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Development of Li(Ni1/3Mn1/3Co1/3-x Na x )O2 cathode materials by synthesizing with glycine nitrate combustion technique for Li-ion rechargeable batteries

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Glycine nitrate combustion technique was investigated for synthesizing Li(Ni1/3Mn1/3Co1/3-x Na x )O2, x = 0–0.11 based transition metal oxide cathode materials for the rechargeable Li-ion battery (LIB) under this study. X-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscopy analysis showed that the synthesized powder samples were well crystalline rather spherical secondary particles. These secondary particles were composed of softly agglomerated nano-scale primary particles. The room temperature electrical conductivity of these Na-doped materials was significantly higher than that of the base material (2.60 × 10−7 S/cm). Among them, the x = 0.04 material reported the highest electrical conductivity of 1.02 × 10−03 S cm−1. The half-cell assembled with cathode fabricated from Li(Ni1/3Mn1/3Co1/3)O2 base material showed an initial discharge capacity of 187 mA h−1 g−1 with 25 mA h−1 g−1 irreversible capacity loss and 88.47% columbic efficiency at C/5 rate with a cut-off voltage of 2.5–4.6 V at 25 °C. The electrochemical behavior of the x = 0.04 cathode showed a comparable initial discharge capacity as of the base material but with improved capacity retention.

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Financial assistance by the Human Resources Development (HRD) program of the Higher Education for Twenty First Century (HETC) project of Ministry of Higher Education, Sri Lanka is acknowledged.

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    T. H. N. G. Amaraweera, Athula Wijayasinghe & M. A. K. L. Dissanayake

  2. Department of Science and Technology, Uva Wellassa University, Badulla, Sri Lanka

    T. H. N. G. Amaraweera

  3. Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, Götebory, Sweden

    B.-E. Mellander

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Amaraweera, T.H.N.G., Wijayasinghe, A., Mellander, BE. et al. Development of Li(Ni1/3Mn1/3Co1/3-x Na x )O2 cathode materials by synthesizing with glycine nitrate combustion technique for Li-ion rechargeable batteries. Ionics 23, 3001–3011 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11581-017-2098-6

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