Superlattice Cathodes Endow Cation and Anion Co-intercalation for High-energy-density Aluminium Batteries

Overview

Journal Nat Commun

Specialty Biology

Date 2024 Sep 16

PMID 39284820

Authors

Fangyan Cui

Jingzhen Li

Chen Lai

Changzhan Li

Chunhao Sun

Kai Du

Jinshu Wang

Hongyi Li

Aoming Huang

Shengjie Peng

Yuxiang Hu

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Abstract

Conventionally, rocking-chair batteries capacity primarily depends on cation shuttling. However, intrinsically high-charge-density metal-ions, such as Al, inevitably cause strong Coulombic ion-lattice interactions, resulting in low practical energy density and inferior long-term stability towards rechargeable aluminium batteries (RABs). Herein, we introduce tunable quantum confinement effects and tailor a family of anion/cation co-(de)intercalation superlattice cathodes, achieving high-voltage anion charge compensation, with extra-capacity, in RABs. The optimized superlattice cathode with adjustable van der Waals not only enables facile traditional cation (de)intercalation, but also activates O compensation with an extra anion reaction. Furthermore, the constructed cathode delivers high energy-density (466 Wh kg at 107 W kg) and one of the best cycle stability (225 mAh g over 3000 cycles at 2.0 A g) in RABs. Overall, the anion-involving redox mechanism overcomes the bottlenecks of conventional electrodes, thereby heralding a promising advance in energy-storage-systems.

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