Probing Transition Metal Migration in Cathode Materials for Na-ion Batteries with Neutron PDF

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Sodium layered oxides as cathode for Na-ion battery could exceed the energy density offered by Li-ion cathode thanks to two main advantages: (i) the activation of Fe3+/Fe4+ in Na2/3Fe1/2Mn1/2O2 and (ii) Oxygen redox without Oxygen loss in Na2/3Mn2/3Mg1/3O2. However those materials suffer from capacity/voltage fade or huge voltage hysteresis that limit their practical interest. We managed to combine those advantages while preventing their drawbacks in Na2/3(Mg,Mn,Fe)O2. The origin of such improvements is probably nested in the transition metal migration during (dis)charge. As neutron source offers a very good contrast between Fe/Mn/Mg and Na (contrarily to X-rays) and PDF is able to solve the short/medium range structure of those defected materials, neutron PDF appears to the only technique able to unambiguously reveal the transition metal migration during cycling.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.RB1910326-2
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/101269513
Provenance
Creator Dr Matthew Roberts; Dr Edouard BOIVIN; Dr Helen Playford; Professor Peter Bruce
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2022
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Chemistry; Natural Sciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2019-07-18T07:30:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2019-07-19T08:34:36Z