Seminal Literature

LiCoO2 LCO - The First High-Voltage Intercalation Cathode

In 1980, John Goodenoughʼs team at Oxford unveiled the oxide cathode LiCoO2 as a high-voltage lithium-ion intercalation material. There is no more powerful way to describe this discovery/invention than as follows: 45 years later, one can safely bet that the device you are using to read this Battery Report is powered by LiCoO2. The layered structure of LiCoO2, not unlike that of LiTiS2, would later be compositionally altered through elemental substitutions to form the NMC and NCA material classes. Source: Mizushima, Jones, Wiseman, Goodenough Mat. Res. Bull. 1980. Manthiram, Goodenough Nat. Energy 2021.; Image - UChicago

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