vacancy and its neighboring point defects, including vacancies
$ {\mathrm{V}}_{\mathrm{M}\mathrm{n}} $ and substitutional FeMn, MoMn point defects, respectively.表 1 Li1.167Ni0.167Co0.167Mn0.5O2材料中不同费米能级的3种带电荷态氧空位的形成能
Table 1. The calculated formation energies of non-equivalent oxygen vacancies at different charge states in the bulk Li1.167Ni0.167Co0.167Mn0.5O2 at different Fermi level.
不同配位环境的氧空位形成能/eV VO-4Li2Mn VO-4LiCoMn VO-3LiNiCoMn VO-3LiNi2Mn $ {\mathrm{V}}_{\mathrm{O}}^{0} $ 2.30 2.80 3.12 3.20 EF = 0 $ {\mathrm{V}}_{\mathrm{O}}^{+1} $ –1.30 –1.13 –0.95 –0.66 $ {\mathrm{V}}_{\mathrm{O}}^{+2} $ –5.02 –4.90 –4.42 –4.40 EF = Egap $ {\mathrm{V}}_{\mathrm{O}}^{0} $ 2.30 2.80 3.12 3.20 $ {\mathrm{V}}_{\mathrm{O}}^{+1} $ –0.20 –0.03 0.15 0.44 $ {\mathrm{V}}_{\mathrm{O}}^{+2} $ –2.82 –2.70 –2.22 –2.20 
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[1] Dunn B, Kamath H, Tarascon J M 2011 Science 334 928
Google Scholar
[2] Goodenough J B, Kim Y 2010 Chem. Mater. 22 587
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[3] Etacheri V, Marom R, Elazari R, Salitra G, Aurbach D 2011 Energy Environ. Sci. 4 3243
Google Scholar
[4] Nitta N, Wu F, Lee J T, Yushin G 2015 Mater. Today 18 252
Google Scholar
[5] Mizushima K, Jones P, Wiseman P, Goodenough J B 1981 Solid State Ionics 3 171
[6] Wang H, Jang Y I, Huang B Y, Sadoway D R, Chiang Y M 1999 J. Electrochem. Soc. 146 473
Google Scholar
[7] Huang H, Yin S C, Nazar L F 2001 Electrochem. Solid. St. 4 A170
Google Scholar
[8] Ouyang C Y, Shi S Q, Wang Z X, Huang X J, Chen L Q 2004 Phys. Rev. B 69 104303
Google Scholar
[9] Yuan L X, Wang Z H, Zhang W X, Hu X L, Chen J T, Huang Y H, Goodenough J B 2011 Energy Environ. Sci. 4 269
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[10] Liu J L, Hou M Y, Yi J, Guo S S, Wang C X, Xia Y Y 2014 Energy Environ. Sci. 7 705
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[11] Zuo W H, Luo M Z, Liu X S, Wu J, Liu H D, Li J, Winter M, Fu R Q, Yang W L, Yang Y 2020 Energy Environ. Sci. 13 4450
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[12] Koga H, Croguennec L, Mannessiez P, M Ménétrier, Delmas C 2012 J. Phys. Chem. C. 116 13497
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[13] He Z J, Wang Z X, Huang Z M, Chen H, Li X H, Guo H J 2015 J. Mater. Chem. A. 3 16817
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[16] Qiu B, Zhang M H, Wu L J, Wang J, Xia Y G, Qian D N 2016 Nat. Commun. 7 1
[17] Zhang B, Wang L, Bai F, Xiao P, Zhang B, Chen X, Sun Jie, Yang W S 2019 Dalton. T. 48 3209
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[18] Kresse G, Furthmuller J 1996 Phys. Rev. B 54 11169
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