Operando visualisation of battery chemistry in a sodium-ion battery by 23Na magnetic resonance imaging

Joshua M. Bray, Claire L. Doswell, Galina E. Pavlovskaya, Lin Chen, Brij Kishore, Heather Au, Hande Alptekin, Emma Kendrick, Maria-Magdalena Titirici, Thomas Meersmann and Melanie M. Britton ()
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Joshua M. Bray: University of Birmingham
Claire L. Doswell: University of Birmingham
Galina E. Pavlovskaya: University of Nottingham
Lin Chen: University of Birmingham
Brij Kishore: University of Birmingham
Heather Au: Imperial College London
Hande Alptekin: Imperial College London
Emma Kendrick: University of Birmingham
Maria-Magdalena Titirici: Imperial College London
Thomas Meersmann: University of Nottingham
Melanie M. Britton: University of Birmingham

Nature Communications, 2020, vol. 11, issue 1, 1-10

Abstract: Abstract Sodium-ion batteries are a promising battery technology for their cost and sustainability. This has led to increasing interest in the development of new sodium-ion batteries and new analytical methods to non-invasively, directly visualise battery chemistry. Here we report operando 1H and 23Na nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and imaging experiments to observe the speciation and distribution of sodium in the electrode and electrolyte during sodiation and desodiation of hard carbon in a sodium metal cell and a sodium-ion full-cell configuration. The evolution of the hard carbon sodiation and subsequent formation and evolution of sodium dendrites, upon over-sodiation of the hard carbon, are observed and mapped by 23Na nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and imaging, and their three-dimensional microstructure visualised by 1H magnetic resonance imaging. We also observe, for the first time, the formation of metallic sodium species on hard carbon upon first charge (formation) in a full-cell configuration.

Date: 2020
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