Bimetallic Sulphates as Cathodes for Na ion batteries

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As part of our research into novel cathodes for sodium ion batteries we request beamtime to study the structures of a series of bimetallic sulphates. Sodium transition metal sulphates of the formula Na2M(SO4)2 can be synthesised by the dehydration of the bimetallic hydrate Na2M(SO4)2.xH2O. There are several different polymorphs that can be formed depending on the synthesis parameters and dehydration temperatures. To date we have synthesised two polymorphs of Na2Fe(SO4)2 and Na2Mn(SO4)2, as well as Co and Ni analogues. X-ray diffraction data indicate a monoclinic cell in all cases, however the structures are difficult to solve using X-ray diffraction techniques. It is proposed to combine X-ray and neutron diffraction studies to elucidate this problem.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.47625507
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/47625507
Provenance
Creator Dr Peter Slater; Dr Emma Kendrick; Miss Laura Driscoll; Dr Joshua Treacher; Dr Kevin Knight
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2017
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2014-03-11T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2014-03-12T00:00:00Z