Materials Data on LiCoO2 by Materials Project

LiCoO2 is Caswellsilverite-like structured and crystallizes in the tetragonal P4/mmm space group. The structure is three-dimensional. Li1+ is bonded to six O2- atoms to form LiO6 octahedra that share corners with six equivalent LiO6 octahedra, edges with four equivalent LiO6 octahedra, and edges with eight equivalent CoO6 octahedra. The corner-sharing octahedral tilt angles are 0°. There are two shorter (1.93 Å) and four longer (2.12 Å) Li–O bond lengths. Co3+ is bonded to six O2- atoms to form CoO6 octahedra that share corners with six equivalent CoO6 octahedra, edges with four equivalent CoO6 octahedra, and edges with eight equivalent LiO6 octahedra. The corner-sharing octahedral tilt angles are 0°. There are two shorter (1.93 Å) and four longer (2.12 Å) Co–O bond lengths. There are two inequivalent O2- sites. In the first O2- site, O2- is bonded to two equivalent Li1+ and four equivalent Co3+ atoms to form a mixture of edge and corner-sharing OLi2Co4 octahedra. The corner-sharing octahedral tilt angles are 0°. In the second O2- site, O2- is bonded to four equivalent Li1+ and two equivalent Co3+ atoms to form OLi4Co2 octahedra that share corners with six equivalent OLi4Co2 octahedra and edges with twelve OLi2Co4 octahedra. The corner-sharing octahedral tilt angles are 0°.