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NPG ASIA MATERIALS
Volume 6, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/am.2014.98
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- Global Frontier Program through the Global Frontier Hybrid Interface Materials (GFHIM) of the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) - Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning [2013M3A6B1078875]
- Pohang Accelerator Laboratory (PAL) through the abroad beam-time program of the Synchrotron Radiation Facility Project under MEST
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In response to the ever-increasing global demand for viable energy-storage systems, sodium and potassium batteries appear to be promising alternatives to lithium ion batteries because of the abundance, low cost and environmental benignity of sodium/potassium. Electrical energy storage via ion-intercalation reactions in crystalline electrodes is critically dependent on the sizes of the guest ions. Herein, we report on the use of a porous amorphous iron phosphate synthesized using ambient temperature strategies as a potential host that stores electrical energy through the feasible insertion of mono-/di-/tri-valent ions. A combination of ex situ studies reveals the existence of a reversible amorphous-to-crystalline transition in this versatile electrode during electrochemical reactions with monovalent sodium, potassium and lithium. This reconstitutive reaction contributes to realizing specific capacities of 179 and 156 mAhg(-1) versus sodium and potassium at current densities of 10 and 5 mAg(-1), respectively. This finding facilitates the feasible development of several amorphous electrodes with similar phase behavior for energy-storage applications.
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