Journal article
Synthesis, structural and electrochemical properties of sodium nickel phosphate for energy storage devices
Nanoscale, Vol.8(21), pp.11291-11305
2016
Abstract
Electrochemical energy production and storage at large scale and low cost, is a critical bottleneck in renewable energy systems. Oxides and lithium transition metal phosphates have been researched for over two decades and many technologies based on them exist. Much less work has been done investigating the use of sodium phosphates for energy storage. In this work, the synthesis of sodium nickel phosphate at different temperatures is performed and its performance evaluated for supercapacitor applications. The electronic properties of polycrystalline NaNiPO4 polymorphs, triphylite and maricite, t- and m-NaNiPO4 are calculated by means of first-principle calculations based on spin-polarized Density Functional Theory (DFT). The structure and morphology of the polymorphs were characterized and validated experimentally and it is shown that the sodium nickel phosphate (NaNiPO4) exists in two different forms (triphylite and maricite), depending on the synthetic temperature (300–550 °C). The as-prepared and triphylite forms of NaNiPO4vs. activated carbon in 2 M NaOH exhibit the maximum specific capacitance of 125 F g−1 and 85 F g−1 respectively, at 1 A g−1; both having excellent cycling stability with retention of 99% capacity up to 2000 cycles. The maricite form showed 70 F g−1 with a significant drop in capacity after just 50 cycles. These results reveal that the synthesized triphylite showed a high performance energy density of 44 Wh kg−1 which is attributed to the hierarchical structure of the porous NaNiPO4 nanosheets. At a higher temperature (>400 °C) the maricite form of NaNiPO4 possesses a nanoplate-like (coarse and blocky) structure with a large skewing at the intermediate frequency that is not tolerant of cycling. Computed results for the sodium nickel phosphate polymorphs and the electrochemical experimental results are in good agreement.
Details
- Title
- Synthesis, structural and electrochemical properties of sodium nickel phosphate for energy storage devices
- Authors/Creators
- M. Minakshi (Author/Creator) - Murdoch UniversityD. Mitchell (Author/Creator)R. Jones (Author/Creator) - La Trobe UniversityF. Alenazey (Author/Creator) - King Abdulaziz City for Science and TechnologyT. Watcharatharapong (Author/Creator) - Uppsala UniversityS. Chakraborty (Author/Creator) - Uppsala UniversityR. Ahuja (Author/Creator) - Uppsala University
- Publication Details
- Nanoscale, Vol.8(21), pp.11291-11305
- Publisher
- Royal Society of Chemistry
- Identifiers
- 991005544389207891
- Copyright
- © 2016 The Royal Society of Chemistry
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Engineering and Information Technology
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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