Designing layered oxide materials for sodium-ion batteries

Lithium cobalt oxide is a layered metal oxide that has attracted great attention to develop rechargeable batteries. Sodium-ion batteries can store grid-scale energy due to the natural abundance of sodium. The composition can determine the structural chemistry for electrochemical performance, however, due to complex compositions, the results are very challenging to predict. In a new report now on Science, Chenglong Zhao and a team of international scientists at the Chinese Academy of Science, China, Harvard University, U.S., Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, and the University of Toronto, Canada, introduced a "cationic potential" to capture key interactions of layered materials and predict the resulting stacking structures. The team showed how the stacking architecture determined the functional properties to offer solutions towards developing alkali metal layered oxides for electrical energy storage.

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