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V$_2$O$_5$ is a promising battery electrode material that can intercalate not only Li, but also more abundant alkaline metals such as Na and K, and even multivalent ions such as Al, Ca, Cu, Mg, and Zn. V$_2$O$_5$ exhibits several different…
The phonon dynamics of LiV2O5 single crystals is studied using infrared and Raman spectroscopy techniques. The infrared-active phonon frequencies and dielectric constants are obtained by oscillator fitting procedure of the reflectivity data…
We use our recently proposed microscopic modeling in the framework of linear response theory to investigate the complete phonon dispersion, the phonon density of states, certain phonon-induced electronic charge distributions and charge…
We report investigation of phonons and oxygen diffusion in Bi2O3 and (Bi0.7Y0.3)2O3. The phonon spectra have been measured in Bi2O3 at high temperatures up to 1083 K using inelastic neutron scattering. Ab-initio calculations have been used…
We introduce a simple and efficient model to describe the potential energy surface of lithium diffusing in a solid-state ionic conductor. First, we assume that the Li atoms are fully ionized and we neglect the weak dependence of the…
In the layered transition metal oxide LiNbO$_2$ the Nb$^{3+}$ ($4d^2$) ion is trigonal-prismatically coordinated with O ions, with the resulting crystal field leading to a single band system for low energy properties. A tight-binding…
Atomic vibrational dynamics in cuprite, Cu2O, was studied by inelastic neutron scattering and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations from 10 K to 900 K. Above 300 K, a diffuse inelastic intensity (DII) appeared, obscuring the high-energy…
The $\alpha$ polymorph of V$_2$O$_5$ is one of the few known cathodes capable of reversibly intercalating multivalent ions such as Mg, Ca, Zn and Al, but suffers from sluggish diffusion kinetics. The role of H$_2$O within the electrolyte…
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