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2023 , Vol. 51 >Issue 3: 63 - 73

DOI: https://doi.org/10.12141/j.issn.1000-565X.220326

Chemistry & Chemical Engineering

Electrochemical Performance of Rb-Doped Na1.25V3O8 Nanorods as Cathode for Zinc-Ion Batteries

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  • 1.School of Physics and Optoelectronics，South China University of Technology，Guangzhou 510640，Guangdong，China
    2.South China Institute of Collaborative Innovation，Dongguan 523808，Guangdong，China
    3.Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Storage Materials，South China University of Technology，Guangzhou 510640，Guangdong，China
赵彦明（1962-），男，教授，博士生导师，主要从事凝聚态物理研究。

Received date: 2022-05-31

  Online published: 2022-08-26

Supported by

the National Natural Science Foundation of China(51672086);the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province(2017B030308005)

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Abstract

In order to know whether there is space for the improvement of the electrochemical performance of Na1.25V3O8 as cathode for zinc-ion batteries, this study successfully synthesized pure Na1.25V3O8 and Rb+ ion doped Na1.25V3O8 nanorods through hydrothermal method and solid phase method. With the help of XRD patterns, the diffraction peak shifts to a low angle and no new diffraction peak is generated with the increase of rubidium content, indicating that the Na1.25Rb x V3O8 sample is pure phase and maintain the structural symmetry of P21/m space group. This result indicate that rubidium ions have successfully entered the interlayer of Na1.25Rb x V3O8 layered compound. The results of SEM images and TEM images analysis show that, with the insertion of Rb+, scale of Na1.25V3O8 nanorods become thicker and larger, which would reduce the specific surface and lead to the increase of impedance and reducing the ion diffusion coefficients, resulting in poor electrochemical performance. EIS and GITT results further confirm that the insertion of Rb+ will lead to the decrease in capacity. Electrochemical testing results show that bare Na1.25V3O8 nanorods exhibit about 370 mA·h/g initial capacity, but it decreases fast with the increasing times of charge and discharge circle. After 100 cycles of discharge and charge processes at current density of 100 mA/g, discharge capacity decays about 50% compared to initial capacity. Although the specific capacity of Rb+-doped nanorods is reduced, their cycle stability and rate performance are significantly improved. When the amount of doped Rb is 1%, the initial capacity is 336 mA·h/g, but after 100 cycles of discharge and charge processes under the same conditions, the discharge capacity only decays about 6% compared to initial discharge capacity. When the amount of Rb increases to 5%, the initial capacity is merely 217 mA·h/g, but no capacity lost compared to initial capacity. The mechanism of zinc ion storage was analyzed through in-situ XRD and ex-situ XPS. The redox reaction mechanism of Na1.25Rb x V3O8 cathode material in the ZIBs is mainly based on chemical conversion reaction, in which only the charging reaction process is reversible.

Key words： zinc-ion batteries; cathode material; Na1.25V3O8; Rb-doped; nanorods

Cite this article

ZHAO Yanming, LIAO Jinhui . Electrochemical Performance of Rb-Doped Na1.25V3O8 Nanorods as Cathode for Zinc-Ion Batteries[J]. Journal of South China University of Technology(Natural Science), 2023 , 51(3) : 63 -73 . DOI: 10.12141/j.issn.1000-565X.220326

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