Materials Data on LiCo3NiO8 by Materials Project
LiCo3NiO8 is beta indium sulfide-derived structured and crystallizes in the trigonal R-3m space group. The structure is three-dimensional. Li1+ is bonded to six equivalent O2- atoms to form distorted LiO6 octahedra that share corners with six equivalent NiO6 octahedra and edges with six equivalent CoO6 octahedra. The corner-sharing octahedral tilt angles are 15°. All Li–O bond lengths are 2.18 Å. Co+3.67+ is bonded to six O2- atoms to form CoO6 octahedra that share edges with two equivalent LiO6 octahedra, edges with two equivalent NiO6 octahedra, and edges with four equivalent CoO6 octahedra. There is four shorter (1.88 Å) and two longer (1.89 Å) Co–O bond length. Ni4+ is bonded to six equivalent O2- atoms to form NiO6 octahedra that share corners with six equivalent LiO6 octahedra and edges with six equivalent CoO6 octahedra. The corner-sharing octahedral tilt angles are 15°. All Ni–O bond lengths are 1.98 Å. There are two inequivalent O2- sites. In the first O2- site, O2- is bonded in a see-saw-like geometry to one Li1+, two equivalent Co+3.67+, and one Ni4+ atom. In the second O2- site, O2- is bonded in a 3-coordinate geometry to three equivalent Co+3.67+ atoms.