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Peng J, Peng H, Shi CG, Huang L, Sun SG. Surface Passivation of LiCoO 2 by Solid Electrolyte Nanoshell for High Interfacial Stability and Conductivity. CHEMSUSCHEM 2023; 16:e202300715. [PMID: 37661195 DOI: 10.1002/cssc.202300715] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2023] [Revised: 08/29/2023] [Accepted: 09/01/2023] [Indexed: 09/05/2023]
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The practical application of lithium cobalt oxide (LiCoO2 ) cathodes at high voltages is hindered by the instability of the surface structure and side reactions with the electrolyte. Herein, we prepared a multifunctional hierarchical core@double-shell structured LiCoO2 (MS-LCO) cathode material using a scalable sol-gel method. The MS-LCO cathode material comprised an outer shell with fast lithium-ion conductivity, a La/Zr co-doped inner shell, and a bulk LiCoO2 core. The outermost shell prevented direct contact between the electrolyte and LiCoO2 core, which alleviated the electrolyte decomposition and loss of active cobalt, while the La/Zr co-doped shell improved the structural stability at higher voltages in a half-cell with a liquid electrolyte. The MS-LCO cathode exhibited a stable capacity of 163.1 mAh g-1 after 500 cycles at 0.5 C, and a high specific capacity of 166.8 mAh g-1 at 2 C. In addition, a solid lithium battery with the surface-passivated MS-LCO cathode and a polyethylene oxide (PEO)-based inorganic/organic composite electrolyte retained 85.8 % of its initial discharge capacity after 150 cycles at a charging cutoff voltage of 4.3 V. Thus, the introduction of a surface-passivating shell can effectively suppress the decomposition of PEO caused by highly reactive oxygen species in LiCoO2 at high voltages.
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- Jun Peng
- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, P. R. China
- Tianmu Lake Institute of Advanced Energy Storage Technologies, China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, P. R. China
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Maleki F, Pacchioni G. Probing the nature of Lewis acid sites on oxide surfaces with 31P(CH 3) 3 NMR: a theoretical analysis. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:19773-19782. [PMID: 35972443 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp03306b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The characterization of catalytic oxide surfaces is often done by studying the properties of adsorbed probe molecules. The 31P NMR chemical shift of adsorbed trimethylphosphine, P(CH3)3 or TMP, has been used to identify the presence of different facets in oxide nanocrystals and to study the acid-base properties of the adsorption sites. The NMR studies are often complemented by DFT calculations to provide additional information on TMP adsorption mode, bond strength, etc. So far, however, no systematic study has been undertaken in order to compare on the same footing the chemical shifts and the adsorption properties of TMP on different oxide surfaces. In this work we report the results of DFT+D (D = dispersion) calculations on the adsorption of TMP on the following oxide surfaces: anatase TiO2(101) and (001), rutile TiO2(110), tetragonal ZrO2(101), stepped ZrO2(134) and (145) surfaces, rutile SnO2(110), (101) and (100), wurtzite ZnO(101̄0), and cubic CeO2(111) and (110). Beside the stoichiometric surfaces, also reduced oxides have been considered creating O vacancies in various sites. TMP has been adsorbed on top of variously coordinated Lewis acid cation sites, with the aim to identify, also with the support of machine learning algorithms, trends or patterns that can help to correlate the 31P chemical shift with physico-chemical properties of the oxide surfaces such as adsorption energy, Bader charges, cation-P distance, work function, etc. Some simple correlation can be found within the same oxide between the 31P chemical shift and the adsorption energy, while when the full set of data is considered the only correlation found is with the net charge on the TMP molecule, a descriptor of the acid strength of the adsorption site.
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- Farahnaz Maleki
- Dipartimento di Scienza dei Materiali, Università di Milano-Bicocca, via R. Cozzi 55, 20125 Milano, Italy.
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- Dipartimento di Scienza dei Materiali, Università di Milano-Bicocca, via R. Cozzi 55, 20125 Milano, Italy.
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Wu C, Lin L, Liu J, Zhang J, Zhang F, Zhou T, Rui N, Yao S, Deng Y, Yang F, Xu W, Luo J, Zhao Y, Yan B, Wen XD, Rodriguez JA, Ma D. Inverse ZrO 2/Cu as a highly efficient methanol synthesis catalyst from CO 2 hydrogenation. Nat Commun 2020; 11:5767. [PMID: 33188189 PMCID: PMC7666171 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19634-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2020] [Accepted: 10/16/2020] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Enhancing the intrinsic activity and space time yield of Cu based heterogeneous methanol synthesis catalysts through CO2 hydrogenation is one of the major topics in CO2 conversion into value-added liquid fuels and chemicals. Here we report inverse ZrO2/Cu catalysts with a tunable Zr/Cu ratio have been prepared via an oxalate co-precipitation method, showing excellent performance for CO2 hydrogenation to methanol. Under optimal condition, the catalyst composed by 10% of ZrO2 supported over 90% of Cu exhibits the highest mass-specific methanol formation rate of 524 gMeOHkgcat−1h−1 at 220 °C, 3.3 times higher than the activity of traditional Cu/ZrO2 catalysts (159 gMeOHkgcat−1h−1). In situ XRD-PDF, XAFS and AP-XPS structural studies reveal that the inverse ZrO2/Cu catalysts are composed of islands of partially reduced 1–2 nm amorphous ZrO2 supported over metallic Cu particles. The ZrO2 islands are highly active for the CO2 activation. Meanwhile, an intermediate of formate adsorbed on the Cu at 1350 cm−1 is discovered by the in situ DRIFTS. This formate intermediate exhibits fast hydrogenation conversion to methoxy. The activation of CO2 and hydrogenation of all the surface oxygenate intermediates are significantly accelerated over the inverse ZrO2/Cu configuration, accounting for the excellent methanol formation activity observed. Enhancing the intrinsic activity and space time yield of Cu based heterogeneous methanol synthesis catalysts is one of the major topics in CO2 hydrogenation. Here the authors develop a highly active inverse catalyst composed of fine ZrO2 islands dispersed on metallic Cu nanoparticles.
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- Congyi Wu
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering and College of Engineering and BIC-ESAT Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering and College of Engineering and BIC-ESAT Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China. .,Chemistry Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, 11973, USA. .,Institute of Industrial Catalysis, State Key Laboratory of Green Chemistry Synthesis Technology, College of Chemical Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, 310032, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Coal Conversion, Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Taiyuan, China.,National Energy Centre for Coal to Liquids, Synfuels China Co. Ltd, Beijing, China.,Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Materials Genome Engineering, Industry-University Cooperation Base between Beijing Information S&T University and Synfuels China Co. Ltd, Beijing, China
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China
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- Materials Science and Chemical Engineering Department, State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York, NY, 11794, United States
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- Center for Electron Microscopy, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin, 300384, China
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- Chemistry Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, 11973, USA
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- Chemistry Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, 11973, USA
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering and College of Engineering and BIC-ESAT Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering and College of Engineering and BIC-ESAT Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
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- X-ray Science Division, Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Lemont, IL, 60439, USA
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- Center for Electron Microscopy, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin, 300384, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering and College of Engineering and BIC-ESAT Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Coal Conversion, Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Taiyuan, China. .,National Energy Centre for Coal to Liquids, Synfuels China Co. Ltd, Beijing, China. .,Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Materials Genome Engineering, Industry-University Cooperation Base between Beijing Information S&T University and Synfuels China Co. Ltd, Beijing, China.
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- Chemistry Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, 11973, USA. .,Materials Science and Chemical Engineering Department, State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York, NY, 11794, United States.
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering and College of Engineering and BIC-ESAT Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China.
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Cornil D, Rivolta N, Mercier V, Wiame H, Beljonne D, Cornil J. Enhanced Adhesion Energy at Oxide/Ag Interfaces for Low-Emissivity Glasses: Theoretical Insight into Doping and Vacancy Effects. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2020; 12:40838-40849. [PMID: 32804476 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c07579] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Low-emissivity glasses rely on multistacked architectures with a thin silver layer sandwiched between oxide layers. The mechanical stability of the silver/oxide interfaces is a critical parameter that must be maximized. Here, we demonstrate by means of quantum-chemical calculations that a low work of adhesion at interfaces can be significantly increased via doping and by introducing vacancies in the oxide layer. For the sake of illustration, we focus on the ZrO2(111)/Ag(111) interface exhibiting a poor adhesion in the pristine state and quantify the impact of introducing n-type dopants or p-type dopants in ZrO2 and vacancies in oxygen atoms (nVO; with n = 1, 2, 4, 8, 10, 16), zirconium atoms (mVZr; with m = 1, 2, 4, 8), or both (nVO + mVZr; with m/n = 1:2, 1:4, 2:2, 2:4). In the case of doping, interfacial electron transfer promotes an increase in the work of adhesion, from initially 0.16 to ∼0.8 J m-2 (n-type) and ∼2.0 J m-2 (p-type) at 10% doping. A similar increase in the work of adhesion is obtained by introducing vacancies, e.g., VO [VZr] in the oxide layer yields a work of adhesion of ∼1.5-2.0 J m-2 at 10% vacancies. An increase is also observed when mixing VO and VZr vacancies in a nonstoichiometric ratio (nVO + mVZr; with 2n ≠ m), while a stoichiometric ratio of VO and VZr has no impact on the interfacial properties.
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- David Cornil
- Laboratory for Chemistry of Novel Materials, University of Mons (UMONS), Place du Parc 20, 7000 Mons, Belgium
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- AGC Glass Europe Technovation Centre, rue Louis Blériot 12, 6041 Gosselies, Belgium
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- AGC Glass Europe Technovation Centre, rue Louis Blériot 12, 6041 Gosselies, Belgium
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- AGC Glass Europe Technovation Centre, rue Louis Blériot 12, 6041 Gosselies, Belgium
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- Laboratory for Chemistry of Novel Materials, University of Mons (UMONS), Place du Parc 20, 7000 Mons, Belgium
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- Laboratory for Chemistry of Novel Materials, University of Mons (UMONS), Place du Parc 20, 7000 Mons, Belgium
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Thang HV, Albanese E, Pacchioni G. Electronic structure of CuWO 4: dielectric-dependent, self-consistent hybrid functional study of a Mott-Hubbard type insulator. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2019; 31:145503. [PMID: 30650395 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/aaff3e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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CuWO4 is a semiconducting oxide with interesting applications in photocatalysis. In this paper we present an accurate study of the electronic properties of stoichiometric and oxygen deficient CuWO4 based on a dielectric dependent hybrid density functional. In CuWO4 the Cu ions (Cu2+) are in a 3d9 configuration, so that the material must be classified as a magnetic insulator. Various magnetic configurations of CuWO4 have been considered, the most stable configuration being anti-ferromagnetic. The band structure, described in terms of density of states (DOS), exhibit the presence of a wide band dominated by W 5d states, separated by about 5 eV from the top of the valence band (VB), consisting of O 2p states partly mixed with Cu 3d states. The empty component of the Cu 3d orbitals forms a narrow band 3.6 eV above the VB maximum. The electronic structure emerging from the DOS curves and the Kohn-Sham energies is hard to reconcile with an experimental band gap of 2.1-2.3 eV. This gap can be rationalized within the Mott-Hubbard model of magnetic insulators, and has been computed from the total energies of the system with one electron removed from the O 2p band and one electron added to the Cu 3d states. Computing the charge transition levels for CuWO4, we come to a theoretical band gap of 2.1 eV, in excellent agreement with the experimental observations. We also studied the nature of the oxygen vacancy in CuWO4 with particular attention to the electron redistribution following the oxygen removal. The excess electrons, in fact, can occupy the localized 3d states of Cu or the localized 5d states of W. The resulting solution depends on various factors, including the concentration of oxygen vacancies.
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- Ho Viet Thang
- Departimento di Scienza dei Materiali, Università di Milano-Bicocca, via Cozzi 55, 20125 Milano, Italy
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Ruiz Puigdollers A, Schlexer P, Tosoni S, Pacchioni G. Increasing Oxide Reducibility: The Role of Metal/Oxide Interfaces in the Formation of Oxygen Vacancies. ACS Catal 2017. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.7b01913] [Citation(s) in RCA: 423] [Impact Index Per Article: 60.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Antonio Ruiz Puigdollers
- Dipartimento di Scienza dei Materiali, Università di Milano-Bicocca, via R. Cozzi, 55 I-20125 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienza dei Materiali, Università di Milano-Bicocca, via R. Cozzi, 55 I-20125 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienza dei Materiali, Università di Milano-Bicocca, via R. Cozzi, 55 I-20125 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienza dei Materiali, Università di Milano-Bicocca, via R. Cozzi, 55 I-20125 Milano, Italy
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