9-13 July 2012
Africa/Johannesburg timezone
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First principle stability study of FePO<sub>4</sub> and LiFePO<sub>4</sub> polymorphs

10 Jul 2012, 14:30
20m
Oral Presentation Track A - Division for Condensed Matter Physics and Materials DCMPM1

Speaker

Mr NDANDULENI LESLEY LETHOLE (SAIP)

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YES

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MSc

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Lithium iron phosphate, LiFePO4 has been under intense study as a future cathode material for lithium ion batteries, due to its good thermal stability, competitive electrochemical properties, high safety, low cost, and long life cycle; and it has been recently commercialized in power tool applications. The electrochemical charge/discharge potential profile of Li/LiFePO4 cells is very flat and located at 3.45V vs. Li/Li+, moreover, its theoretical capacity is relatively high (170 mAh/g). We use first principle calculations to investigate the structural, electronic and mechanical properties of FePO4 and LiFePO4 employing the pseudo-potential plane-wave within the local density approximation. We also determine the effect of lithiation on FePO4 polymorphs. Our results show that β-FePO4 and HP-FePO4 shows stability over α-FePO4, while lithiation stabilises FePO4 polymorphs.

Main supervisor (name and email)<br>and his / her institution

PHUTI NGOEPE, PHUTI.NGOEPE@L.AC.ZA, UNIVERSITY OF LIMPOPO

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