Development of Sodium-Ion Rechargeable Battery Using Sodium Cobalt Phosphate Cathode

H. D. W. M. A. M. Wijesinghe,V. P. S. Perera,C. H. Manathunga

doi:10.4038/ijms.v6i1.86

H. D. W. M. A. M. Wijesinghe, V. P. S. Perera

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https://doi.org/10.4038/ijms.v6i1.86

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Abstract

Lithium-ion batteries are the most popular kind of rechargeable batteries accommodate in portable electronic devices up to date. As the Lithium deposits are depleting the cost of Lithium-ion batteries is increasing. Sodium- ion batteries can be introduced as an alternative technology which can replace expensive Lithium-ion batteries. Sodium sources are highly abundant and therefore Sodium-ion batteries could be made cheaper than Lithium-ion batteries. A number of cathode materials which were accommodated in Lithium-ion batteries have also been tested as cathode materials for Sodium-ion batteries. This research was based on a Sodium-ion battery which cathode was prepared using Sodium cobalt phosphate. The cathode material was prepared using a simple solid-state reaction between Cobalt (II) oxide and Sodium phosphate. The prepared material was characterized using powder XRD. Chargedischarge cycles, cyclic voltammetry analyzing, impedance curve matching to obtain equivalent circuit was used in order to analyze the performance of the prepared cathode in the battery. The discharge capacity of the cathode was calculated as 9.58 mA h g-1. The cyclic voltammetry curve has shown that an oxidation and reduction processes involved in the battery cycle but the battery cycle was not completely reversible. KEYWORDS: Rechargeable batteries, Sodium cobalt oxide, cyclic voltammetry, charge-discharge cycles.

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As the development of portable electronic devices increased rapidly the rechargeable battery technology developed vastly
Lithium-ion (LIB) battery was the pinnacle of the rechargeable batteries up to this date (Nitta et al, 2015)
Limited availability of Lithium deposits makes the cost of these batteries increasing and an alternative solution must be brought to light

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Introduction

As the development of portable electronic devices increased rapidly the rechargeable battery technology developed vastly. Limited availability of Lithium deposits makes the cost of these batteries increasing and an alternative solution must be brought to light. In this case, Sodium-ion batteries (SIB) are among the perspective candidates to replace LIBs in the near future (Hwang et al, 2017). Lithium-ion batteries are originally developed as a high energy power source for electronic devices limited to 100 W h (Nitta et al, 2015). They were typically limited as a single battery pack. Intercalation cathode materials such as metal chalcogenides, transition metal oxides, Polyanion compounds are among them (Nitta et al, 2015)

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