scholarly journals High-Entropy-Stabilized Polyanionic Cathodes with Multiple Redox Reactions for Sodium-Ion Battery Applications

Author(s):  
Huangxu Li ◽  
Ming Xu ◽  
Huiwu Long ◽  
Jingqiang Zheng ◽  
Kuo Yuan ◽  
...  

Abstract High-entropy (HE) materials containing multiple elements have created a growing interest in exploring the property limits of electrodes in energy storage and understanding the underlying chemical/physical mechanisms. Here, we show a substantial improvement in performance of HE-based cathodes in sodium-ion batteries (SIBs). Polyanionic structure has a large compositional flexibility and can incorporate many active transition-metal (TM) species, which is an ideal platform to design HE cathode materials. As a proof of concept, we show that HE sodium superionic conductor (HE-NASICON) materials can be synthesized via a facile sol-gel method. By comparing a group of HE-NASICON cathodes containing different contents of TM species, we demonstrate that the multi-Na-ions intercalation/deintercalation process is highly reversible, whereas capacity and cycling stability are improved. The HE-NASICON cathode with equal molarity of five TM species achieves a high capacity of 161 mA h g−1 and capacity retention of 85% when cycling at a high rate of 5 C over 1000 cycles. In-situ XRD and spherical-aberration-corrected transmission electron microscope (ACTEM) also demonstrate a robust trigonal phase with a volume change of merely 4.07% during the multi-Na-ions storage. These results reveal the effectiveness of HE concept in expediting high-performance polyanionic cathodes for real SIBs applications.

Nanoscale ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 1325-1332 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yongchang Liu ◽  
Hongyan Kang ◽  
Lifang Jiao ◽  
Chengcheng Chen ◽  
Kangzhe Cao ◽  
...  

Designed as a high-performance anode for sodium-ion batteries, exfoliated-SnS2 restacked on graphene was prepared by the hydrolysis of lithiated-SnS2 followed by a facile hydrothermal method.


Nanoscale ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 800-806 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xusheng Wang ◽  
Zhanhai Yang ◽  
Chao Wang ◽  
Luxiang Ma ◽  
Chunsong Zhao ◽  
...  

FeSe@FeS microcapsules are auto-generated through a facile solid-state reaction, ensuring a high-performance sodium-ion half/full battery.


2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (26) ◽  
pp. 17270-17277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yubin Niu ◽  
Maowen Xu ◽  
Chunlong Dai ◽  
Bolei Shen ◽  
Chang Ming Li

Na6.24Fe4.88(P2O7)4 is one of the intensively investigated polyanionic compounds and has shown high rate discharge capacity, but its relatively low electronic conductivity hampers the high performance of the batteries.


Author(s):  
Irshad Mohammad ◽  
Lucie Blondeau ◽  
Eddy Foy ◽  
Jocelyne Leroy ◽  
Eric Leroy ◽  
...  

Following the trends of alloys as negative electrodes for Na-ion batteries, the sodiation of the InSb intermetallic compound was investigated for the first time. The benefit of coupling Sb with...


2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 2916-2921 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Li ◽  
Min Zhou ◽  
Haomiao Li ◽  
Kangli Wang ◽  
Shijie Cheng ◽  
...  

Sulfur-doped disordered carbon exhibits high capacity and excellent cyclability as an anode for sodium ion batteries.


RSC Advances ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (32) ◽  
pp. 17773-17785 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianhua Liu ◽  
Cheng Zhang ◽  
Lei Xu ◽  
Shaohua Ju

Two-dimensional boron synthesized by the chemical vapor deposition method is an atomically thin layer of boron with both light weight and metallicity.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mengjiao Shi ◽  
Su Zhang ◽  
Yuting Jiang ◽  
Zimu Jiang ◽  
Longhai Zhang ◽  
...  

AbstractThe development of lithium–sulfur batteries (LSBs) is restricted by their poor cycle stability and rate performance due to the low conductivity of sulfur and severe shuttle effect. Herein, an N, O co-doped graphene layered block (NOGB) with many dents on the graphene sheets is designed as effective sulfur host for high-performance LSBs. The sulfur platelets are physically confined into the dents and closely contacted with the graphene scaffold, ensuring structural stability and high conductivity. The highly doped N and O atoms can prevent the shuttle effect of sulfur species by strong chemical adsorption. Moreover, the micropores on the graphene sheets enable fast Li+ transport through the blocks. As a result, the obtained NOGB/S composite with 76 wt% sulfur content shows a high capacity of 1413 mAh g−1 at 0.1 C, good rate performance of 433 mAh g−1 at 10 C, and remarkable stability with 526 mAh g−1 at after 1000 cycles at 1 C (average decay rate: 0.038% per cycle). Our design provides a comprehensive route for simultaneously improving the conductivity, ion transport kinetics, and preventing the shuttle effect in LSBs.


2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 2046-2052 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fenqiang Luo ◽  
Xinshu Xia ◽  
Lingxing Zeng ◽  
Xiaochuan Chen ◽  
Xiaoshan Feng ◽  
...  

Highly dispersed ultra-fine few-layer MoS2 embedded on N/P co-doped bio-carbon composite (MoS2-N/P-C) was synthesized and it delivers excellent high-rate long term cycling performance (175 mA h g−1 after 2000 cycles at 5 A g−1).


2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (19) ◽  
pp. 11771-11781 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chengzhi Zhang ◽  
Fei Han ◽  
Jianmin Ma ◽  
Zheng Li ◽  
Fuquan Zhang ◽  
...  

Heterostructure anode material have been developed by engineering internal electric field to boost charge carrier transport for high-rate and high-capacity sodium ion storage.


Nanoscale ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (30) ◽  
pp. 10880-10885 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Yao ◽  
Yu Jiang ◽  
Hai Yang ◽  
Xizhen Sun ◽  
Yan Yu

A facile and simple hydrothermal assisted sol–gel route was developed to prepare nitrogen doped carbon coated Na3V2(PO4)3 nanocomposites (denoted as NVP@C–N) as cathodes for sodium ion batteries (NIBs).


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