Issue 14, 2018

Lanthanide doping induced electrochemical enhancement of Na2Ti3O7 anodes for sodium-ion batteries

Abstract

Na2Ti3O7 is considered as a promising anode material for sodium ion batteries (SIBs) due to its excellent high-rate performance compared with hard carbons. However, the electrochemical performance of Na2Ti3O7 is heavily limited by its low electrical conductivity. In this study, we synthesized a series of lanthanide (Ln = La, Ce, Nd, Sm, Gd, Er, and Yb) doped microsized Na2Ti3O7 anode materials and systematically studied the electrochemical performance. Compared with pristine Na2Ti3O7, all the doped samples show superior electrochemical performance. Especially, the Yb3+ doped sample not only delivers a high reversible capacity of 89.4 mA h g−1 at 30C, but also maintains 71.6 mA h g−1 at 5C after 1600 cycles, nearly twice that of pristine Na2Ti3O7. It is found for the first time that the enhancement in doped samples is attributed to the introduction of lanthanides which induces lattice distortion and oxygen vacancies.

Graphical abstract: Lanthanide doping induced electrochemical enhancement of Na2Ti3O7 anodes for sodium-ion batteries

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Article information

Article type
Edge Article
Submitted
06 dec 2017
Accepted
19 feb 2018
First published
20 feb 2018
This article is Open Access

All publication charges for this article have been paid for by the Royal Society of Chemistry
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Chem. Sci., 2018,9, 3421-3425

Lanthanide doping induced electrochemical enhancement of Na2Ti3O7 anodes for sodium-ion batteries

J. Xia, H. Zhao, W. K. Pang, Z. Yin, B. Zhou, G. He, Z. Guo and Y. Du, Chem. Sci., 2018, 9, 3421 DOI: 10.1039/C7SC05185A

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