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Title: Suppressing the Voltage Decay of Low-Cost P2-Type Iron Based Cathode Materials for Sodium-ion Batteries

Abstract

Rechargeable sodium-ion batteries with earth abundant Fe/Mn based cathodes are promising choice for grid-scale applications. However, the important candidate, P2-type Fe based materials suffer from server voltage decay during battery operation, which is due to the Fe3+ migration to the neighboring tetrahedral sites. Two Fe based layered oxides Na0.7[Cu0.15Fe0.3Mn0.55]O2 and Na0.7[Cu0.2Fe0.2Mn0.6]O2 have been prepared. With the combination of in-situ XRD, X-ray PDF, hard and soft X-ray absorption, we demonstrate that the voltage decay in Fe based layered oxides comes from a dynamic origin. Dramatic phase transition can be triggered by higher upper voltage limit and partially irreversible Fe migration lead to voltage fade. With excess Cu doping into crystal lattice, Fe migration can be much mitigated and structural stability can therefore be maintained. Furthermore, Cu introduction brings about extra capacity via the correlation between transition metals elements and ligand oxygen, which may well compensate capacity loss from inert impurity doping. Finally, possible strategies for suppressing the detrimental voltage decay in battery cathodes can be proposed accordingly.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [4];  [4];  [3];  [4];  [4];  [4];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [4]
  1. Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China). Key Lab. for Renewable Energy. Beijing Key Lab. for New Energy Materials and Devices. Beijing National Lab. for Condensed Matter Physics. Inst. of Physics; Univ. of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (China). School of Physical Sciences; Inner Mongolia Univ., Hohhot (China). Key Lab. of Semiconductor Photovoltaic Technology of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. School of Physical Science and Technology
  2. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Advanced Light Source
  3. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
  4. Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China). Key Lab. for Renewable Energy. Beijing Key Lab. for New Energy Materials and Devices. Beijing National Lab. for Condensed Matter Physics. Inst. of Physics; Univ. of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (China). School of Physical Sciences
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Research Org.:
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Vehicle Technologies Office; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Key Technologies R&D Program (China); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission (China)
OSTI Identifier:
1476275
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1767426
Report Number(s):
BNL-209143-2018-JAAM; BNL-221091-2021-JAAM
Journal ID: ISSN 2050-7488
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0012704; AC02-05CH11231; 2016YFB0901500; 51725206; 51421002; 51822211; Z181100004718008
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of Materials Chemistry. A
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 6; Journal Issue: 42; Journal ID: ISSN 2050-7488
Publisher:
Royal Society of Chemistry
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE

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Xu, Shuyin, Wu, Jinpeng, Hu, Enyuan, Li, Qinghao, Zhang, Jienan, Wang, Yi, Stavitski, Eli, Jiang, Liwei, Rong, Xiaohui, Yu, Xiqian, Yang, Wanli, Yang, Xiao-Qing, Chen, Liquan, and Hu, Yong-Sheng. Suppressing the Voltage Decay of Low-Cost P2-Type Iron Based Cathode Materials for Sodium-ion Batteries. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1039/C8TA07933A.
Xu, Shuyin, Wu, Jinpeng, Hu, Enyuan, Li, Qinghao, Zhang, Jienan, Wang, Yi, Stavitski, Eli, Jiang, Liwei, Rong, Xiaohui, Yu, Xiqian, Yang, Wanli, Yang, Xiao-Qing, Chen, Liquan, & Hu, Yong-Sheng. Suppressing the Voltage Decay of Low-Cost P2-Type Iron Based Cathode Materials for Sodium-ion Batteries. United States. https://doi.org/10.1039/C8TA07933A
Xu, Shuyin, Wu, Jinpeng, Hu, Enyuan, Li, Qinghao, Zhang, Jienan, Wang, Yi, Stavitski, Eli, Jiang, Liwei, Rong, Xiaohui, Yu, Xiqian, Yang, Wanli, Yang, Xiao-Qing, Chen, Liquan, and Hu, Yong-Sheng. Mon . "Suppressing the Voltage Decay of Low-Cost P2-Type Iron Based Cathode Materials for Sodium-ion Batteries". United States. https://doi.org/10.1039/C8TA07933A. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1476275.
@article{osti_1476275,
title = {Suppressing the Voltage Decay of Low-Cost P2-Type Iron Based Cathode Materials for Sodium-ion Batteries},
author = {Xu, Shuyin and Wu, Jinpeng and Hu, Enyuan and Li, Qinghao and Zhang, Jienan and Wang, Yi and Stavitski, Eli and Jiang, Liwei and Rong, Xiaohui and Yu, Xiqian and Yang, Wanli and Yang, Xiao-Qing and Chen, Liquan and Hu, Yong-Sheng},
abstractNote = {Rechargeable sodium-ion batteries with earth abundant Fe/Mn based cathodes are promising choice for grid-scale applications. However, the important candidate, P2-type Fe based materials suffer from server voltage decay during battery operation, which is due to the Fe3+ migration to the neighboring tetrahedral sites. Two Fe based layered oxides Na0.7[Cu0.15Fe0.3Mn0.55]O2 and Na0.7[Cu0.2Fe0.2Mn0.6]O2 have been prepared. With the combination of in-situ XRD, X-ray PDF, hard and soft X-ray absorption, we demonstrate that the voltage decay in Fe based layered oxides comes from a dynamic origin. Dramatic phase transition can be triggered by higher upper voltage limit and partially irreversible Fe migration lead to voltage fade. With excess Cu doping into crystal lattice, Fe migration can be much mitigated and structural stability can therefore be maintained. Furthermore, Cu introduction brings about extra capacity via the correlation between transition metals elements and ligand oxygen, which may well compensate capacity loss from inert impurity doping. Finally, possible strategies for suppressing the detrimental voltage decay in battery cathodes can be proposed accordingly.},
doi = {10.1039/C8TA07933A},
journal = {Journal of Materials Chemistry. A},
number = 42,
volume = 6,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Sep 24 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Mon Sep 24 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}

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Figure 1 Figure 1: Structure of Na0.7[CuxFeyMn1-x-y]O2. X-ray diffraction patterns and Rietveld refinements of the as-prepared a) Na0.7[Cu0.15Fe0.30Mn0.55]O2 and b) Na0.7[Cu0.20Fe0.20Mn0.60]O2 samples. The black (red) line represents the experimental (calculated) data. The residual discrepancy is shown in blue.Schematic illustration of the P2-typed layered structure viewed along c) the [010] direction and d)more » the [001] direction.« less

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