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Neveu A, Jean J, Boullay P, Kovrugin VM, Sagot A, Raj H, Pralong V. A 3Ti 5NbO 14 (A = H, Li and K) family: ionic exchange, physical and electrochemical properties. Dalton Trans 2024; 53:7115-7122. [PMID: 38568014 DOI: 10.1039/d4dt00208c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/24/2024]
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A new layered titanoniobate, Li3Ti5NbO14, a member of the AxM2nO4n+2 family, has been synthesized using a molten salt reaction between H3Ti5NbO14 and an eutectic mixture of LiOH and LiNO3. This compound crystallizes in the P21/m space group with a = 9.273(15) Å, b = 3.788(6) Å, c = 8.871(3) Å, and β = 114.33(1)°, as determined by 3D electron diffraction single crystal analysis. It exhibits [Ti5NbO14]3- layers similar to K3Ti5NbO14, but differs from the latter by a 'parallel configuration' of its [Ti5NbO5]3- ribbons between the two successive layers. The topotactic character of the reaction suggests that exfoliation plays a prominent role in the synthesis of this new form. This new phase intercalates reversibly 2 lithium through a first-order transformation leading to a capacity of 100 mA h g-1 at a potential of 1.67 V vs. Li/Li+.
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- Audric Neveu
- Normandie Univ, ENSICAEN, Unicaen, CNRS, CRISMAT, 14000 Caen, France.
- Réseau sur le Stockage Electrochimique de l'Énergie (RS2E), 80000 Amiens, France
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- Normandie Univ, ENSICAEN, Unicaen, CNRS, CRISMAT, 14000 Caen, France.
- Réseau sur le Stockage Electrochimique de l'Énergie (RS2E), 80000 Amiens, France
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- Normandie Univ, ENSICAEN, Unicaen, CNRS, CRISMAT, 14000 Caen, France.
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- Normandie Univ, ENSICAEN, Unicaen, CNRS, CRISMAT, 14000 Caen, France.
- Réseau sur le Stockage Electrochimique de l'Énergie (RS2E), 80000 Amiens, France
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- Normandie Univ, ENSICAEN, Unicaen, CNRS, CRISMAT, 14000 Caen, France.
- Réseau sur le Stockage Electrochimique de l'Énergie (RS2E), 80000 Amiens, France
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- Normandie Univ, ENSICAEN, Unicaen, CNRS, CRISMAT, 14000 Caen, France.
- Réseau sur le Stockage Electrochimique de l'Énergie (RS2E), 80000 Amiens, France
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- Normandie Univ, ENSICAEN, Unicaen, CNRS, CRISMAT, 14000 Caen, France.
- Réseau sur le Stockage Electrochimique de l'Énergie (RS2E), 80000 Amiens, France
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Green AJ, Driscoll EH, Lakhdar Y, Kendrick E, Slater PR. Structural and electrochemical insights into novel Wadsley Roth Nb 7Ti 1.5Mo 1.5O 25 and Ta 7Ti 1.5Mo 1.5O 25 anodes for Li-ion battery application. Dalton Trans 2023; 52:13110-13118. [PMID: 37675851 DOI: 10.1039/d3dt02144k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/08/2023]
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Niobium based anodes are gaining increasing popularity for application in high-power lithium-ion batteries, due to their high theoretical capacities, inherent safety at high current densities, and long-term stability. Here, we report the discovery and characterisation of a new Wadsley Roth niobate system, Nb7Ti1.5Mo1.5O25, showing that it is isostructural with known systems: Nb9PO25 and Nb9VO25. To evaluate the material's electrochemical performance, including performance at high current densities (for potential high power applications), and long-term stability, Li half-coin cells were prepared. The material showed an initial capacity of 268(9) mA h g-1 at 0.01 A g-1 (voltage range of 2.5-1.0 V). However, in subsequent cycles, some of this initial capacity is lost, which is attributed to Li trapping associated with the presence of reducible MoO4 units, similar to the situation observed for isostructural Nb9VO25. After this initial irreversible capacity loss, the material showed good performance at high current density rates, such that at 2 A g-1 and 4 A g-1 respective capacities of 132(10) mA h g-1 and 115(14) mA g-1 were delivered. Moreover, the material showed respectable capacity retention (97%) after being cycled for 100 cycles at 0.2 A g-1. In order to identify the different Nb, Ti, Mo redox couples involved in this system, a Ta analogue was also synthesized (Ta7Ti1.5Mo1.5O25) and the electrochemical performance for this phase is also reported. This phase shows a lower initial capacity at 0.01 A g-1 (140(3) mA h g-1) than the Nb analogue in the same voltage range, which can be increased (225 mA h g-1) if a lower cutoff voltage (0.5 V) is applied. The capacity retention for this Ta system after 100 cycles at 0.2 A g-1 is similar to the Nb analogue (97%). Further work has explored whether the Nb-Ti-Mo contents could be varied, and these results showed that single phase Nb10-2xTixMoxO25 samples could be prepared for 1.5 ≤ x ≤ 1.75, and electrochemical testing results for the x = 1.75 endmember are also reported. Overall, this research highlights the synthesis and electrochemical characterisation of two new Wadsley Roth phases, and further highlights the challenges associated with the presence of reducible cations in tetrahedral sites in such structures with respect to minimising initial irreversible capacity loss.
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- A J Green
- School of Chemistry, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK.
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- School of Metallurgy and Materials, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2SE, UK
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- School of Metallurgy and Materials, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2SE, UK
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- School of Metallurgy and Materials, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2SE, UK
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- School of Chemistry, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK.
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Han S, Zhang X, Song Q, Zhou B, Fan S. Screening of electrode materials for ammonium ion batteries by high throughput calculation. RSC Adv 2023; 13:6548-6556. [PMID: 36845595 PMCID: PMC9951187 DOI: 10.1039/d3ra00284e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2023] [Accepted: 02/17/2023] [Indexed: 02/28/2023] Open
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Ammonium-ion batteries (AIBs) have attracted intense interest lately as promising energy storage systems due to their light weight, safe, inexpensive, and widely available advantages. It is of great significance to find a fast ammonium ion conductor for the electrode of AIBs that directly affects the electrochemical performance of the battery. Using high-throughput bond-valence calculation, we screened the electrode materials of AIBs with a low diffusion barrier from more than 8000 compounds in the ICSD database. Twenty-seven candidate materials were finally identified by the bond-valence sum method and density functional theory. Their electrochemical properties were further analyzed. Our results, which give the relationship between the structure and electrochemical properties of various important electrode materials which are suitable for AIBs development, may pave the way for next-generation energy storage systems.
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- Sheqiang Han
- Institute of Modern Physics, Shaanxi Key Laboratory for Theoretical Physics Frontiers, Northwest University Xi'an Shaanxi 710069 People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Shaanxi Key Laboratory for Theoretical Physics Frontiers, Northwest University Xi'an Shaanxi 710069 People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Shaanxi Key Laboratory for Theoretical Physics Frontiers, Northwest University Xi'an Shaanxi 710069 People's Republic of China
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- Institute of Modern Physics, Shaanxi Key Laboratory for Theoretical Physics Frontiers, Northwest University Xi'an Shaanxi 710069 People's Republic of China
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- Science and Technology on Thermostructural Composite Materials Laboratory, Northwestern Polytechnical University Xi'an Shaanxi 710072 People's Republic of China
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Sui Y, Guan J, Li K, Feng Y, Peng S, Maximov MY, Liu Q, Yang J, Geng H. Synergy of oxygen defects and structural modulation on titanium niobium oxide with a constructed conductive network for high-rate lithium-ion half/full batteries. Inorg Chem Front 2023. [DOI: 10.1039/d3qi00182b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/05/2023]
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Titanium niobium oxide as an electrode material for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) has relatively high working potential and theoretical capacity, which is expected to replace a graphite anode.
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- Yangyang Sui
- School of Materials Engineering, Changshu Institute of Technology, Changshu, Jiangsu 215500, China
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- School of Materials Engineering, Changshu Institute of Technology, Changshu, Jiangsu 215500, China
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- School of Materials Engineering, Changshu Institute of Technology, Changshu, Jiangsu 215500, China
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- School of Materials Engineering, Changshu Institute of Technology, Changshu, Jiangsu 215500, China
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- College of Materials Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China
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- Peter the Great Saint-Petersburg Polytechnic University, 195251 Saint Petersburg, Russia
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- School of Materials Engineering, Changshu Institute of Technology, Changshu, Jiangsu 215500, China
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- School of Material Science and Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, Zhenjiang, 212003, China
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- School of Materials Engineering, Changshu Institute of Technology, Changshu, Jiangsu 215500, China
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Miranda J, Le Calvez E, Retoux R, Crosnier O, Brousse T. Revisiting Rb2TiNb6O18 as electrode materials for energy storage devices. Electrochem commun 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.elecom.2022.107249] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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