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Record W4408194608 · doi:10.1021/acs.est.4c12200

Activating Carbon and Oxygen Bonds for Low-Temperature Thermal Decomposition of Spent Lithium-Ion Battery Cathode Materials

2025· article· en· W4408194608 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueEnvironmental Science & Technology · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicExtraction and Separation Processes
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
FundersHong Kong University of Science and TechnologyResearch Grants Council, University Grants Committee
KeywordsThermal decompositionActivation energyLithium (medication)Carbon fibersBattery (electricity)CathodeAtmospheric temperature rangeMaterials scienceGraphiteLithium-ion batteryChemistryDecompositionIonChemical engineeringPhysical chemistryThermodynamicsOrganic chemistryComposite material

Abstract

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High Resolution Image Download MS PowerPoint Slide The temperature for complete disintegration of spent lithium-ion battery (LIB) cathode materials is typically in a range of 750–1400 °C, resulting in intensive energy consumption and high carbon emissions. Here, we promote the bond activation of oxygen in LiNi 0.5 Co 0.2 Mn 0.3 O 2 and carbon in graphite electrodes, achieving rapid gasification and thermal decomposition of active crystals at lower temperatures in the absence of other activating agents. The activation of C and O bond leads to the storage of internal energy and the transition of the crystalline phase (single crystal to polycrystal) of the active crystals. Density functional theory modeling confirms that the CO adsorption energy is significantly higher with C a –O a (−3.35 eV, C and O activation) than with no activation (−1.66 eV). The differential charge results show that the bond activation model has the highest charge accumulation and consumption, improving the electron transfer. The Bader charge transfer between C a –O a and CO is also the largest, with a value of 0.433 |e|. Therefore, synchronous activation of C and O bonds can reduce the decomposition temperature of active crystals by 200 °C and allows a low-temperature pyrolysis recycling of retired LIB cathode materials. Our research provides a potential strategy for low-carbon recycling of retired LIBs worldwide.

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Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.008
Threshold uncertainty score0.314

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Opus teacher head0.004
GPT teacher head0.236
Teacher spread0.232 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it