Recent research progress of metal compounds as anode materials for sodium-ion batteries

doi:10.12028/j.issn.2095-4239.2018.0096

Abstract

Abstract: Sodium-ion batteries have attracted much attention as a type of promising energy storage system due to the abundant resources and low-cost of sodium. However, the larger radius of Na⁺ leads to a more difficult reversible intercalation/deintercalation of Na⁺ in electrode materials. Recently, metal compounds have been intensively investigated as anode materials for sodium-ion batteries with high theoretical capacities due to their conversion reaction mechanism of sodium storage. This paper summarizes the sodium-storage mechanism and research progress of metal compounds including oxides, sulfides and phosphides, investigates the sodium-storage performance, reveals the advantages of metal compounds as promising anode of sodium-ion batteries, and prospects the development of metal compound anodes for sodium storage.

Key words: sodium-ion battery, anode materials, metal oxides, metal sulfides, metal phosphides

CLC Number:

TM911

TIAN Liyuan, JU Xiaoxia, XIANG Feng, ZHOU Ming. Recent research progress of metal compounds as anode materials for sodium-ion batteries[J]. Energy Storage Science and Technology, 2018, 7(6): 1211-1216.

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