Boosting lithium battery capacity with disordered materials – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
LBNL scientists have made a discovery that helps them discover new disordered materials that could increase lithium battery capacity.
“Discovering new disordered materials has been mostly driven by trial-and-error, and by relying on human intuition,” explains Alexander Urban, lead author of the paper ‘The electronic structure origin of cation disorder in transition metal-oxides. “Now we have for the first time identified a simple design criterion to predict novel disordered compositions. The new understanding establishes a relationship between the chemical species, local distortions of the crystal structure, and the tendency to form disordered phases.”