Mitsuharu Tabuchi, Kazuaki Ado, Hironori Kobayashi, Hikari Sakaebe, Hiroyuki Kageyama, Christian Masquelier, Masao Yonemura, Atsushi Hirano and Ryoji Kanno
Iron doped/undoped LiCoO2 powders could be obtained from hydrothermal reactions of either Fe3+ or Co3+ containing co-precipitates or a CoCl2-NaOH-NaClO3 (oxidant) mixture with an excess amount of LiOH·H2O at 220°C for 8-48 h. The LiFexCo1–xO2 solid solution maintained a layered rock-salt structure until x=0.25. 57Fe Mössbauer and Co K-edge XANES spectra and magnetic susceptibility data reveal that iron and cobalt in the solid solution are in high-spin Fe3+ (S=5/2) and low-spin Co3+ (S=0) configurations.