These materials are commonly used in lithium-ion batteries for mobile devices and electric vehicles, acting as the positively charged electrode, commonly called the cathode (though when charging it is actually the anode).OverviewLithium nickel manganese cobalt oxides (abbreviated NMC, Li-NMC, LNMC, or NCM) are mixed metal oxides of There. . NMC materials have similar to the individual metal oxide compound (LiCoO2). Lithium ions between the layers upon discharging, remaining between the lattice plan. . In NMC cathodes, the reversible insertion (lithiation) and extraction (delithiation) of lithium ions during battery discharge and charge are facilitated by redox reactions involving changes in the oxidation states of atoms withi. . The,, morphology, and composition all affect the performance of NMC materials, and these parameters can be tuned by using different methods. The first report of nickel manganes. . NMC cathode materials are historically related to 's 1980s work on (LiCoO2), and can be represented as an intergrowth between a layered NaFeO2-type oxide and a closely re.