Toward the Development of a High-Voltage Mg Cathode Using a Chromium Sulfide Host

Blanc, Lauren; Bartel, Christopher J.; Kim, Haegyeom; Tian, Yaosen; Kim, Hyunchul; Miura, Akira; Ceder, Gerbrand; Nazar, Linda F.

doi:10.1021/acsmaterialslett.1c00308

Toward the Development of a High-Voltage Mg Cathode Using a Chromium Sulfide Host

Journal Article · Thu Jul 15 00:00:00 EDT 2021 · ACS Materials Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmaterialslett.1c00308· OSTI ID:1813418

Blanc, Lauren ^[1]; ^[2]; Kim, Haegyeom ^[3]; Tian, Yaosen ^[2]; ^[3]; ^[4]; ^[5]; ^[1]

Univ. of Waterloo, ON (Canada)
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo (Japan)
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Development of Mg-ion batteries as advanced electrochemical energy storage systems relies on the design and discovery of high-voltage positive electrode (cathode) materials. To date, a variety of sulfide cathodes have been reported (e.g., Mg_xMo₆S₈, Mg_xTi₂S4, etc.), but the voltages of these materials are too low to prepare a high energy density Mg cell. Theoretical computations predicted that Mg_xCr₂S₄ operating with the high-voltage Cr^3+/4+ redox couple would serve as a suitable cathode candidate, but experimental attempts to extract Mg²⁺ from the lattice have been largely unsuccessful. Here, we show that reversible electrochemical activity within a thiospinel framework (AB₂S₄) relies on a redox-active transition metal present in the B site; otherwise, anionic redox activity triggers decomposition of the spinel structure. Since Cr and S states are highly coupled in MgCr₂S₄, the Cr^3+/4+ redox couple is inaccessible so that reversible (de)intercalation of Mg²⁺ cannot occur and charging leads to dissolution of the active material. These findings point to an insufficiency in the screening criteria previously used to identify MgCr₂S₄ as a promising Mg cathode. Thus, a computable descriptor based on the electronic structure of the discharged material is proposed to predict the prevalence of cation vs anion redox and improve future surveys of potential candidates. It is unlikely that the high-voltage Cr redox couple will be accessible to oxidation in the presence of sulfur within the restrictions of a spinel framework; however, it is possible that a suitable layered Mg_xCrS₂ structure could serve as a reversible high-voltage Mg cathode.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231

OSTI ID:: 1813418

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1901061

Journal Information:: ACS Materials Letters, Journal Name: ACS Materials Letters Journal Issue: 8 Vol. 3; ISSN 2639-4979

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