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Title: Monovalent manganese based anodes and co-solvent electrolyte for stable low-cost high-rate sodium-ion batteries

Abstract

The demand of sustainable power supply requires high-performance cost-effective energy storage technologies. Here in this paperwe report a high-rate long-life low-cost sodium-ion battery full-cell system by innovating both the anode and the electrolyte. The redox couple of manganese(I/II) in Prussian blue analogs enables a high-rate and stable anode. Soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy and resonant inelastic X-ray scattering provide direct evidence suggesting the existence of monovalent manganese in the charged anode. There is a strong hybridization between cyano ligands and manganese-3d states, which benefits the electronic property for improving rate performance. Additionally, we employ an organic-aqueous cosolvent electrolyte to solve the long-standing solubility issue of Prussian blue analogs. A full-cell sodium-ion battery with low-cost Prussian blue analogs in both electrodes and co-solvent electrolyte retains 95% of its initial discharge capacity after 1000 cycles at 1C and 9 5% depth of discharge. The revealed manganese(I/II) redox couple inspires conceptual innovations of batteries based on atypical oxidation states.

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  1. Alveo Energy, Palo Alto, CA (United States)
  2. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Advanced Light Source (ALS)
  3. New York Univ., New York, NY (United States). Dept. of Physics
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Research Org.:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E); USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program
OSTI Identifier:
1433131
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231; AR00000300; DMR-1420073
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Nature Communications
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 9; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher:
Nature Publishing Group
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
25 ENERGY STORAGE

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Firouzi, Ali, Qiao, Ruimin, Motallebi, Shahrokh, Valencia, Christian W., Israel, Hannah S., Fujimoto, Mai, Wray, L. Andrew, Chuang, Yi-De, Yang, Wanli, and Wessells, Colin D. Monovalent manganese based anodes and co-solvent electrolyte for stable low-cost high-rate sodium-ion batteries. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1038/s41467-018-03257-1.
Firouzi, Ali, Qiao, Ruimin, Motallebi, Shahrokh, Valencia, Christian W., Israel, Hannah S., Fujimoto, Mai, Wray, L. Andrew, Chuang, Yi-De, Yang, Wanli, & Wessells, Colin D. Monovalent manganese based anodes and co-solvent electrolyte for stable low-cost high-rate sodium-ion batteries. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03257-1
Firouzi, Ali, Qiao, Ruimin, Motallebi, Shahrokh, Valencia, Christian W., Israel, Hannah S., Fujimoto, Mai, Wray, L. Andrew, Chuang, Yi-De, Yang, Wanli, and Wessells, Colin D. Wed . "Monovalent manganese based anodes and co-solvent electrolyte for stable low-cost high-rate sodium-ion batteries". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03257-1. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1433131.
@article{osti_1433131,
title = {Monovalent manganese based anodes and co-solvent electrolyte for stable low-cost high-rate sodium-ion batteries},
author = {Firouzi, Ali and Qiao, Ruimin and Motallebi, Shahrokh and Valencia, Christian W. and Israel, Hannah S. and Fujimoto, Mai and Wray, L. Andrew and Chuang, Yi-De and Yang, Wanli and Wessells, Colin D.},
abstractNote = {The demand of sustainable power supply requires high-performance cost-effective energy storage technologies. Here in this paperwe report a high-rate long-life low-cost sodium-ion battery full-cell system by innovating both the anode and the electrolyte. The redox couple of manganese(I/II) in Prussian blue analogs enables a high-rate and stable anode. Soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy and resonant inelastic X-ray scattering provide direct evidence suggesting the existence of monovalent manganese in the charged anode. There is a strong hybridization between cyano ligands and manganese-3d states, which benefits the electronic property for improving rate performance. Additionally, we employ an organic-aqueous cosolvent electrolyte to solve the long-standing solubility issue of Prussian blue analogs. A full-cell sodium-ion battery with low-cost Prussian blue analogs in both electrodes and co-solvent electrolyte retains 95% of its initial discharge capacity after 1000 cycles at 1C and 9 5% depth of discharge. The revealed manganese(I/II) redox couple inspires conceptual innovations of batteries based on atypical oxidation states.},
doi = {10.1038/s41467-018-03257-1},
journal = {Nature Communications},
number = 1,
volume = 9,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Feb 28 00:00:00 EST 2018},
month = {Wed Feb 28 00:00:00 EST 2018}
}

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