Na0.44Mn02 as a cathode material for aqueous sodium-ion batteries

Abstract

The application of rechargeable batteries is growing significantly and it became the nlost important field for largescale electric energy storage. While lithiuln-ion batteries (LIBs) have great commercial success, due to their large energy and power density, their application was limited because of the availability of lithiunl and its high cost. Sodiunl-ion batteries (SIBs) can be a promissing alternative due to the huge availability of sodium, its low price and similar intercalating electrochelnistry to LIBs. Among various Na-ion battery materials, low-cost and tunnel-type, Na0.44Mn02 (NMO) was regarded as one of the most pronlising cathode materials for sodium-ion batteries, because of its high theoretical specific capacity (122 rnA h g1) and good cyclability [2]. In this work, for the synthesis of NMO powder, rapid glycine-nitrate nlethod (GNM) was used, which, on the basis of the literature review, has not been used to synthesize this material so far.