Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 2020, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (8): 1859.doi: 10.7503/cjcu20200093

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Mechanism of Storage and Capacity Attenuation of V2O5 as Cathode of Zinc-ion Battery

HUANG Yongfeng1,2, HUANG Wenting1,2, LIU Wenbao1,2, LIU Yuefeng3, LIU Wei3, XU Chengjun1   

  1. 1. International Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen 518055, China;
    2. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China;
    3. Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 116023 Dalian, China
  • Received:2020-02-24 Online:2020-08-10 Published:2020-05-09
  • Supported by:
    Supported by the International Science & Technology Cooperation Program of China(No. 2016YFE0102200) and the Shenzhen Technical Plan Project, China(No. JCYJ20160301154114273).

Abstract: In this paper, the vanadium(V2O5) was prepared by hydrothermal and then heat treatments and characterized by X-ray diffraction(XRD), spherical aberration corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy(STEM) and scanning electron microscopy(SEM). The results show that the prepared V2O5 grew preferentially and had good crystallinity. The V2O5 cathode material had a specific capacity of 340 mA·h/g at initial discharge at constant current of 0.5 A/g. The initial capacity of the battery was 170 mA·h/g at a constant discharge-charge current density of 5 A/g, which gradually decayed to 50 mA·h/g after 100 cycles. By subsequent analysis of the phase evolution of V2O5 cathode materials at different discharge states using XRD and STEM, it was revealed that the co-insertion(extraction) of zinc-ions and protons occured during the discharge-charge processes, and the amorphization of the positive electrode material during discharge-charge and the formation of by-product basic zinc sulfate lead to capacity attenuation of the battery system.

Key words: Zinc-ion battery, V2O5 cathode, Spherical aberration corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy(STEM), Capacity attenuation

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