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Progress and Understanding on Catalysts with Well-Defined Interface for Boosting CO
Conversion

Binran Zhao, Yiyi Zhao, Peng Liu, Yulong Men, Xinyu Meng and Yunxiang Pan*

In the cover picture, we adapt the ideal from "Journey to the West," one of Chinese four literary classics. The ancient Chinese mythical character, Monkey King, holds a treasure in his hand, which represents the catalysts with well-defined interface. CO2 is blown out from the mouth of Monkey King, then goes through the catalyst interface, and finally is converted into high value-added chemicals like CH4, CH3OH and CO. This well describes the focus of our paper titled “Progress and Understanding on Catalysts with Well-defined Interface for Boosting CO2 Conversion”.
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Dual-Site Doping to Enhance Oxygen Redox and Structural Stability of Li-Rich Layered Oxides

Zuhao Zhang, Xiaoyan Xie, Huixian Xie, Xiaokai Ding, Jiaxiang Cui, Chenyu Liu*, Dong Luo* and Zhan Lin

Chin. J. Struct. Chem. 2022, 41, 2204061-2204067  DOI: 10.14102/j.cnki.0254-5861.2022-0066

April 8, 2022

lithium-ion battery, Li-rich layered oxides, doping, Li2MnO3

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Cobalt-free Li-rich layered oxides (LLOs) such as Li1.2Mn0.6Ni0.2O2 have attracted extensive attention owing to their high specific capacity and low cost. Nonetheless, numerous problems such as continuous voltage fading and capacity decay have become stumbling blocks in its commercial application. In this study, we propose an effective dual-site doping strategy by choosing Mo as the cation and F as the anion to enhance the capacity and cycling performance. The research demonstrates that the cycling stability of LLOs enhances with the doping ratio of Mo, and their capacity increases with the doping ratio of F. It is because Mo as a pillar enhances the structural stability and F doping is conducive to the activation of Li2MnO3. What’s more, dual-site doping also promotes the diffusion of Li+ and reduces the internal resistance of the electrode. Due to these improvements, the 5F3M sample still maintains a discharge capacity of 190.98 mAh g-1 after 100 cycles at 200 mA g-1, which is much higher than 165.29 mAh g-1 of the Pristine sample. This discovery provides a new way to develop advanced layered oxide cathodes for both Na- and Li-ion batteries.


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