Charge Density and Redox Potential of LiNiO 2 Using Ab Initio Diffusion Quantum Monte Carlo
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Saritas, Kayahan
Fadel, Eric R.
Kozinsky, Boris
Grossman, Jeffrey C.
Date Issued
2020
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Journal of Physical Chemistry C
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American Chemical Society (ACS)
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Original manuscript
Abstract
Copyright © 2020 American Chemical Society. We investigate the charge densities, lithium intercalation potentials, and Li-diffusion barrier energies of LixNiO2 (0.0 < x < 1.0) system using the diffusion quantum Monte Carlo (DMC) method. We find an average redox potential of 4.1(2) eV and a Li-diffusion barrier energy of 0.39(3) eV with DMC. Comparisoin of the charge densities from DMC and density functional theory (DFT) and show that local and semilocal DFT functionals yield spin polarization densities with an incorrect sign on the oxygen atoms. The SCAN functional and Hubbard-U correction improves the polarization density around Ni and O atoms, resulting in smaller deviations from the DMC densities. DMC accurately captures the many-body nature of Ni-O bonding, hence yielding accurate lithium intercalation voltages, polarization densities, and reaction barriers. ©
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and Engineering
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https://doi.org/10.1021/ACS.JPCC.9B10372
