A Superior Low-Cost Cathode for a Na-Ion Battery
A Superior Low-Cost Cathode for a Na-Ion Battery
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用于钠离子电池的优质低成本阴极。
DOI:
10.1002/anie.201206854
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发表时间:
2013-01-01
影响因子:
16.6
通讯作者:
Goodenough, John B.
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作者:
Wang, Long;Lu, Yuhao;Goodenough, John B.
A global priority is the development of low-cost, efficient storage of off-peak electric power and of electrical energy generated by energy sources other than fossil fuels (eg wind, solar, nuclear).[1] The rechargeable battery offers efficient electrical energy storage (EES), but the Li-ion battery used in hand-held devices is too expensive for large-scale EES. Unlike Li, Na is readily available worldwide and therefore much less costly than Li. However, the existing Na/S [2] and Zebra (Na/NiCl2)[3] batteries are operating on molten electrodes at 250 to 3508C. Therefore, there is a huge incentive to develop a room-temperature rechargeable, low-cost Na-ion battery (SIB) of high energy density capable of discharge/charge at a high rate.To date, room-temperature rechargeable batteries have used as cathode oxide hosts into/from which the working ion, H+ or Li+, can be inserted/extracted reversibly over a limited solid-solution range. These two working ions are able to be mobile guests in a host having a close-packed oxide-ion array. However, Na+ is too large to be sufficiently mobile in a host with close-packed oxide ions; it needs a host framework with a larger interstitial space. Although Na+ is stable coordinated by 12 oxide ions in an oxoperovskite, for example, the NaxWO3 bronze, too high an activation energy is required for Na+ transfer between these sites across a shared face coordinated by four oxide ions. The O-2p orbitals that σ bond to the Na impede its motion. Replacement of the O2À ions by (CN) À ions weakens bonding to the Na; the activation energy for Na+ transfer is, therefore, strongly reduced, which makes attractive exploration of hexacyanoperovskites as cathode hosts for a rechargeable SIB. We report a synthesis route for a sodium manganese hexacyanoferrate (NMHFC) containing low-cost cations, and we