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Title: Room-Temperature All-solid-state Rechargeable Sodium-ion Batteries with a Cl-doped Na3PS4 Superionic Conductor

Abstract

All-solid-state sodium-ion batteries are promising candidates for large-scale energy storage applications. The key enabler for an all-solid-state architecture is a sodium solid electrolyte that exhibits high Na+ conductivity at ambient temperatures, as well as excellent phase and electrochemical stability. In this work, we present a first-principles-guided discovery and synthesis of a novel Cl-doped tetragonal Na3PS4 (t-Na3-xPS4-xClx) solid electrolyte with a room-temperature Na(+) conductivity exceeding 1 mS cm(-1). We demonstrate that an all-solid-state TiS2/t-Na3-xPS4-xClx/Na cell utilizing this solid electrolyte can be cycled at room-temperature at a rate of C/10 with a capacity of about 80 mAh g-1 over 10 cycles. We provide evidence from density functional theory calculations that this excellent electrochemical performance is not only due to the high Na(+) conductivity of the solid electrolyte, but also due to the effect that "salting" Na3PS4 has on the formation of an electronically insulating, ionically conducting solid electrolyte interphase.

Authors:
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  1. Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States). Dept. of NanoEngineering
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Research Org.:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC); National Science Foundation (NSF)
OSTI Identifier:
1559138
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231; 1436976; ACI-1053575; ECCS-1542148
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Scientific Reports
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 6; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher:
Nature Publishing Group
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
25 ENERGY STORAGE; 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY

Citation Formats

Chu, Iek-Heng, Kompella, Christopher S., Nguyen, Han, Zhu, Zhuoying, Hy, Sunny, Deng, Zhi, Meng, Ying Shirley, and Ong, Shyue Ping. Room-Temperature All-solid-state Rechargeable Sodium-ion Batteries with a Cl-doped Na3PS4 Superionic Conductor. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1038/srep33733.
Chu, Iek-Heng, Kompella, Christopher S., Nguyen, Han, Zhu, Zhuoying, Hy, Sunny, Deng, Zhi, Meng, Ying Shirley, & Ong, Shyue Ping. Room-Temperature All-solid-state Rechargeable Sodium-ion Batteries with a Cl-doped Na3PS4 Superionic Conductor. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep33733
Chu, Iek-Heng, Kompella, Christopher S., Nguyen, Han, Zhu, Zhuoying, Hy, Sunny, Deng, Zhi, Meng, Ying Shirley, and Ong, Shyue Ping. Tue . "Room-Temperature All-solid-state Rechargeable Sodium-ion Batteries with a Cl-doped Na3PS4 Superionic Conductor". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep33733. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1559138.
@article{osti_1559138,
title = {Room-Temperature All-solid-state Rechargeable Sodium-ion Batteries with a Cl-doped Na3PS4 Superionic Conductor},
author = {Chu, Iek-Heng and Kompella, Christopher S. and Nguyen, Han and Zhu, Zhuoying and Hy, Sunny and Deng, Zhi and Meng, Ying Shirley and Ong, Shyue Ping},
abstractNote = {All-solid-state sodium-ion batteries are promising candidates for large-scale energy storage applications. The key enabler for an all-solid-state architecture is a sodium solid electrolyte that exhibits high Na+ conductivity at ambient temperatures, as well as excellent phase and electrochemical stability. In this work, we present a first-principles-guided discovery and synthesis of a novel Cl-doped tetragonal Na3PS4 (t-Na3-xPS4-xClx) solid electrolyte with a room-temperature Na(+) conductivity exceeding 1 mS cm(-1). We demonstrate that an all-solid-state TiS2/t-Na3-xPS4-xClx/Na cell utilizing this solid electrolyte can be cycled at room-temperature at a rate of C/10 with a capacity of about 80 mAh g-1 over 10 cycles. We provide evidence from density functional theory calculations that this excellent electrochemical performance is not only due to the high Na(+) conductivity of the solid electrolyte, but also due to the effect that "salting" Na3PS4 has on the formation of an electronically insulating, ionically conducting solid electrolyte interphase.},
doi = {10.1038/srep33733},
journal = {Scientific Reports},
number = 1,
volume = 6,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Sep 20 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Tue Sep 20 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}

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Figure 1 Figure 1: Crystal structure of pristine t-Na3PS4. The tetragonal polymorph of the Na3PS4 crystal. There are symmetrically distinct Na sites in t-Na3PS4, Na1 (4d) and Na2 (2a), and the PS4 tetrahedra are centered at the 2b positions.

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