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Title: Negligible voltage hysteresis with strong anionic redox in conventional battery electrode

Abstract

Lattice anionic (oxygen) redox reactions (ARR) offers opportunities for developing high-capacity batteries, however, often suffers the notoriously high hysteresis in voltages and low initial coulombic efficiency. Particularly, ARR was widely considered inherent to these kinetic issues. Here, unambiguous evidences of strong and reversible ARR is found in Na2/3Ni1/3Mn2/3O2 through mapping of resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (mRIXS). Strikingly, the material displays negligible voltage hysteresis (0.1 V) and high initial coulombic efficiency with a highly stable electrochemical profile. Our independent analysis of the Ni, Mn and O states consistently interpret the redox mechanism of Na2/3Ni1/3Mn2/3O2, which reveals a strong ARR system with facile kinetics and highly stable electrochemical profile that previously found only in cationic redox systems of conventional non-Alkali-rich materials.

Authors:
 [1];  [2]; ORCiD logo [3];  [4];  [4];  [4]; ORCiD logo [5]; ORCiD logo [6];  [7];  [6]
  1. Tianjin Normal University (China); Northeastern University, Shenyang (China); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Advanced Light Source (ALS)
  2. Zhengzhou University (China)
  3. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Advanced Light Source (ALS); Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School (China)
  4. Tianjin Normal University (China)
  5. Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School (China)
  6. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Advanced Light Source (ALS)
  7. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Energy Storage and Distributed Resources Division
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Advanced Light Source (ALS)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
OSTI Identifier:
1775399
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1780158
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231; 51604244; 001802003; ZHD201605
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Nano Energy
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 74; Journal ID: ISSN 2211-2855
Publisher:
Elsevier
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
25 ENERGY STORAGE

Citation Formats

Dai, Kehua, Mao, Jing, Zhuo, Zengqing, Feng, Yan, Mao, Wenfeng, Ai, Guo, Pan, Feng, Chuang, Yi-de, Liu, Gao, and Yang, Wanli. Negligible voltage hysteresis with strong anionic redox in conventional battery electrode. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1016/j.nanoen.2020.104831.
Dai, Kehua, Mao, Jing, Zhuo, Zengqing, Feng, Yan, Mao, Wenfeng, Ai, Guo, Pan, Feng, Chuang, Yi-de, Liu, Gao, & Yang, Wanli. Negligible voltage hysteresis with strong anionic redox in conventional battery electrode. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2020.104831
Dai, Kehua, Mao, Jing, Zhuo, Zengqing, Feng, Yan, Mao, Wenfeng, Ai, Guo, Pan, Feng, Chuang, Yi-de, Liu, Gao, and Yang, Wanli. Sat . "Negligible voltage hysteresis with strong anionic redox in conventional battery electrode". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2020.104831. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1775399.
@article{osti_1775399,
title = {Negligible voltage hysteresis with strong anionic redox in conventional battery electrode},
author = {Dai, Kehua and Mao, Jing and Zhuo, Zengqing and Feng, Yan and Mao, Wenfeng and Ai, Guo and Pan, Feng and Chuang, Yi-de and Liu, Gao and Yang, Wanli},
abstractNote = {Lattice anionic (oxygen) redox reactions (ARR) offers opportunities for developing high-capacity batteries, however, often suffers the notoriously high hysteresis in voltages and low initial coulombic efficiency. Particularly, ARR was widely considered inherent to these kinetic issues. Here, unambiguous evidences of strong and reversible ARR is found in Na2/3Ni1/3Mn2/3O2 through mapping of resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (mRIXS). Strikingly, the material displays negligible voltage hysteresis (0.1 V) and high initial coulombic efficiency with a highly stable electrochemical profile. Our independent analysis of the Ni, Mn and O states consistently interpret the redox mechanism of Na2/3Ni1/3Mn2/3O2, which reveals a strong ARR system with facile kinetics and highly stable electrochemical profile that previously found only in cationic redox systems of conventional non-Alkali-rich materials.},
doi = {10.1016/j.nanoen.2020.104831},
journal = {Nano Energy},
number = ,
volume = 74,
place = {United States},
year = {Sat Apr 25 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Sat Apr 25 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}

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