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Abstract The development of alternative energy sources is crucial for reducing reliance on fossil fuels, particularly for mobile applications such as personal electronics and transportation. This necessitates the advancement of battery materials based on abundant and inexpensive constituent elements. To achieve this requires investigating materials in a broader compositional and structural design space. Early transition metal oxides, including the intercalation electrode V2O5, however, the performance of V2O5is hindered by phase transformations during battery cycling that lead to capacity fade and short device lifetimes. This study investigates the modification of V2O5through Mo substitution in a series of the form V MoxO5forx= 0.05, 0.1, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, and 0.8. X-ray diffraction data reveal progressive structural changes with increasing Mo content, which in turn change the progression of phase transformations during the first discharge. The different product also results in different cycling profile shapes that indicate differences in the charge storage mechanism as a function of Mo content. As a result, samples with higher Mo-substitution, especially V1.2Mo0.8O5, have narrower hysteresis, higher capacity, and improved capacity retention. While there is a limited solubility of Mo in the V2O5structure, with secondary phases and defects at many compositions, we show that Mo substitution alters the cycling behavior of V2O5to deep discharge, which can inform the design of intercalation materials for energy storage applications.
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Mo-substitution in V2O5 tunes the structure towards three-dimensional connectivity and improves Li-ion battery cycling
The development of alternative energy sources is crucial for reducing reliance on fossil fuels, particularly for mobile applications such as personal electronics and transportation. This necessitates the advancement of battery materials based on abundant and inexpensive constituent elements. To achieve this requires investigating materials in a broader compositional and structural design space. Early transition metal oxides, including the intercalation electrode α–V2O5, however, the performance of V2O5 is hindered by phase transformations during battery cycling that lead to capacity fade and short device lifetimes. This study investigates the modification of V2O5 through Mo substitution in a series of the form V2−xMoxO5 for x = 0.05, 0.1, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, and 0.8. X-ray diffraction data reveal progressive structural changes with increasing Mo content, which in turn change the progression of phase transformations during the first discharge. The different product also results in different cycling profile shapes that indicate differences in the charge storage mechanism as a function of Mo content. As a result, samples with higher Mo-substitution, especially V1.2Mo0.8O5, have narrower hysteresis, higher capacity, and improved capacity retention. While there is a limited solubility of Mo in the V2O5structure, with secondary phases and defects at many compositions, we show that Mo substitution alters the cycling behavior of V2O5 to deep discharge, which can inform the design of intercalation materials for energy storage applications.
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- 2334240
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- 10632120
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- V2O5 Li-ion battery X-ray diffraction
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- National Science Foundation
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