Nature Communications (Sep 2017)

Alkaline earth metal vanadates as sodium-ion battery anodes

  • Xiaoming Xu,
  • Chaojiang Niu,
  • Manyi Duan,
  • Xuanpeng Wang,
  • Lei Huang,
  • Junhui Wang,
  • Liting Pu,
  • Wenhao Ren,
  • Changwei Shi,
  • Jiasheng Meng,
  • Bo Song,
  • Liqiang Mai

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00211-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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The development of suitable anode materials is essential to advance sodium-ion battery technologies. Here the authors report that alkaline earth metal vanadates are promising candidates due to the favorable electrochemical properties and interesting sodium-storage mechanism.