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2. Understanding the Effect of Doping on the Charging Performance of Li–O2 Batteries: The Role of Hole Polarons and Lithium Vacancies
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Cortes, Henry A., primary, Zapata, Jhon F., additional, Barral, María A., additional, and Vildosola, Verónica L., additional
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- 2021
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3. Revealing the Li 2 O 2 Nucleation Mechanisms on CeO 2 Catalysts for Lithium‐Oxygen Batteries
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Cortes, Henry A., primary, Barral, María A., additional, Seriani, Nicola, additional, Corti, Horacio R., additional, and Vildosola, Verónica L., additional
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- 2020
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4. Understanding the Effect of Doping on the Charging Performance of Li–O2Batteries: The Role of Hole Polarons and Lithium Vacancies
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Cortes, Henry A., Zapata, Jhon F., Barral, María A., and Vildosola, Verónica L.
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In this work, we perform density functional theory calculations using the hybrid functional Heyd–Scuseria–Ernzerhof to properly describe the insulating nature of lithium peroxide and study its more energetically favorable surfaces [0001], [11̅00], and [112̅0]. We then analyze how the insulating nature and the correct description of the hole polarons at the Li2O2surfaces affect the electrochemical steps of Li2O2decomposition in the charging process of Li–O2batteries. We then study the effect of doping and propose possible scenarios in which ions such as Na+or K+dissolved in the electrolyte can dope and promote the generation of Li vacancies in Li2O2that, in turn, reduce the energy barrier of the limiting steps of Li2O2decomposition. The origin of this reduction are the lattice distortions associated with doping that weaken the surface binding.
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- 2021
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5. Revealing the Li2O2 Nucleation Mechanisms on CeO2 Catalysts for Lithium‐Oxygen Batteries.
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Cortes, Henry A., Barral, María A., Seriani, Nicola, Corti, Horacio R., and Vildosola, Verónica L.
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ELECTRIC batteries ,DENSITY functional theory ,NANOPARTICLES - Abstract
The addition of ceria (CeO2) nanoparticles to the cathode of a lithium‐oxygen battery results in increased capacity, lower overpotentials and better cyclability. To shed light on the mechanisms of this performance enhancement, we have investigated the early stages of Li2O2 nucleation at stoichiometric and reduced ceria surfaces by means of atomistic simulations based on density functional theory. Adsorption energies are stronger on ceria than on graphene, that is, nucleation mainly would take place on the oxide. The adsorption process of O2 is the one that determines the nucleation sites for the Li2O2 formation on the different CeO2 surfaces. The LiO2 intermediate is adsorbed at the O2 reduction sites. On the reduced (100) surface, the LiO2 tends to adsorb dissociatively, opening up the possibility to the formation of other species than the desired end‐product, Li2O2. On the contrary, optimal properties are found for the reduced (110) surface, which should therefore be the most active surface for Li2O2 nucleation among all low‐index surfaces of ceria. These findings could pave the route to produce better cathodes for Li‐oxygen batteries by the addition of carefully designed ceria nanoparticles, which maximizes the exposition of the most favorable facet. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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6. Effect of halogen dopants on the properties of Li2O2: is chloride special?
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Cortes, Henry A., primary, Vildosola, Verónica L., additional, Barral, María Andrea, additional, and Corti, Horacio R., additional
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- 2018
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7. Effect of halogen dopants on the properties of Li2O2: is chloride special?
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Cortes, Henry A., Vildosola, Verónica L., Barral, María Andrea, and Corti, Horacio R.
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There is consensus on the fact that one of the main limitations of Li air batteries (LABs) is the insulating character of Li
2 O2 and that it becomes crucial to explore new conduction paths. Recent studies indicate that doping with chloride increases the ion conductivity of Li2 O2 , although to a much lesser extent than expected if chloride is assumed to be a donor dopant [Gerbig et al., Adv. Mater., 2013, 25, 3129]. Subsequently, it has been shown that the addition of lithium chloride, LiCl, to the battery electrolyte increases its discharge capacity, while this effect is not observed with other halogens [Matsuda et al., J. Phys. Chem. C, 2016, 120, 13360]. This fact was attributed to an increase in the conductivity of Cl-doped Li2 O2 , but still the responsible mechanism is not clear. In this work, we have performed first principle calculations to study the effect of the different halogens (F, Cl, Br, I) as substitutional defects on the electronic and transport properties of Li2 O2 . We have calculated the formation energies of the different defects and impurities and we analysed how they affect the activation barriers and diffusion coefficients. We have demonstrated that the chloride does not behave like a donor dopant, thus explaining the meager increase of the ionic conductivity experimentally observed, and neither does it promote polaron formation and mobility. We have also found that chloride does not present any special behaviour among the halogen series. Our results reveal that all the studied configurations associated with the halogen defects do not derive metallic states nor extra polarons that would increase considerably the electronic conductivity. This is mainly due to the ionic characteristics of the Li2 O2 crystal and the capability of the oxygen dimers to adapt its valence rather than to the nature of the dopant itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
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8. Propiedades electrónicas en compuestos intermetálicos de Ce : del cálculo de bandas a las interacciones de muchos cuerpos
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Vildosola, Verónica L. and Llois, Ana María
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ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES ,HEAVY FERMIONS ,AB-INITIO CALCULATIONS ,FERMIONES PESADOS ,HIGHLY CORRELATED SYSTEMS ,SISTEMAS FUERTEMENTE CORRELACIONADOS ,CALCULOS DE PRIMEROS PRINCIPIOS ,PROPIEDADES ELECTRONICAS - Abstract
En este trabajo se estudian las propiedades electrónicas de compuestos de Cerio quese caracterizan por la presencia de electrones 4ƒ. En una primera parte, se llevan a cabocálculos de primeros principios mediante el método FP-LAPW para analizar el efecto delentorno químico y cristalino en el grado de localización espacial del estado 4ƒ y su relacióncon el valor del momento magnético de espín del Cerio en un grupo de compuestos de Cerio. Posteriormente, dentro del mismo marco teórico nos abocamos al estudio de loscompuestos tetragonales CeM2Si2 con M=Ru, Rh y Pd. Analizamos la influencia de lahibridización del estado 4ƒ con la banda de conducción sobre las propiedades estructuralesdel equilibrio y bajo la aplicación de presión hidrostática, así como también la evolucióndel momento magnético de espín. Se calcula la función hibridización, Γ(ε), cuyos resultadosson consistentes con los que surgen del estudio de las propiedades estructurales ymagnéticas, es decir que la hibridización disminuye a medida que aumenta el llenado de labanda 4d del metal de transición. Por otro lado, se observa que la evolución del parametroc/a es cualitativamente distinta en cada sistema. Se interpreta dicha evolución en base alanálisis de la variación de las distintas distancias interatómicas en función de la presióny su relación con la ocupación 4d. En la segunda parte de esta tesis aplicamos a compuestos del tipo CeM2Si2 dos técnicasmixtas que pretenden corregir las falencias de los cálculos de primeros principios, LDA+U y LDA+NCA. La técnica LDA+U incluye un término ad-hoc en el hamiltonianode primeros principios, que da cuenta de las correlaciones fuertes del estado 4ƒ y quepermite corregir su energía con respecto al resultado LDA. Se comparan los resultadosobtenidos para los tres sistemas en términos de la hibridización 4ƒ-4d. La segunda técnicamixta empleada consiste en resolver el hamiltoniano de la impureza de Anderson en laaproximación NCA usando como dato de entrada a la función Γ(ε). Se calculan los desdoblamientosdel nivel 4ƒ por efecto del campo cristalino y se determinan las simetríasdel estado fundamental y de los primeros estados excitados. Estos resultados tienen valorpredictivo y contribuyen a esclarecer contradicciones existentes entre los datos experimentales. Además, se estudian las propiedades espectrales, obteniendo buen acuerdo con losespectros de fotoemisión de la literatura. Las características de la función espectral a bajasenergías reflejan correctamente la secuencia experimental de las temperaturas de Kondo deestos sistemas, resultado que sólo fue posible gracias a que la función Γ(ε) contiene informacióndetallada sobre el entorno cristalino. LDA+NCA demuestra ser una herramientade cálculo valiosa para estudiar compuestos de Cerio fuertemente correlacionados. We study the electronic properties of Cerium compounds which are characterized bythe presence of 4ƒ electrons. In the first part of this work, we perform ab-initio calculationsusing the FP_LAPW method and analize the effect of chemical and crystalline enviromenton the degree of localization of the 4ƒ state and of its relationship with Cerium spinmagnetic moment within a group of Cerium compounds. Then, we concentrate on thetetragonal series CeM2Si2 with M=Ru, Rh and Pd within the same band theory frame. We study the influence of 4ƒ-conduction band hybridization on the structural propertiesat equilibrium and under applied hydrostatic pressure, together with the evolution of the Cerium spin magnetic moment. We also calculate the hybridization function, Γ(ε), whichconsistently with the previous results indicates that the strengh of hybridization increaseswith decreasing transition metal 4d band filling. On the other hand, we observe that theevolution of c/a ratio is qualitatively different within the three systems. We interpret thisevolution in terms of the variation of the interatomic M-M distances as a function ofpressure and its relationship with the 4d occupation number of the M atom. In the second part of this thesis, we apply two mixed techniques, LDA+U and LDA+NCA,which consider the interactions that are absent in the band theory. LDA+U method introducesa term ad-hoc that accounts for the strong correlations of the 4ƒ states andgives 4ƒ energies which are more reallistic that the previous ones (LDA). We comparethe obtained results in terms of 4ƒ-4d hybridization. The second mixed technique solvesthe Anderson impurity model within the NCA using as input the hybridization function Γ(ε). We calculate the crystal field splittings of the 4ƒ level and determine the symmetriesof the ground and excited states. These results have predictive value and help to shedlight on the existing contradictions in the available experimental data. We also study thespectral properties and obtain good agreement with photoemission spectra taken from theliterature. The calculated low energy spectral function reflects the experimental sequenceof Kondo temperatures within these tetragonal systems, result that could be obtained justbecause the Γ(ε) function contains the detailed information of the crystal] enviroment. LDA+NCA proves to be a valuable tool to study highly correlated Cerium compounds. Fil: Vildosola, Verónica L.. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Argentina.
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9. Effect of halogen dopants on the properties of Li 2 O 2 : is chloride special?
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Cortes HA, Vildosola VL, Barral MA, and Corti HR
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There is consensus on the fact that one of the main limitations of Li air batteries (LABs) is the insulating character of Li2O2 and that it becomes crucial to explore new conduction paths. Recent studies indicate that doping with chloride increases the ion conductivity of Li2O2, although to a much lesser extent than expected if chloride is assumed to be a donor dopant [Gerbig et al., Adv. Mater., 2013, 25, 3129]. Subsequently, it has been shown that the addition of lithium chloride, LiCl, to the battery electrolyte increases its discharge capacity, while this effect is not observed with other halogens [Matsuda et al., J. Phys. Chem. C, 2016, 120, 13360]. This fact was attributed to an increase in the conductivity of Cl-doped Li2O2, but still the responsible mechanism is not clear. In this work, we have performed first principle calculations to study the effect of the different halogens (F, Cl, Br, I) as substitutional defects on the electronic and transport properties of Li2O2. We have calculated the formation energies of the different defects and impurities and we analysed how they affect the activation barriers and diffusion coefficients. We have demonstrated that the chloride does not behave like a donor dopant, thus explaining the meager increase of the ionic conductivity experimentally observed, and neither does it promote polaron formation and mobility. We have also found that chloride does not present any special behaviour among the halogen series. Our results reveal that all the studied configurations associated with the halogen defects do not derive metallic states nor extra polarons that would increase considerably the electronic conductivity. This is mainly due to the ionic characteristics of the Li2O2 crystal and the capability of the oxygen dimers to adapt its valence rather than to the nature of the dopant itself.
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- 2018
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