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Ultra-rapid combustion synthesis of Na2FePO4F fluorophosphate host for Li-ion and Na-ion insertion

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Exploring soft-chemistry synthesis of Fe-based battery cathode materials, we have optimized combustion synthesis as an ultra-rapid approach to produce Na2FePO4F fluorophosphate cathode. It yields nanoscale, carbon-coated target product by annealing (at 600 °C) for just 1 min. The purity of the material crystallizing in the orthorhombic structure was confirmed by powder X-ray diffraction pattern and XPS analysis, while the morphology was studied by scanning electron microscopy. The as-synthesized material exhibits good electrochemical performance delivering a first discharge capacity of more than 70 mAh/g at C/10 rate versus both Li+/Li and Na+/Na, hence acting as an efficient host for both Li-ion and Na-ion insertion. Combustion synthesis can be employed as an economic route for synthesis and rapid screening of various phosphate-based insertion materials.

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Acknowledgements

The first author thanks the University Paris Sud/University Paris-Saclay (France) for a 3-month internship. PB thanks the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) for a DAE-BRNS Young Scientists Research Award (YSRA). The authors acknowledge Lotfi Bessais, Diana Dragoe, Eric Riviere, and Rita Baddour-Hadjean for their kind help with Mössbauer, XPS, magnetic, and Raman measurements, respectively. Crystalline structure was illustrated using the VESTA software [20].

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The first author thanks the Ministry of Human Resource Development (Govt. of India) for financial support.

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  1. Faraday Materials Laboratory, Materials Research Center, Indian Institute of Science, C. V. Raman Avenue, Bangalore, 560012, India

    Lalit Sharma & Prabeer Barpanda

  2. Institut de Chimie Moléculaire et des Matériaux d’Orsay, Equipe de Recherche et Innovation en Electrochimie pour l’Energie, Université Paris Sud/Université Paris-Saclay, 91405, Orsay, France

    Lalit Sharma, Ankush Bhatia, Loïc Assaud & Sylvain Franger

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Sharma, L., Bhatia, A., Assaud, L. et al. Ultra-rapid combustion synthesis of Na2FePO4F fluorophosphate host for Li-ion and Na-ion insertion. Ionics 24, 2187–2192 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11581-017-2376-3

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