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- Title
P2-Na<sub>x</sub>VO<sub>2</sub> system as electrodes for batteries and electron-correlated materials.
- Authors
Guignard, Marie; Didier, Christophe; Darriet, Jacques; Bordet, Pierre; Elkaïm, Erik; Delmas, Claude
- Abstract
Layered oxides are the subject of intense studies either for their properties as electrode materials for high-energy batteries or for their original physical properties due to the strong electronic correlations resulting from their unique structure. Here we present the detailed phase diagram of the layered P2-NaxVO2 system determined from electrochemical intercalation/deintercalation in sodium batteries and in situ X-ray diffraction experiments. It shows that four main single-phase domains exist within the 0.5?x?0.9 range. During the sodium deintercalation (intercalation), they differ from one another in the sodium/vacancy ordering between the VO2 slabs, which leads to commensurable or incommensurable superstructures. The electrochemical curve reveals that three peculiar compositions exhibit special structures for x? = ?1/2, 5/8 and 2/3. The detailed structural characterization of the P2-Na1/2VO2 phase shows that the Na+ ions are perfectly ordered to minimize Na+/Na+ electrostatic repulsions. Within the VO2 layers, the vanadium ions form pseudo-trimers with very short V-V distances (two at 2.581?Å and one at 2.687?Å). This original distribution leads to a peculiar magnetic behaviour with a low magnetic susceptibility and an unexpected low Curie constant. This phase also presents a first-order structural transition above room temperature accompanied by magnetic and electronic transitions. This work opens up a new research domain in the field of strongly electron-correlated materials. From the electrochemical point of view this system may be at the origin of an entire material family optimized by cationic substitutions.
- Subjects
OXIDES; ELECTRODES; CLATHRATE compounds; VANADIUM; ELECTRON configuration; X-ray diffraction
- Publication
Nature Materials, 2013, Vol 12, Issue 1, p74
- ISSN
1476-1122
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/nmat3478