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Title: Stacking-Sequence Changes and Na Ordering in Layered Intercalation Materials

Journal Article · · Chemistry of Materials

The performance of Na-ion batteries is sensitive to the nature of cation ordering and phase transformations that occur within the intercalation compounds used as electrodes. In order to elucidate these effects in layered Na intercalation compounds, we have carried out a first-principles statistical mechanics study of Na ordering and stacking-sequence preferences in the model compound NaxTiS2. Our calculations predict a series of structural phase transitions at room temperature between O3, P3, O1, O1–O3 staged hybrid, and O1–P3 staged hybrid. We further explore the ordering of Na ions in P3 and O3 and find that these host structures favor very distinct Na-vacancy patterns. Low energy orderings on the honeycomb lattice in P3 consist of triangular island domains with vacancies coalescing at antiphase boundaries. This results in a devil’s staircase of ground-state Na orderings within P3 that are unlike the orderings possible in the triangular lattice of Na sites in O3. Here, we explore the role that antiphase boundaries play in mediating Na diffusion in the P3 host.

Research Organization:
Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Northeastern Center for Chemical Energy Storage (NECCES)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Scientific User Facilities Division
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0001294; DMR-1410242; DMR-1121053; AC02-05CH11231; SC0012583
OSTI ID:
1388469
Journal Information:
Chemistry of Materials, Vol. 28, Issue 23; Related Information: NECCES partners with Stony Brook University (lead); Argonne National Laboratory; Binghamton University; Brookhaven National University; University of California, San Diego; University of Cambridge, UK; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; University of Michigan; Rutgers University; ISSN 0897-4756
Publisher:
American Chemical Society (ACS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 54 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

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