Science Daily  May 8, 2024 On charging the Li-deficient frameworks in lithium (Li)-ion cathodes become vulnerable to lattice strain and structural and/or chemo-mechanical degradation, resulting in rapid capacity deterioration and thus short battery life. Guided by fundamental principles of structural chemistry and achieved through an improved ceramic synthesis process, an international team of researchers (the Netherlands, China) developed an approach that addressed these issues using the integration of chemical short-range disorder (CSRD) into oxide cathodes, which involved the localized distribution of elements in a crystalline lattice over spatial dimensions, spanning a few nearest-neighbour spacings. They demonstrated how the introduction of […]