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Hierarchical sodium-rich Prussian blue hollow nanospheres as high-performance cathode for sodium-ion batteries

Xiao Tang1, Hao Liu1, Dawei Su1, Peter H. L. Notten2,3, Guoxiu Wang1( )
Center for Clean Energy TechnologyFaculty of ScienceUniversity of Technology SydneySydneyNSW2007Australia
Department of Chemical Engineering and ChemistryEindhoven University of TechnologyEindhoven, 5600 MBThe Netherlands
Fundamental Electrochemistry (IEK9)Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, D-52425Germany
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Recently, Prussian blue and its analogues (PBAs) have attracted tremendous attention as cathode materials for sodium-ion batteries because of their good cycling performance, low cost, and environmental friendliness. However, they still suffer from kinetic problems associated with the solid-state diffusion of sodium ions during charge and discharge processes, which leads to low specific capacity and poor rate performances. In this work, novel sodium iron hexacyanoferrate nanospheres with a hierarchical hollow architecture have been fabricated as cathode material for sodium-ion batteries by a facile template method. Due to the unique hollow sphere morphology, sodium iron hexacyanoferrate nanospheres can provide large numbers of active sites and high diffusion dynamics for sodium ions, thus delivering a high specific capacity (142 mAh/g), a superior rate capability, and an excellent cycling stability. Furthermore, the sodium insertion/extraction mechanism has been studied by in situ X-ray diffraction, which provides further insight into the crystal structure change of the sodium iron hexacyanoferrate nanosphere cathode material during charge and discharge processes.

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sodium-richsodium iron hexacyanoferratehollow nanospherescathodesodium-ion batteries

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Nano Research
Volume 11 Issue 8,
August 2018
Pages 3979-3990
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-018-1979-y
Cite this article:
Tang X, Liu H, Su D, et al. Hierarchical sodium-rich Prussian blue hollow nanospheres as high-performance cathode for sodium-ion batteries. Nano Research, 2018, 11(8): 3979-3990. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-018-1979-y

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Received: 08 November 2017
Revised: 21 December 2017
Accepted: 30 December 2017
Published: 25 January 2018
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