TY - JOUR
T1 - Rapid preparation of binary mixtures of sodium carboxylates as anodes in sodium-ion batteries
AU - Desai, Aamod V.
AU - Ettlinger, Romy
AU - Seleghini, Heitor Secco
AU - Stanzione, Maximillian G
AU - Cabañero, Joel
AU - Ashbrook, Sharon Elizabeth
AU - Morris, Russell
AU - Armstrong, A. Robert
N1 - Funding: This work was supported by Faraday Institution (Grant – FIRG018). The authors thank the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) for the Light Element Facility Grant (EP/T019298/1) and Strategic Equipment Resource Grant (EP/R023751/1). R.E. and R.E.M. gratefully acknowledge the financial support by the European Research Council grant ADOR (Advanced Grant 787073). H.S.S. thanks the Allan Handsel Postgraduate Research Scholarship for Chemistry for funding.
PY - 2024/5/28
Y1 - 2024/5/28
N2 - Sodium-ion batteries are emerging as a sustainable solution to tackle the growing global energy demands. In this context, organic electrode materials complement such technologies as they are composed of earth-abundant elements. As organic anodes, sodium carboxylates exhibit promising applicability in a wide range of molecules. To harness the advantages of individual systems and to minimise their limitations, in this work, an approach to form binary mixtures of sodium carboxylates using one-pot, microwave-assisted synthesis is presented. The target mixtures were synthesised in 30 min with disodium naphthalene-2,6-dicarboxylate (Na-NDC) as a common constituent in all. Both components in all mixtures were shown to participate in the charge storage and had a considerable effect on the performance characteristics, such as specific capacity and working voltage, in half and full cell formats. This approach opens a new avenue for enabling organic materials to be considered as more competitive candidates in sodium-ion batteries and promote their use in other material classes to overcome their limitations.
AB - Sodium-ion batteries are emerging as a sustainable solution to tackle the growing global energy demands. In this context, organic electrode materials complement such technologies as they are composed of earth-abundant elements. As organic anodes, sodium carboxylates exhibit promising applicability in a wide range of molecules. To harness the advantages of individual systems and to minimise their limitations, in this work, an approach to form binary mixtures of sodium carboxylates using one-pot, microwave-assisted synthesis is presented. The target mixtures were synthesised in 30 min with disodium naphthalene-2,6-dicarboxylate (Na-NDC) as a common constituent in all. Both components in all mixtures were shown to participate in the charge storage and had a considerable effect on the performance characteristics, such as specific capacity and working voltage, in half and full cell formats. This approach opens a new avenue for enabling organic materials to be considered as more competitive candidates in sodium-ion batteries and promote their use in other material classes to overcome their limitations.
U2 - 10.1039/D3TA06928A
DO - 10.1039/D3TA06928A
M3 - Article
SN - 2050-7488
VL - 12
SP - 12119
EP - 12125
JO - Journal of Materials Chemistry A
JF - Journal of Materials Chemistry A
IS - 20
ER -