“There are many reasons we want to transition away from using cobalt in order to improve lithium-ion batteries,” said Professor Atsuo Yamada from the Department of Chemical System Engineering.

A team of scientists in South Korea has discovered a hidden problem that causes lithium-ion batteries to wear out faster—and they’ve found a simple way to stop it. These batteries are widely used in ...

In addition, this chemical short-range disorder increases ... for well-established commercial cathodes such as lithium cobalt oxide (LiCoO 2) and lithium nickel manganese cobalt oxide (NMC811).

Today’s electric vehicles (EVs) mainly use batteries with cathodes made of lithium nickel manganese cobalt oxide (NMC ... why carmakers are turning to LFP chemistry after chasing NMC for ...

These help to break up the spent cathode material from the batteries—lithium-coated nickel cobalt manganese oxide (NCM). The NCM particles are mixed with an iron(II) salt, sodium oxalate ...

While we know that the cathode is primarily manganese oxide ... the exact battery chemistry. It has indicated, however, that the battery uses no lithium, cobalt or nickel to avoid the problems ...