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Water-steam activation toward oxygen-deficient vanadium oxides for enhancing zinc ion storage
- Source :
- Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 9:24517-24527
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), 2021.
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Abstract
- A major limitation of vanadium oxides in aqueous Zn/V2O5 ion battery applications is that they suffer from strong coulombic ion–lattice interactions with divalent Zn2+. Correspondingly, vanadium oxides show the poor utilization of their electrochemically active surface areas and unsatisfactory structural stability. The Gibbs free energy of Zn2+ adsorption in the vicinity of oxygen vacancies can be reduced to a thermoneutral value, which suggests that the Zn2+ adsorption/desorption process on the oxygen-deficient oxide lattice is more reversible as compared to a less defective vanadium oxide. In this work, it is demonstrated that these problems can be significantly ameliorated via creating oxygen vacancies in vanadium oxide host materials. Specifically, for the first time, vanadium oxides with abundant oxygen defects (labeled Vo-V2O5) are fabricated via a new water-steam activation strategy. Such water-steam activation forms abundant oxygen defects, and the as-prepared materials show a 3.5-fold increase in the carrier density, together with larger electrochemically active surface areas compared to a less defective vanadium oxide. When used as a cathode material for aqueous zinc ion batteries, Vo-V2O5 exhibits a high specific capacity (335 mA h g−1 at 0.2 A g−1) and excellent cell stability (∼87.2% capacity retention after 3500 continuous charge/discharge cycles at 5.0 A g−1). Thus, this water-steam activation approach for disordered metal oxides yields highly competitive cathode materials, which may also aid in the future development of advanced materials in related energy fields.
- Subjects :
- Aqueous solution
Materials science
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Inorganic chemistry
Oxide
chemistry.chemical_element
Vanadium
General Chemistry
Oxygen
Vanadium oxide
Metal
chemistry.chemical_compound
Adsorption
chemistry
visual_art
Desorption
visual_art.visual_art_medium
General Materials Science
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 20507496 and 20507488
- Volume :
- 9
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Materials Chemistry A
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........9e7f1d5196f781b7769585bebcb68169
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1039/d1ta07599c