Sustainability-inspired cell design for a fully recyclable sodium ion battery
Abstract
Large-scale applications of rechargeable batteries consume nonrenewable resources and produce massive amounts of end-of-life wastes, which raise sustainability concerns in terms of manufacturing, environmental, and ecological costs. Therefore, the recyclability and sustainability of a battery should be considered at the design stage by using naturally abundant resources and recyclable battery technology. Herein, we design a fully recyclable rechargeable sodium ion battery with bipolar electrode structure using Na3V2(PO4)3 as an electrode material and aluminum foil as the shared current collector. Such a design allows exceptional sodium ion battery performance in terms of high-power correspondence and long-term stability and enables the recycling of ~ 100% Na3V2(PO4)3 and ~ 99.1% elemental aluminum without the release of toxic wastes, resulting in a solid-component recycling efficiency of >98.0%. The successful incorporation of sustainability into battery design implies that closed-loop recycling and the reutilization of battery materials can be achieved in next-generation energy storage technologies.
- Authors:
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[4]
- Guangdong Univ. of Technology, Guangzhou (China)
- Southwest Univ. of Science and Technology, Mianyang (China)
- Griffith Univ., Brisbane, QLD (Australia)
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); Australian Research Council; USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Vehicle Technologies Office (EE-3V)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1529368
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357; 2016YFB0700600; 51874104
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Nature Communications
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 10; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing Group
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 25 ENERGY STORAGE
Citation Formats
Liu, Tiefeng, Zhang, Yaping, Chen, Chao, Lin, Zhan, Zhang, Shanqing, and Lu, Jun. Sustainability-inspired cell design for a fully recyclable sodium ion battery. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1038/s41467-019-09933-0.
Liu, Tiefeng, Zhang, Yaping, Chen, Chao, Lin, Zhan, Zhang, Shanqing, & Lu, Jun. Sustainability-inspired cell design for a fully recyclable sodium ion battery. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09933-0
Liu, Tiefeng, Zhang, Yaping, Chen, Chao, Lin, Zhan, Zhang, Shanqing, and Lu, Jun. Mon .
"Sustainability-inspired cell design for a fully recyclable sodium ion battery". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09933-0. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1529368.
@article{osti_1529368,
title = {Sustainability-inspired cell design for a fully recyclable sodium ion battery},
author = {Liu, Tiefeng and Zhang, Yaping and Chen, Chao and Lin, Zhan and Zhang, Shanqing and Lu, Jun},
abstractNote = {Large-scale applications of rechargeable batteries consume nonrenewable resources and produce massive amounts of end-of-life wastes, which raise sustainability concerns in terms of manufacturing, environmental, and ecological costs. Therefore, the recyclability and sustainability of a battery should be considered at the design stage by using naturally abundant resources and recyclable battery technology. Herein, we design a fully recyclable rechargeable sodium ion battery with bipolar electrode structure using Na3V2(PO4)3 as an electrode material and aluminum foil as the shared current collector. Such a design allows exceptional sodium ion battery performance in terms of high-power correspondence and long-term stability and enables the recycling of ~ 100% Na3V2(PO4)3 and ~ 99.1% elemental aluminum without the release of toxic wastes, resulting in a solid-component recycling efficiency of >98.0%. The successful incorporation of sustainability into battery design implies that closed-loop recycling and the reutilization of battery materials can be achieved in next-generation energy storage technologies.},
doi = {10.1038/s41467-019-09933-0},
journal = {Nature Communications},
number = 1,
volume = 10,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Apr 29 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Mon Apr 29 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}
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Fig. 1: Design and achievement of bipolar electrode structure. a Schematic of the conventional unipolar electrode structure (one-unit cell). b Schematic of the proposed bipolar electrode structure (two-unit cell). c Linear scanning voltammograms of Al and Cu foils as the cathodes with metallic Na as the anode at 0~5 Vmore »
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