Synthesis of lithium titanate by means of the OPM route

• Grant number: 16/14667-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: September 01, 2016
• End date: December 31, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Chemistry
• Principal Investigator: Emerson Rodrigues de Camargo
• Grantee: Lucas da Silva Ribeiro
• Host Institution: Centro de Ciências Exatas e de Tecnologia (CCET). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 13/07296-2 - CDMF - Center for the Development of Functional Materials, AP.CEPID

Abstract

Lithium titanate (Li4Ti5O12, or LTO) with spinel structure can be used as cathode material in lithium batteries, however the presence of residual carbon can result in explosions. There are several wet chemical routes proposed to synthesize LTO, but the oxidant peroxide method (OPM), which uses titanium dioxide nanoparticles with the surface modified with peroxide groups, has some unique advantages, such as the total absence of halides or residual carbons. Moreover, the exothermic decomposition of peroxide groups during the solid state reaction between TiO2 nanoparticles and lithium precursors can generate an additional amount of energy to active the reaction, reducing the temperature necessary to form pure LTO and contribute to overcome the energy barrier, increasing the reaction velocity but keeping the control over the average particle size and size distribution.

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

RIBEIRO, LUCAS S.; NOGUEIRA, ANDRE E.; AQUINO, JOSE M.; CAMARGO, EMERSON R.. A new strategy to obtain nano-scale particles of lithium titanate (Li4Ti5O12) by the oxidant peroxo method (OPM). CERAMICS INTERNATIONAL, v. 45, n. 18, p. 7-pg., 2019-12-15. (16/14667-5, 15/13958-3, 14/25616-7, 13/07296-2, 18/12871-0, 14/09014-7)

RIBEIRO, LUCAS S.; NOGUEIRA, ANDRE E.; AQUINO, JOSE M.; CAMARGO, EMERSON R.. A new strategy to obtain nano-scale particles of lithium titanate (Li4Ti5O12) by the oxidant peroxo method (OPM). CERAMICS INTERNATIONAL, v. 45, n. 18, A, p. 23917-23923, DEC 15 2019. (16/14667-5, 13/07296-2, 18/12871-0, 14/25616-7, 14/09014-7, 15/13958-3)