{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Huang Y"],"funding":["State Key Laboratory of Organic-Inorganic Composites","Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities","National Science Associated Funding","National Natural Science Foundation of China","China Postdoctoral Science Foundation","Science Challenging Program"],"pagination":["239-246"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC8291545"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["6(2)"],"pubmed_abstract":["Lithium titanium oxide (Li<sub>4</sub>Ti<sub>5</sub>O<sub>12</sub>, LTO), a 'zero-strain' anode material for lithium-ion batteries, exhibits excellent cycling performance. However, its poor conductivity highly limits its applications. Here, the structural stability and conductivity of LTO were studied using <i>in situ</i> high-pressure measurements and first-principles calculations. LTO underwent a pressure-induced amorphization (PIA) at 26.9 GPa. The impedance spectroscopy revealed that the conductivity of LTO improved significantly after amorphization and that the conductivity of decompressed amorphous LTO increased by an order of magnitude compared with its starting phase. Furthermore, our calculations demonstrated that the different compressibility of the LiO<sub>6</sub> and TiO<sub>6<"],"journal":["National science review"],"pubmed_title":["Li-ion battery material under high pressure: amorphization and enhanced conductivity of Li<sub>4</sub>Ti<sub>5</sub>O<sub>12</sub>."],"pmcid":["PMC8291545"],"funding_grant_id":["2016M592701","ZY1720","11874076","oic-201701011","JCKY2016212A501","U1530402","61504034","51302259"],"pubmed_authors":["Sheng H","Li X","Liu Y","Li H","Kim DY","Huang Y","He Y","Lu X","Dong H","Mao HK","Samanta S","Wang L"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Li-ion battery material under high pressure: amorphization and enhanced conductivity of Li<sub>4</sub>Ti<sub>5</sub>O<sub>12</sub>.","description":"Lithium titanium oxide (Li<sub>4</sub>Ti<sub>5</sub>O<sub>12</sub>, LTO), a 'zero-strain' anode material for lithium-ion batteries, exhibits excellent cycling performance. However, its poor conductivity highly limits its applications. Here, the structural stability and conductivity of LTO were studied using <i>in situ</i> high-pressure measurements and first-principles calculations. LTO underwent a pressure-induced amorphization (PIA) at 26.9 GPa. The impedance spectroscopy revealed that the conductivity of LTO improved significantly after amorphization and that the conductivity of decompressed amorphous LTO increased by an order of magnitude compared with its starting phase. Furthermore, our calculations demonstrated that the different compressibility of the LiO<sub>6</sub> and TiO<sub>6<","dates":{"release":"2019-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2019 Mar","modification":"2025-04-22T11:25:52.898Z","creation":"2025-04-06T00:00:37.672Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC8291545","cross_references":{"pubmed":["34691862"],"doi":["10.1093/nsr/nwy122"]}}