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Title: Higher energy and safer sodium ion batteries via an electrochemically made disordered Na3V2(PO4)2F3 material

Abstract

The growing need to store an increasing amount of renewable energy in a sustainable way has rekindled interest for sodium-ion battery technology, owing to the natural abundance of sodium. Presently, sodium-ion batteries based on Na3V2(PO4)2F3/C are the subject of intense research focused on improving the energy density by harnessing the third sodium, which has so far been reported to be electrochemically inaccessible. Here, we are able to trigger the activity of the third sodium electrochemically via the formation of a disordered NaxV2(PO4)2F3 phase of tetragonal symmetry (I4/mmm space group). This phase can reversibly uptake 3 sodium ions per formula unit over the 1 to 4.8 V voltage range, with the last one being re-inserted at 1.6 V vs Na+/Na0. We track the sodium-driven structural/charge compensation mechanism associated to the new phase and find that it remains disordered on cycling while its average vanadium oxidation state varies from 3 to 4.5. Full sodium-ion cells based on this phase as positive electrode and carbon as negative electrode show a 10–20% increase in the overall energy density.

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [5];  [1];  [6];  [2]
  1. Collège de France, Paris (France). Solid-Energy Chemistry; Research Network on Electrochemical Energy Storage (RS2E), Amiens (France)
  2. Collège de France, Paris (France). Solid-Energy Chemistry; Research Network on Electrochemical Energy Storage (RS2E), Amiens (France); Sorbonne Univ., Paris (France)
  3. Collège de France, Paris (France). Solid-Energy Chemistry
  4. Research Network on Electrochemical Energy Storage (RS2E), Amiens (France); Univ. of Orléans (France)
  5. Univ. of Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens (France)
  6. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); College de France, Paris (France); Research Network on Electrochemical Energy Storage (RS2E), Amiens (France)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC); European Research Council (ERC); National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) (France)
OSTI Identifier:
1505146
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-06CH11357; 670116-ARPEMA
Resource Type:
Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Nature Communications
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 10; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher:
Nature Publishing Group
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
25 ENERGY STORAGE; materials for energy and catalysis; materials science

Citation Formats

Yan, Guochun, Mariyappan, Sathiya, Rousse, Gwenaelle, Jacquet, Quentin, Deschamps, Michael, David, Renald, Mirvaux, Boris, Freeland, John William, and Tarascon, Jean-Marie. Higher energy and safer sodium ion batteries via an electrochemically made disordered Na3V2(PO4)2F3 material. United States: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1038/s41467-019-08359-y.
Yan, Guochun, Mariyappan, Sathiya, Rousse, Gwenaelle, Jacquet, Quentin, Deschamps, Michael, David, Renald, Mirvaux, Boris, Freeland, John William, & Tarascon, Jean-Marie. Higher energy and safer sodium ion batteries via an electrochemically made disordered Na3V2(PO4)2F3 material. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08359-y
Yan, Guochun, Mariyappan, Sathiya, Rousse, Gwenaelle, Jacquet, Quentin, Deschamps, Michael, David, Renald, Mirvaux, Boris, Freeland, John William, and Tarascon, Jean-Marie. 2019. "Higher energy and safer sodium ion batteries via an electrochemically made disordered Na3V2(PO4)2F3 material". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08359-y. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1505146.
@article{osti_1505146,
title = {Higher energy and safer sodium ion batteries via an electrochemically made disordered Na3V2(PO4)2F3 material},
author = {Yan, Guochun and Mariyappan, Sathiya and Rousse, Gwenaelle and Jacquet, Quentin and Deschamps, Michael and David, Renald and Mirvaux, Boris and Freeland, John William and Tarascon, Jean-Marie},
abstractNote = {The growing need to store an increasing amount of renewable energy in a sustainable way has rekindled interest for sodium-ion battery technology, owing to the natural abundance of sodium. Presently, sodium-ion batteries based on Na3V2(PO4)2F3/C are the subject of intense research focused on improving the energy density by harnessing the third sodium, which has so far been reported to be electrochemically inaccessible. Here, we are able to trigger the activity of the third sodium electrochemically via the formation of a disordered NaxV2(PO4)2F3 phase of tetragonal symmetry (I4/mmm space group). This phase can reversibly uptake 3 sodium ions per formula unit over the 1 to 4.8 V voltage range, with the last one being re-inserted at 1.6 V vs Na+/Na0. We track the sodium-driven structural/charge compensation mechanism associated to the new phase and find that it remains disordered on cycling while its average vanadium oxidation state varies from 3 to 4.5. Full sodium-ion cells based on this phase as positive electrode and carbon as negative electrode show a 10–20% increase in the overall energy density.},
doi = {10.1038/s41467-019-08359-y},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1505146}, journal = {Nature Communications},
issn = {2041-1723},
number = ,
volume = 10,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Feb 04 00:00:00 EST 2019},
month = {Mon Feb 04 00:00:00 EST 2019}
}

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Figure 1 Figure 1: Electrochemical characterization of NVPF samples in NVPF/Na half cells at a current of C/10 and cycled between 4.4 and 3.0 V. The first charge process alone is controlled by limiting the amount of Na+ extracted (Δx= 2.0, 2.25, 2.50, 2.75, and 3.0). a Voltage-composition curves (left) and theirmore » corresponding dQ/dV curves (right). b The corresponding capacity retention plots« less

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