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Rechargeable magnesium batteries (RMBs) have emerged as a promising next-generation electrochemical energy storage technology due to their superiority of low price and high safety. However, the practical applications of RMBs are severely limited by immature electrode materials. Especially, the high-rate cathode materials are highly desired. Herein, we propose a dual-functional design of V2O5 electrode with rational honeycomb-like structure and rich oxygen vacancies to enhance the kinetics synergistically. The result demonstrates that oxygen vacancies can not only boost the intrinsic electronic conductivity of V2O5, but also enhance the Mg2+ diffusion kinetics inside the cathode, leading to the good high-rate performance. Moreover, ex-situ X-ray diffraction (XRD), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) characterizations reveal that Mg2+ is mainly intercalated from the (101) plane of V2O5−X based on the insertion-type electrochemical mechanism; meanwhile, the highly reversible structure evolution during Mg2+ insertion/extraction is also verified. This work proposes that the dual-functional design of electrode has a great influence in enhancing the electrochemical performance of cathode materials for RMBs.


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High-rate performance magnesium batteries achieved by direct growth of honeycomb-like V2O5 electrodes with rich oxygen vacancies

Show Author's information Dongzheng Wu1Yichao Zhuang1Fei Wang1Yang Yang2( )Jing Zeng1( )Jinbao Zhao1( )
College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, State-Province Joint Engineering Laboratory of Power Source Technology for New Energy Vehicle, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Engineering Research Center of Electrochemical Technology, Ministry of Education, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China
School of Chemical Engineering and Light Industry, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China

Abstract

Rechargeable magnesium batteries (RMBs) have emerged as a promising next-generation electrochemical energy storage technology due to their superiority of low price and high safety. However, the practical applications of RMBs are severely limited by immature electrode materials. Especially, the high-rate cathode materials are highly desired. Herein, we propose a dual-functional design of V2O5 electrode with rational honeycomb-like structure and rich oxygen vacancies to enhance the kinetics synergistically. The result demonstrates that oxygen vacancies can not only boost the intrinsic electronic conductivity of V2O5, but also enhance the Mg2+ diffusion kinetics inside the cathode, leading to the good high-rate performance. Moreover, ex-situ X-ray diffraction (XRD), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) characterizations reveal that Mg2+ is mainly intercalated from the (101) plane of V2O5−X based on the insertion-type electrochemical mechanism; meanwhile, the highly reversible structure evolution during Mg2+ insertion/extraction is also verified. This work proposes that the dual-functional design of electrode has a great influence in enhancing the electrochemical performance of cathode materials for RMBs.

Keywords: kinetics, oxygen vacancies, electronic conductivity, V2O5, rechargeable magnesium batteries

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Received: 13 April 2021
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Accepted: 14 June 2021
Published: 06 July 2021
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The authors gratefully acknowledge the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 21875198, 22005257, and 22021001) and Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province of China (No. 2020J05009) for financial support.

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