Lack of Cation Clustering in Li[Ni<i><sub>x</sub></i>Li<sub>1/3</sub><sub>-</sub><sub>2</sub><i><sub>x</sub></i><sub>/3</sub>Mn<sub>2/3</sub><sub>-</sub><i><sub>x</sub></i><sub>/</sub><sub>3</sub>]O<sub>2</sub> (0 < <i>x</i> ≤ <sup>1</sup>/<sub>2</sub>) and Li[Cr<i><sub>x</sub></i>Li<sub>(1</sub><sub>-</sub><i><sub>x</sub></i><sub>)/3</sub>Mn<sub>(2</sub><sub>-</sub><sub>2</sub><i><sub>x</sub></i><sub>)/3</sub>]O<sub>2</sub> (0 < <i>x </i>< 1)
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Abstract
Recent papers by Ammundsen et al. and Pan et al. give evidence for the formation of local regions high in Mn content and other local regions high in Cr or Ni content in Li[Li 0.2 Cr 0.4 Mn 0.4 ]O 2 and Li[Ni 0.5 Mn 0.5 ]O 2 by EXAFS and NMR methods, respectively. These observations are surprising for the following reasons: (1) each of these materials is a part of a solid solution series, Li[Cr x Li (1 - x )/3 Mn (2 - 2 x )/ 3 ]O 2 (0 < x < 1) or Li[Ni x Li 1/3 - 2 x /3 Mn 2/3 - x /3 ]O 2 (0 < x < 1 / 2 ); (2) the materials are made at high temperature, and entropy considerations suggest that like transition-metal atoms should not cluster; and (3) the electrochemical and structural properties of the materials vary smoothly with composition. Here, using careful X-ray diffraction on many samples from each solid solution, we show that it is very unlikely that such local regions high in Mn, Ni, or Cr exist. We show that long-ranged lithium ordering on the 3 1/2 a × 3 1/2 a superstructure occurs as expected based on the work of Schick et al., however, this does not imply local regions of Li 2 MnO 3 . Instead, the diffraction angles of the superstructure peaks shift with composition suggesting that the Mn, Cr, or Ni are uniformly mixed on the transition-metal sites. In addition, we show that the electrochemical behavior of Li[Ni x Li 1/3 - 2 x /3 Mn 2/3 - x /3 ]O 2 heated to 1000 °C is improved compared to that of samples made at 900 °C.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.052 | 0.025 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.077 | 0.096 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.069 | 0.034 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.034 | 0.054 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.027 | 0.034 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.027 | 0.043 |
| Open science | 0.050 | 0.038 |
| Research integrity | 0.051 | 0.055 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.028 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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