Nature Communications (Jun 2018)

High energy-density and reversibility of iron fluoride cathode enabled via an intercalation-extrusion reaction

  • Xiulin Fan,
  • Enyuan Hu,
  • Xiao Ji,
  • Yizhou Zhu,
  • Fudong Han,
  • Sooyeon Hwang,
  • Jue Liu,
  • Seongmin Bak,
  • Zhaohui Ma,
  • Tao Gao,
  • Sz-Chian Liou,
  • Jianming Bai,
  • Xiao-Qing Yang,
  • Yifei Mo,
  • Kang Xu,
  • Dong Su,
  • Chunsheng Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04476-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Poor electrochemical reversibility of the conversion-type cathode materials remains an important challenge for their practical applications. Here, the authors report a highly reversible fluoride cathode material with low hysteresis through concerted doping of cobalt and oxygen into iron fluoride.