Synthesis, characterisation, and feasibility studies on the use of vanadium tellurate(vi) as a cathode material for aqueous rechargeable Zn-ion batteries

Mangayarkarasi Nagarathinam; Cindy Soares; Yue Chen; Valerie R Seymour; Vlastimil Mazanek; Mark A Isaacs; Zdenek Sofer; Oleg Kolosov; John M Griffin; Nuria Tapia-Ruiz

doi:10.1039/d2ra01166b

Synthesis, characterisation, and feasibility studies on the use of vanadium tellurate(vi) as a cathode material for aqueous rechargeable Zn-ion batteries

RSC Adv. 2022 Apr 22;12(19):12211-12218. doi: 10.1039/d2ra01166b. eCollection 2022 Apr 13.

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry, Lancaster University LA1 4YB UK n.tapiaruiz@lancaster.ac.uk.
² Department of Physics, Lancaster University LA1 4YB UK.
³ Department of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Chemistry and Technology Prague Technicka 5 166 28 Prague 6 Czech Republic.
⁴ EPSRC National Facility for XPS (HarwellXPS) Research Complex at Harwell Didcot OX11 0FA UK.

Abstract

Aqueous rechargeable zinc-ion batteries (AZIBs) have drawn enormous attention in stationary applications due to their high safety and low cost. However, the search for new positive electrode materials with satisfactory electrochemical performance for practical applications remains a challenge. In this work, we report a comprehensive study on the use of the vanadium tellurate (NH₄)₄{(VO₂)₂[Te₂O₈(OH)₂]}·2H₂O, which is tested for the first time as a cathode material in AZIBs.