Issue 20, 2024

Strategies to alleviate distortive phase transformations in Li-ion intercalation reactions: an example with vanadium pentoxide

Abstract

Chemical and electrochemical Li-ion insertion in transition metal oxides, either via a phase transformation reaction (ions insert into specific crystallographic sites of the host lattice) or a solid solution insertion (ions distribute uniformly throughout the host lattice), enables high energy density electrochemical energy storage. Many phase transformation cathode materials, that undergo two-phase reactions, exhibit high theoretical capacities arising from multi-electron redox reactions. However, challenges in distortive phase transformations and uncontrolled phase nucleation, propagation, segregation, and co-existence continue to limit the energy density, (dis)charging rate performances, and cycling stability of available phase transformation cathode materials. Vanadium pentoxide (V2O5), a classical layered intercalation host material with high theoretical capacity, undergoes irreversible structural changes and capacity fading when intercalating more than one lithium ion per V2O5 unit in its thermodynamically stable phase. Here, we review recent synthetic strategies to alter the V–O connectivity, thereby alleviating distortive phase transformations and promoting solid solution-based Li-ion insertion in V2O5. We also summarize several widely accessible and classical molecular-based analytical tools that can provide local structural dynamics and phase transformation mechanism information on the lithiation of V2O5, including single-crystal X-ray diffraction, infrared and Raman spectroscopy, electron paramagnetic resonance, and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.

Graphical abstract: Strategies to alleviate distortive phase transformations in Li-ion intercalation reactions: an example with vanadium pentoxide

Article information

Article type
Minireview
Submitted
01 dec 2023
Accepted
07 mar 2024
First published
29 apr 2024
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Nanoscale, 2024,16, 9710-9727

Strategies to alleviate distortive phase transformations in Li-ion intercalation reactions: an example with vanadium pentoxide

M. W. Yaseen, M. P. Maman, S. Mishra, I. Mohammad and X. Li, Nanoscale, 2024, 16, 9710 DOI: 10.1039/D3NR06138H

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