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Real crystal structures loaded from published CIF files. Rotate them, isolate the lithium sites and see the network of short Li–Li distances that ions hop along.

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LiCoO₂

Layered cathode · R3m

  • Li–Li hop

Li⁺ moves within 2D lithium layers between the CoO₂ slabs; neighbouring Li sites are 2.81 Å apart.[33, 34, 59]

Atomic positions come from the published crystal structure (CIF file from the Crystallography Open Database, COD 4505482), expanded with its space-group symmetry. Every Li site is shown, including partly occupied ones. Green dashed lines join Li sites within the chosen distance: a geometric picture of possible hops, not a calculation of energy barriers.

Sources: [33] Mizushima et al. (1980) · [34] Lin et al. (2012) · [59] Gražulis et al. (2012)