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Excess Li ions in a small graphite cluster

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

M. Nakadaira
Affiliation:
Department of Electronics Engineering, University of Electro-Communications, Chofugaoka, Chofu, 182 Tokyo, Japan
R. Saito
Affiliation:
Department of Electronics Engineering, University of Electro-Communications, Chofugaoka, Chofu, 182 Tokyo, Japan
T. Kimura
Affiliation:
Department of Electronics Engineering, University of Electro-Communications, Chofugaoka, Chofu, 182 Tokyo, Japan
G. Dresselhaus
Affiliation:
Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
M. S. Dresselhaus
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

Abstract

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We calculate the optimized geometry and the corresponding electronic structure of Li ions doped in a small graphite cluster with dangling bonds or hydrogen terminations at the edge surrounding the cluster. The calculations imply both covalent and ionic bonds of Li ions to carbon atoms, which may be relevant to explaining the broad signal of the 7Li NMR Knight shift spectra. Li intercalation, in particular, is possible even at the hydrogen-terminated edges. Because of the finite size effect of the cluster, the ionicity of intercalated Li ions has a large distribution of values, ranging from positive values close to that in graphite intercalation compounds to even slightly negative values, depending on the bonding geometry. We propose that the cluster edge surface plays a special role in accommodating excess Li ions in the disordered graphite system.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1997

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