Nature Communications (Feb 2018)

Monovalent manganese based anodes and co-solvent electrolyte for stable low-cost high-rate sodium-ion batteries

  • Ali Firouzi,
  • Ruimin Qiao,
  • Shahrokh Motallebi,
  • Christian W. Valencia,
  • Hannah S. Israel,
  • Mai Fujimoto,
  • L. Andrew Wray,
  • Yi-De Chuang,
  • Wanli Yang,
  • Colin D. Wessells

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03257-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Sodium ion batteries offer more cost-effective storage than lithium and could be used for grid-scale energy storage. Here, the authors demonstrate a full cell based on a MnHCMn anode and an organic-aqueous cosolvent electrolyte. X-ray spectroscopy evidence further suggests the presence of Mn(I).