Insertion compounds and composites made by ball milling for advanced sodium-ion batteries

Biao Zhang (1, 2) , Romain Dugas (2, 1) , Gwenaelle Rousse (2, 1, 3) , Patrick Rozier (4, 1) , Artem M. Abakumov (5, 6) , Jean‐marie Tarascon (2, 1, 3)

1 RS2E - Réseau sur le stockage électrochimique de l'énergie
2 Collège de France - Chaire Chimie du solide et énergie
3 UPMC - Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6
4 CIRIMAT - Centre interuniversitaire de recherche et d'ingenierie des matériaux
5 Skoltech - Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology [Moscow]
6 EMAT, University of Antwerp

Sodium-ion batteries have been considered as potential candidates for stationary energy storage because of the low cost and wide availability of Na sources. However, their future commercialization depends critically on control over the solid electrolyte interface formation, as well as the degree of sodiation at the positive electrode. Here we report an easily scalable ball milling approach, which relies on the use of metallic sodium, to prepare a variety of sodium-based alloys, insertion layered oxides and polyanionic compounds having sodium in excess such as the Na 4 V 2 (PO 4) 2 F 3 phase. The practical benefits of preparing sodium-enriched positive electrodes as reservoirs to compensate for sodium loss during solid elec-trolyte interphase formation are demonstrated by assembling full C/P 0 2-Na 1 [Fe 0.5 Mn 0.5 ]O 2 and C/'Na 3 þ x V 2 (PO 4) 2 F 3 ' sodium-ion cells that show substantial increases (410%) in energy storage density. Our findings may offer electrode design principles for accelerating the development of the sodium-ion technology.

Domaines: Chimie

Biao Zhang, Romain Dugas, Gwenaelle Rousse, Patrick Rozier, Artem M. Abakumov, et al.. Insertion compounds and composites made by ball milling for advanced sodium-ion batteries. Nature Communications, 2016, 7, pp.10308. ⟨10.1038/ncomms10308⟩. ⟨hal-01276328⟩