Investigations of the lithium/molybdenum disulfide intercalation battery showed that naturally occurring molybdenite, MoS₂, from the Endako mines had a type of capacity not found in synthetic MoS₂. The behaviour of this extra capacity was examined and attempts were made to find its source. Materials were synthesized that could indirectly produce the same electrochemical behaviour, and in-situ X-ray diffraction determined MO₃S₄ to be the crystal responsible for this capacity.
The lithium/Mo₃Si, system was found to be an intercalation battery with an energy density of about 275 watt-hours per kilogram of cathode material. Over half of the capacity was at 2.09V in a first order phase transition which did not greatly alter the host lattice. Most of the remaining capacity was divided evenly between regions of continuous lattice expansion near 2.46V and 2.05V. / Science, Faculty of / Physics and Astronomy, Department of / Graduate
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UBC/oai:circle.library.ubc.ca:2429/23143 |
| Date | January 1982 |
| Creators | Mulhern, Peter John |
| Source Sets | University of British Columbia |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, Thesis/Dissertation |
| Rights | For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https://open.library.ubc.ca/terms_of_use. |
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