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Modeling And Simulation Of Microstructures, Mechanisms, And Diffraction Effects In Energy Materials: Ferroelectrics And Lithium Ion Battery Cathode Materials, Jie Zhou Jan 2015

Modeling And Simulation Of Microstructures, Mechanisms, And Diffraction Effects In Energy Materials: Ferroelectrics And Lithium Ion Battery Cathode Materials, Jie Zhou

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Ferroelectric materials, as a large family exploited for the application of sensors, transducers and random access memories, open up a remarkable ground both for fundamental science and industry. Dielectric and piezoelectric properties are of the most interest in ferroelectric materials, which motivate research to enhance ferroelectric properties based on various application purposes. Among the multitudinous candidates in ferroelectric family, pseudo binary solid solutions with ABO3 lattice structure attract special attention in virtue of their large strain response when applying external loading. Furthermore, existence of morphological phase boundary (MPB) on their phase diagrams shed light on tuning material compositions to …


Faulted Structures In Li Ion Exchanged Namo2 (M=Ni(0.25)Mn(0.75)), Aaron M. Dewahl Jan 2013

Faulted Structures In Li Ion Exchanged Namo2 (M=Ni(0.25)Mn(0.75)), Aaron M. Dewahl

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A family of LiMO2 materials (M=Ni0.25Mn0.75) was prepared from Na1.2-xLixMO precursors (0≤x≤0.6) via ion exchange. The resulting IE products were examined via XRD and compared to simulated XRD patterns produced using DIFFax to determine the defect structures resulting from the IE process. For the 0.1≤x≤0.6 materials, it is observed that there are 3 LiMO2 sub-phases with different Li contents present. As the amount of Li in the precursor increases, the amount of each phase changes resulting in a net shift to higher 2-theta; corresponding to an overall decrease in lattice …