Issue 13, 2019

Room temperature demonstration of a sodium superionic conductor with grain conductivity in excess of 0.01 S cm−1 and its primary applications in symmetric battery cells

Abstract

The lack of suitable candidate electrolyte materials for practical application limits the development of all-solid-state Na-ion batteries. Na3+xZr2Si2+xP1−xO12 was the very first series of NASICONs discovered some 40 years ago; however, separation of bulk conductivity from total conductivity at room temperature is still problematic. It has been suggested that the effective Na-ion conductivity is ∼10−4 S cm−1 at room temperature for Na3+xZr2Si2+xP1−xO12 ceramics; however using a solution-assisted solid-state reaction for preparation of Na3+xZr2Si2+xP1−xO12, a total conductivity of 5 × 10−3 S cm−1 was achieved for Na3.4Zr2Si2.4P0.6O12 at 25 °C, higher than the values previously reported for polycrystalline Na-ion conductors. A bulk conductivity of 1.5 × 10−2 S cm−1 was revealed by high frequency impedance spectroscopy (up to 3 GHz) and verified by low temperature impedance spectroscopy (down to −100 °C) for Na3.4Zr2Si2.4P0.6O12 at 25 °C, indicating further the potential of increasing the related total conductivity. A Na/Na3.4Zr2Si2.4P0.6O12/Na symmetric cell showed low interface resistance and high cycling stability at room temperature. A full-ceramic cell was fabricated and tested at 28 °C with good cycling performance.

Graphical abstract: Room temperature demonstration of a sodium superionic conductor with grain conductivity in excess of 0.01 S cm−1 and its primary applications in symmetric battery cells

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
02 1 2019
Accepted
25 2 2019
First published
25 2 2019

J. Mater. Chem. A, 2019,7, 7766-7776

Room temperature demonstration of a sodium superionic conductor with grain conductivity in excess of 0.01 S cm−1 and its primary applications in symmetric battery cells

Q. Ma, C. Tsai, X. Wei, M. Heggen, F. Tietz and J. T. S. Irvine, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2019, 7, 7766 DOI: 10.1039/C9TA00048H

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