Zhang, Wei;
Wu, Yulun;
Xu, Zhenming;
Li, Huangxu;
Xu, Ming;
Li, Jianwei;
Dai, Yuhang;
... Parkin, Ivan P; + view all
(2022)
Rationally Designed Sodium Chromium Vanadium Phosphate Cathodes with Multi-Electron Reaction for Fast-Charging Sodium-Ion Batteries.
Advanced Energy Materials
, Article 2201065. 10.1002/aenm.202201065.
(In press).
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Abstract
Sodium super-ionic conductor (NASICON)-structured phosphates are emerging as rising stars as cathodes for sodium-ion batteries. However, they usually suffer from a relatively low capacity due to the limited activated redox couples and low intrinsic electronic conductivity. Herein, a reduced graphene oxide supported NASICON Na3Cr0.5V1.5(PO4)3 cathode (VC/C-G) is designed, which displays ultrafast (up to 50 C) and ultrastable (1 000 cycles at 20 C) Na+ storage properties. The VC/C-G can reach a high energy density of ≈470 W h kg−1 at 0.2 C with a specific capacity of 176 mAh g−1 (equivalent to the theoretical value); this corresponds to a three-electron transfer reaction based on fully activated V5+/V4+, V4+/V3+, V3+/V2+ couples. In situ X-ray diffraction (XRD) results disclose a combination of solid-solution reaction and biphasic reaction mechanisms upon cycling. Density functional theory calculations reveal a narrow forbidden-band gap of 1.41 eV and a low Na+ diffusion energy barrier of 0.194 eV. Furthermore, VC/C-G shows excellent fast-charging performance by only taking ≈11 min to reach 80% state of charge. The work provides a widely applicable strategy for realizing multi-electron cathode design for high-performance SIBs.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Rationally Designed Sodium Chromium Vanadium Phosphate Cathodes with Multi-Electron Reaction for Fast-Charging Sodium-Ion Batteries |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1002/aenm.202201065 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202201065 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2022 The Authors. Advanced Energy Materials published by Wiley-VCH GmbH This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | Condensed Matter, Chemistry, Materials Science, Physics, fast-charging, multielectron reaction, NASICON, Sodium-ion batteries, NA-ION, HIGH-POWER, LITHIUM, STORAGE, REDOX, MN |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Chemical Engineering UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Chemistry |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10149081 |
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