Turning on your P/C: An amorphous phosphorus/carbon (a-P/C) composite was synthesized using simple mechanical ball milling of red phosphorus and conductive carbon powders. This material gave an extraordinarily high sodium ion storage capacity of 1764 mA h g(-1) (see graph) with a very high rate capability, showing great promise as a high capacity and high rate anode material for sodium ion batteries.
We report a low-cost water-in-salt electrolyte (WiSE), of 30 m ZnCl2, which enables a dendrite-free Zn metal anode to possess a high coulombic efficiency.
The
ever-increasing demand for storing renewable energy sources
calls for novel battery technologies that are of sustainably low levelized
energy cost. Research into battery chemistry has evolved to a stage
where a plethora of choices based on earth-abundant elements can be
compared during their development. One of the emerging candidates
is the nonaqueous potassium-ion battery. K-ion’s unique properties
as a charge carrier have aroused intense interest in exploring high-performing
cathode and anode materials for this battery. Rapid progress has been
made, where leading candidates of electrodes have been proposed, i.e.,
hard carbon as anode and Prussian white analogues as cathode. In this
new battery technology’s infancy, it is our opinion that the
focus should be given to potentially scalable, inexpensive electrode
materials and the understanding of their cycle-life-property correlations.
It may be the ultralong cycle life that differentiates potassium-ion
batteries from sodium-ion batteries in the future market.
Prussian blue and its analogues have received particular attention as superior cathodes for Na-ion batteries due to their potential 2-Na storage capacity (∼170 mAh g(-1)) and low cost. However, most of the Prussian blue compounds obtained from the conventional synthetic routes contain large amounts of Fe(CN)6 vacancies and coordinated water molecules, which leads to the collapse of cyano-bridged framework and serious deterioration of their Na-storage ability. Herein, we propose a facile citrate-assisted controlled crystallization method to obtain low-defect Prussian blue lattice with greatly improved Na-storage capacity and cycling stability. As an example, the as-prepared Na2CoFe(CN)6 nanocrystals demonstrate a reversible 2-Na storage reaction with a high specific capacity of 150 mAh g(-1) and a ∼ 90% capacity retention over 200 cycles, possibly serving as a low cost and high performance cathode for Na-ion batteries. In particular, the synthetic strategy described in this work may be extended to other coordination-framework materials for a wide range of energy conversion and storage applications.
Turning on your P/C: An amorphous phosphorus/carbon (a‐P/C) composite was synthesized using simple mechanical ball milling of red phosphorus and conductive carbon powders. This material gave an extraordinarily high sodium ion storage capacity of 1764 mA h g−1 (see graph) with a very high rate capability, showing great promise as a high capacity and high rate anode material for sodium ion batteries.
During the operation of an NH 4 + -ion battery electrode of a bi-layered V 2 O 5 , the charge carrier of NH 4 + migrates through the electrode's lattice in a fashion akin to monkey-bar walking, very different from spherical metal ions. Computation studies reveal that there is a charge transfer from the VO layers to the NH 4 + ions via a robust H bonding, where such H bonding has been revealed by characterization. Interestingly, the results point to a correlation between the H bonding and some rarely seen strong pseudocapacitance.
Aqueous rechargeable batteries are promising solutions for large-scale energy storage. Such batteries have the merit of low cost, innate safety, and environmental friendliness. To date, most known aqueous ion batteries employ metal cation charge carriers. Here, we report the first "rocking-chair" NH -ion battery of the full-cell configuration by employing an ammonium Prussian white analogue, (NH ) Ni[Fe(CN) ] , as the cathode, an organic solid, 3,4,9,10-perylenetetracarboxylic diimide (PTCDI), as the anode, and 1.0 m aqueous (NH ) SO as the electrolyte. This novel aqueous ammonium-ion battery demonstrates encouraging electrochemical performance: an average operation voltage of ca. 1.0 V, an attractive energy density of ca. 43 Wh kg based on both electrodes' active mass, and excellent cycle life over 1000 cycles with 67 % capacity retention. Importantly, the topochemistry results of NH in these electrodes point to a new paradigm of NH -based energy storage.
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