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Newly developed composite may enable high effective energy storage

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December 16, 2021
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Sodium-ion batteries are an exciting alternative for post-lithium energy storage, while their anode materials of high performance are still limited. Phosphorus-based materials enable high-capacity anodes for sodium-ion batteries, but often face poor performance retentions owing to low conductivity and large volume expansion. To produce a cost-effective sodium-ion battery, researchers based at the Beijing University of Technology, have synthesized a series of P-/Sn-based composites that serves as high-capacity and high-stability anode materials, enabling a full battery that retains a capacity retention of 97.7% after 50 cycles.

Advanced composite anode for sodium-ion batteries

Credit: Haijun Yu, Beijing University of Technology

Sodium-ion batteries are an exciting alternative for post-lithium energy storage, while their anode materials of high performance are still limited. Phosphorus-based materials enable high-capacity anodes for sodium-ion batteries, but often face poor performance retentions owing to low conductivity and large volume expansion. To produce a cost-effective sodium-ion battery, researchers based at the Beijing University of Technology, have synthesized a series of P-/Sn-based composites that serves as high-capacity and high-stability anode materials, enabling a full battery that retains a capacity retention of 97.7% after 50 cycles.

 

The researchers, led by Haijun Yu, professor in the Institute of Advanced Battery Materials and Devices, Faculty of Materials and Manufacturing at Beijing University of Technology, effectively tailor the architectures of components in the P-/Sn-based composites for high stability by the facile and low-cost one-step ball milling. They published their approach on 1 October in the Energy Material Advances.

 

“Considering the high abundance and low cost of sodium resources, sodium-ion batteries are expected to be a vital alternative to the extensively used lithium-ion batteries”, according to the leading corresponding author Haijun Yu, professor at the Beijing University of Technology. High-capacity anode materials, e.g., phosphorus, have gained wide attentions as for their high theoretical capacities, low discharge voltages, and low costs, Yu said. “However, phosphorus often suffers from large volume expansions, leading to many problems, such as structural collapse, particle pulverization, and thus rapid performance decay. It is thus essential to buffer these problems by appropriately alloying with other elements such as tin and constructing well-designed microstructures.”

 

“The development of low volume expansion and long cycle stable phosphorus-based composite anode materials has become an urgent issue”, Yu said, “it is of great significance to develop cost-effective and scalable approaches to elegantly adjust the microstructures of composites to eliminate their drawbacks.” In their paper, a series of P-/Sn-based composites have been synthesized by the facile and low-cost one-step ball milling. An optimal structure comprising of crystalline nanodomains such as Sn4P3, and Sn embedded and separated in an amorphous phosphorus matrix is thus realized. This architecture hinders the aggregation of metallic Sn-based particles and improves the conductivity of amorphous phosphorus, thereby improving the efficiency of electrochemical reactions. Moreover, owing to the small size of crystalline domains and amorphous nature of phosphorus, the volume expansion induced particle collapse is suppressed, enabling the material with high stability.

 

Another challenge for such highly disordered composite anode materials is how to gain local structure information of diverse microstructures by average means, that is, probing macroscopic amounts of materials rather than testing a very limited region. Pair distribution function, PDF for short, is newly introduced here as a hardcore quantitative technique to elucidate their structures combined with other techniques, suggesting the formation and ratios of Sn4P3 and Sn crystalline domains embedded inside the amorphous matrix.

 

The PDF is a powerful characterization technique, which can not only provide local structure information for complicated systems but also quantify the components in ordered or even disordered materials. Li and Huang noted that the team also innovated new approaches, including using atom PDF for the first time to quantitatively analyze the structure and proportion of SnPx crystalline domains.

 

Sodium-ion batteries are expected to be a vital alternative to the extensively used lithium-ion batteries by considering the high abundance and low cost of sodium resources, according to the first author, Baixu Chen. On his survey of electrode materials for sodium-ion batteries, phosphorus and tin are chosen because of their high theoretical capacities, low discharge voltages, and low costs. “The study sheds light on the rational design and concrete identification of P-/Sn-based amorphous-dominant composite materials for sodium-ion batteries”, Chen said.

 

The researchers noted that the study well adjusts and identifies the components and microstructures of P-/Sn-based anode materials, providing insights into the design of high-performance anode materials for sodium-ion batteries.

 

Contributors include Baixu Chen, Yubo Yang, Xu Zhang, Jaffer Saddique, and Haijun Yu at Beijing University of Technology; and Aibing Chen at Hebei University of Science and Technology; Mingxue Tang, Center for High Pressure Science & Technology Advanced Research

 

The Beijing Natural Science Foundation (JQ19003), National Natural Science

Foundation of China (21975006, 21875007, 22075007, U19A2018, and 51802009), National Key R&D Program of China (2018YFB0104302), and Beijing Youth Scholar (PXM2021_014204_000023) supported this work.

 

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Reference

Authors: Baixu Chen,1,2,3 Yubo Yang,1,2 Aibing Chen,3 Xu Zhang,1,2 Jaffer Saddique,1,2,4 Mingxue Tang,5 and Haijun Yu1,2

Title of original paper: Sodium-Ion Battery Anode Construction with SnPx Crystal Domain in Amorphous Phosphorus Matrix

Journal: Energy Material Advances

DOI: 10.34133/2021/9795825

Affiliations:

1Institute of Advanced Battery Materials and Devices, Faculty of Materials and Manufacturing, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China

2Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Materials, Ministry of Education, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China

3College of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Hebei University of Science and Technology, Shijiazhuang 050018, China

4College of Materials Science & Technology, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Materials and Technology for Energy Conversion, Nanjing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China

5Center for High Pressure Science & Technology Advanced Research, Beijing 100094, China

About Dr. Haijun Yu

Haijun Yu is a full professor at Beijing University of Technology. He gained his Ph.D. in Metallurgy Engineering from Northeastern University in 2007. Then, he worked as a senior engineer at General Research Institute for Nonferrous Metals (GRINM) of China from 2007 to 2010. He then joined at National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan, until 2015. His research interests include advanced electrode materials for lithium/sodium-ion batteries, solid-state batteries, and new secondary batteries.



Journal

Energy Material Advances

DOI

10.34133/2021/9795825

Method of Research

Experimental study

Subject of Research

Not applicable

Article Title

Sodium-Ion Battery Anode Construction with SnPx Crystal Domain in Amorphous Phosphorus Matrix

Article Publication Date

1-Oct-2021

COI Statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest regarding the publication of this article.

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