From lithium to sodium: design of heterometallic molecular precursors for the NaMO2 cathode materials

Haixiang Han; Zheng Zhou; Jesse C Carozza; Jeff Lengyel; Yuan Yao; Zheng Wei; Evgeny V Dikarev

doi:10.1039/c9cc02836f

From lithium to sodium: design of heterometallic molecular precursors for the NaMO₂ cathode materials

Chem Commun (Camb). 2019 Jun 25;55(50):7243-7246. doi: 10.1039/c9cc02836f. Epub 2019 Jun 5.

Authors

Haixiang Han¹, Zheng Zhou², Jesse C Carozza², Jeff Lengyel³, Yuan Yao⁴, Zheng Wei², Evgeny V Dikarev²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry, University at Albany, State University of New York, 1400 Washington Ave., Albany, NY 12222, USA. edikarev@albany.edu and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, NY 14850, USA.
² Department of Chemistry, University at Albany, State University of New York, 1400 Washington Ave., Albany, NY 12222, USA. edikarev@albany.edu.
³ Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida State University, FL 32306, USA.
⁴ Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, NY 14850, USA.

PMID: 31165804
DOI: 10.1039/c9cc02836f

Abstract

Based on the well-established model structure of Li₂M₂(tbaoac)₆, the first series of heterometallic molecular precursors Na₂M₂(tbaoac)₆(THF)₂ (M = Fe, Co, and Ni) have been designed and successfully utilized for the preparation of NaMO₂ oxide cathode materials of sodium-ion batteries.