Abstract
La0.5Nd0.05Sm0.30Mg0.15Ni3.5 alloy was prepared by induction melting followed by annealing treatments. The effect of annealing time on the microstructure and electrochemical performances were investigated. Rietveld analyses results show that all the alloys mainly consist of major A2B7 and A5B19 phases and residual AB5 phase. Pr5Co19-type phase disappears with annealing treatment time prolonged to 9 h. The A2B7 phase abundance first increases and then decreases with the increasing annealing time from 6 to 12 h while A5B19 and AB5 phase abundances show the reverse trend. Moreover, a-axis parameter, c-axis and unit cell volume of the phases remain almost unchanged with prolonging the holding time. The activation properties of the alloy electrodes have not been affected by annealing time. The maximum discharge capacity of alloy electrodes monotonically increase from 326.5 mAh g−1 (t = 6 h) to 362.2 mAh g−1 (t = 12 h). HRD2000 decreases from 63.8% (x = 0) to 55.5% (x = 0.20), which is determined by hydrogen diffusion coefficient. The cycling capacity retention rate at the 200th cycle monotonically increases from 67.0% (x = 0) to 70.6% (x = 0.30), which should be ascribed to the improvement of corrosion resistance of alloy electrodes in the charging/discharging cycle.
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1 Introduction
Nickel/metal hydride (Ni–MH) battery, using hydrogen storage alloy as its negative material with the merit of pollution-free and superior performances, has got more and more attention in order to meet the urgent needs of high performance of secondary batteries and for environmental protection. To date, AB5-type alloys have been widely used in almost all commercial Ni–MH batteries because of their good overall electrode properties [1]. However, the electrochemical capacity of AB5-type alloys limited by the single CaCu5-type hexagonal structure is needed to be improved [2]. Meanwhile, the energy densities of the Ni–MH batteries cannot compete favorably with some other advanced secondary batteries. Therefore, it is urgently needed for new types of alloys to replace the conventional rare-earth-based AB5-type alloys with higher energy densities, faster activation, better rate dischargeabilities, and lower cost are [3].
Recently, several new and good hydrogen storage alloys were reported. The striking studies are a new family of alloys composed of the AB3- and A2B7-type rare earth–magnesium–nickle-based intermetallics [4]. RE–Mg–Ni-based hydrogen storage alloys have been considered as a promising candidate for the negative electrode materials of nickel/metal hydride batteries to substitute for AB5-type alloys due to their higher discharge capacity (380–410 mAh/g) [5,6,7]. It was reported that the discharge capacity of the La0.7Mg0.3Ni2.8Co0.5 alloy reached 410 mA h g−1 [8], which was 1.3 times that of AB5-type alloys. However, due to the corrosion and dissolution of the hydrogen absorbing elements (RE and Mg) in the KOH solution and the pulverization of the alloy particles during electrochemical charging/discharging cycling, the cycling stability of RE–Mg–Ni-based alloy electrodes is poor, which restrains their practical applications and industrialization [9, 10]. Moreover, with the rapid development of electric equipments, the hydrogen storage alloys used as the materials of nickel/metal hydride batteries are required to possess faster activation, better rate capability and lower cost [11, 12].
Generally, annealing treatment has been reported to be an effective way to improve overall properties of the alloys. Sakai et al. [13] investigated that annealing treatment on the rare-earth-based hydrogen storage alloys could decrease crystal defects and increase composition homogenization, and consequently enhance the discharge capacity and cyclic stability of the alloys. Hu [14] and [15] aslo investigated that the annealing treatments contributed to improve the electrochemical cycling stability of Co-free La2MgNi9 alloy and La1.8Ti0.2MgNi8.9Al0.1 alloy, respectively. Pan et al. studied the La–Mg–Ni–Co system hydrogen storage alloys, and reported that annealing significantly prolonged the cycle life of La0.67Mg0.33Ni2.5Co0.5 [16] and La0.7Mg0.3Ni2.45Co0.75Mn0.1Al0.2 [17] alloy electrodes due to composition homogenization. Wang [18] investigated the effect of annealing time on the structure and electrochemical properties of La0.72Nd0.08Mg0.2Ni3.4Al0.1 alloys. Lengthening annealing time at 1173 K notably increases discharge capacity and cyclic stability and promotes the formation of Gd2Co7-type phase, meanwhile, the abundance of Gd2Co7-type phase obviously increases with the increase of annealing time. Obviously, annealing treatment is effective to enhance discharge capacity and improve cycling stability of La–Mg–Ni alloy. However, most investigations focused on the effect of annealing temperature, few reports dealt with the effect of annealing time.
In this work, based on the above reasons, a systemic about the effects of the annealing time on the microstructure and electrochemical performances of La0.5Nd0.05Sm0.30Mg0.15Ni3.5 alloy was investigated. It is expected that the overall electrochemical performances of La0.5Nd0.05Sm0.30Mg0.15Ni3.5 alloy electrodes can be improved simultaneously with the different annealing time, particularly the maximum discharge capacity and cycling stability.
2 Experimental procedures
2.1 Alloys preparation
La0.5Nd0.05Sm0.3Mg0.15Ni3.5 alloy was synthesized by induction melting of the metal elements (La, Nd, Sm, Ni and Mg) in argon atmosphere. Then the ingot was annealed by using vacuum heat-treating furnace. Before heating, the sample cell was vacuumized until pressure is less than 10 Pa and then the argon was charged into the sample cell until the pressure was 0.8 MPa. The samples were heated from room temperature to 1048 K at the rate of 10 K min−1 and then kept in 1048 K for 6 h, 9 h and 12 h, respectively. Afterwards, the furnace cooling to room temperature air-cooled under an argon atmosphere.
2.2 Microstructure analysis
The alloy powders of measuring electrodes were obtained by grinding the inner part of alloy ingots in the Ar atmosphere. Sample powders of ~ 300 mesh size were used for X-ray diffraction (XRD) measurement, which was carried out on X’pert PROMPD X-ray diffractometer with Cu Kα radiation in the range from 20° to 80° with 0.02° min−1, and the results were analyzed by means of Rietveld method using the Maud software.
2.3 PCT measurements
The hydrogen storage properties of the alloys were studied by using pressure-composition-temperature (PCT) (made by Suzuki Shokan in Japan). Before the PCT measurement, the samples were evacuated at 354 K for 2 h. Then the alloys were hydrided at ~ 2 MPa H2 pressure and then dehydrided to ~ 0.001 MPa. The hydriding/dehydriding process was repeated for 5 times to activate the alloys. After activation, the PCT curves were measured at 314 K. The delay time was 180 s and maximum pressure was 2 MPa.
2.4 Electrochemical measurements
The electrodes for testing were prepared by mixing mechanically the alloy powders (0.1500 g) of 200–400 mesh and the Ni powders (0.7500 g) in the weight ratio 1:5 and cold pressed into pellets (10 mm) at 15 MPa with maintain pressure 2–3 min. Electrochemical measurements were performed at 298 K in a standard tri-electrode system, consisting of a working electrode (metal hydride), a counter electrode (Ni(OH)2/NiOOH), and a reference electrode (Hg/HgO) with 6 mol L−1 KOH solution as electrolyte. Each electrode was charged for 7 h at 80 mA g−1 and discharged to − 0.6 V versus Hg/HgO at 80 mA g−1 at 298 K. After every charging/discharging, standing for 10 min. In evaluating the high-rate dischargeability, discharge capacity of the alloy electrodes at different discharge current density was measured. The high-rate dischargeability (HRD, %) was defined as
where Cd was the discharge capacity at the discharge current density Id (Id = 80, 400, 1200 and 2000 mA g−1, respectively), and Cmax was the maximum discharge capacity at the discharge current density of 80 mA g−1.
The electrochemical impedance spectrum, the linear polarization curves and the potential-step measurements were performed on a PARSTAT 2273 Advanced Potentiostat/Galvanostat station, respectively. At 50% depth of discharge (DOD), the electrochemical impedance spectrum was tested in the frequency range of 100–10 MHz. Linear polarization curves were obtained by scanning the electrodes from − 8 to 8 mV (vs. open circuit potential). The potential step measurements were tested at 100% charge state. A + 500 mV potential was applied and the discharge time was 3600 s. For potential-step measurement, the electrodes in fully charged state were discharged with potential-steps of 0.5 V for 3600 s. The cut-off potential for all the above tests was 0.6 V versus Hg/HgO reference electrode and the testing temperature was 298 K.
3 Results and discussion
3.1 Microstructure
Figure 1 shows the typical Rietveld analysis pattern of La0.5Nd0.05Sm0.3Mg0.15Ni3.5 alloy. Lattice parameters, cell volume and phase relative abundance of the alloys are listed in Table 1. The degree of the refinements is judged by s: s = Rwp/Re, where Rwp is the weighed sum of residuals of the least square fit and Re is the value statistically expected. It can be seen that the alloys have multiphase structure including the major A2B7 and A5B19 phases and residual AB5 phase. Pr5Co19-type phase disappears after annealing treatment time prolonged to 9 h. Moreover, it can be found that a-axis parameter, c-axis and unit cell volume of the phases remain almost unchanged with prolonging the holding time. However, the abundance of A2B7 phase first increases and then decreases with increasing t value from 6 to 12 while A5B19 and AB5 phase abundance shows the reverse trend (Fig. 2).
Figure 3a shows SEM image of La0.5Nd0.05Sm0.3Mg0.15Ni3.5 alloy annealed at 1048 K for 12 h. It is seen from SEM that the microstructure is mainly composed of A and B phases. From EDS it is found that A and B phases have different elemental compositions but the elements distributes evenly within each phase.
3.2 Activation capability and maximum discharge capability
The number of cycles (Na) needed to activate the electrodes and maximum discharge capacity (Cmax) of La0.5Nd0.05Sm0.3Mg0.15Ni3.5 alloy electrodes are given in Table 2. It is noted that all the alloys with different annealing treatment time are easily activated to reach the maximum capacity within 2 cycles and show good activation property. However, the activation property of the alloy electrodes is not affected by prolonging annealing treatment time. The superior activation performances are mainly ascribed to the phase boundaries in the multi-phase alloys, which can not only decrease the lattice distortion and the strain energy formed in the process of hydrogen absorption/desorption, but also provide tunnels for the diffusion of hydrogen atoms.
The maximum discharge capacities of alloy electrodes monotonically increase from 326.5 mAh g−1 (t = 6 h) to 362.2 mAh g−1 (t = 12 h). It is mainly ascribed to the increase of hydrogen storage phase abundance. It has been shown that Ce2Ni7-type, Gd2Co7-type, and Ce5Co19-type phases present the increasing trend as a whole and possess higher hydrogen storage capacity than CaCu5-type phase [19, 20]. Also, Ce2Ni7-type, Gd2Co7-type, and Ce5Co19-type phases as main phase play a dominant role in discharge capacity. PCT curves of La0.5Nd0.05Sm0.3Mg0.15Ni3.5 alloys (Fig. 4) show that the hydrogen storage capacity increases, and the hysteresis becomes smaller and more flat with increasing t value. Moreover, the plateau pressure for hydrogen absorption–desorption gradually increases, which indicates that the stability of hydride reduces with lengthening annealing treatment time from 6 to 12 h. Therefore, prolonging annealing treatment time is beneficial to enhance discharge capacity of La0.5Nd0.05Sm0.3Mg0.15Ni3.5 alloy electrodes.
3.3 High-rate dischargeability and electrochemical kinetics
Figure 5 shows the relationship between the high-rate dischargeability (HRD) and the discharge current density of La0.5Nd0.05Sm0.3Mg0.15Ni3.5 alloy electrodes. HRD of the alloy electrodes increases with t decreasing from 12 to 6 h. HRD at the discharge current density of 2000 mA g−1 (HRD2000) is listed in Table 2. HRD2000 monotonically decreases from 63.8% (t = 6 h) to 55.5% (t = 12 h).
To clarify the effect of annealing time on electrochemical kinetics of La0.5Nd0.05Sm0.3Mg0.15Ni3.5 alloy electrodes, the exchange current density (I0) and the hydrogen diffusion coefficient (D) are measured by using the potential step technique. I0 is the rate of hydriding/dehydriding at the equilibrium state and can be used to evaluate electrocatalytic activity for charge-transfer reaction on the surface of alloy electrodes, as well as D characterizes the mass transport properties of an alloy electrode. [21].
The charge-transfer resistance at the surface of the alloys is determined by the electrochemical impedance spectrum (EIS). EIS of La0.5Nd0.05Sm0.3Mg0.15Ni3.5 alloy electrodes at 50% DOD at 298 K is shown in Fig. 6. Kuriyama et al. [22]. ascribed the larger semicircle in the low frequency region to the charge-transfer resistance on the alloy surface, and the semicircle in high-frequency region to the contact resistance between the alloy powder and the conductive material. Therefore, the larger the radius of the semicircle in the low frequency region is, the larger the charge-transfer resistance of the alloy electrode will be. As shown in Fig. 6, the radius of the semicircle of La0.5Nd0.05Sm0.3Mg0.15Ni3.5 alloy in the low-frequency and high-frequency remains almost unchanged with prolonging the annealing treatment time. On the basis of the circuit and by means of fitting program Z-VIEW, Rct were obtained. Table 2 gave Rct and I0 obtained by the following equation [22]:
where R was the gas constant, T was the absolute temperature and F was the Faraday constant. The Rct values of the alloy electrodes is 105.3 mΩ g (t = 6 h), 101.5 mΩ g (t = 9 h) and 103.7 mΩ g (t = 12 h), respectively. The I0 values are calculated by Eq. (2) and listed in Table 3. It is clear that the variation of I0 is 243.9 mA g−1 (t = 6 h), 253.0 mA g−1 (t = 9 h) and 247.6 mA g−1 (t = 12 h). This is to say, the annealing time plays a little role on the charge-transfer reaction of the alloy electrode, which may be ascribed to the little effect of annealing time on the surface state of the alloy electrode.
Figure 7 shows the semi-logarithmic plots of the anodic current versus the time response of La0.5Nd0.05Sm0.3Mg0.15Ni3.5 alloy electrodes. It can be seen that the current–time responses can be divided into two time domains [23]. In the first time region, the oxidation current of hydrogen rapidly declines due to the rapid consumption of hydrogen on the surface. In the following time region, the current declines more slowly and drops linearly with time. Since hydrogen is supplied from the bulk of the alloy at a rate proportional to the concentration gradient of hydrogen, the electrode current is controlled by the diffusion of hydrogen in the second time region. Zheng et al. [23] reported that in a large anodic potential-step test, after a long discharge time, the diffusion current varies with time according to the following equation:
where i is anodic current density (A g−1), D is the hydrogen diffusion coefficient (cm2 s−1), d is the density of the alloy (g cm−3), a is the radius of the alloy particle, C0 is the initial hydrogen concentration in the bulk of the alloy (mol cm−3), Cs is the surface hydrogen concentration of the alloy (mol cm−3) and t is the discharge time (s). Assuming that the alloy has a similar particle distribution with an average particle radius of 13 μm according to previous study [24], D was calculated and summarized in Table 3. The D of La0.5Nd0.05Sm0.3Mg0.15Ni3.5 alloy electrodes monotonically decrease from 7.29 × 10−11 (t = 6 h) to 6.64 × 10−11 cm2 s−1 (t = 12 h) with increasing t value. From the analyses above, lengthening annealing treatment time can deteriorate the hydrogen diffusion within the alloy bulk. The variation tendency of HRD is in agreement with change trend of the hydrogen diffusion coefficient (D) with increasing t value, which indicate that the hydrogen diffusion ability in the alloy bulk is the predominance factors of the electrochemical kinetics of the alloy electrodes.
3.4 Cycling stability
Cycling stability is an extremely important factor for the service life of hydrogen storage alloys. It is expressed by the cycling capacity retention rate Sn which can be calculated by the following formula:
where Cn is the discharge capacity at the nth charging/discharging cycle and Cmax is the maximum discharge capacity with a current density of 80 mA/g. The slopes of the cycling capacity retention rate versus as cycle number as shown in Fig. 8 represent the degradation rate of the discharge capacity during the charging/discharging cycle. The smaller slope value means better cycle stability of the alloy. It can be seen that the curve slopes of the alloys become slightly smaller with increasing annealing treatment time, which suggests that lengthening annealing treatment time can enhance the cycle stability of the alloy. In addition, the capacity retaining rate S200 of the alloy electrodes at 200th charging–discharging cycle as a function of Sm content are also listed in Table 2. It can be seen that S200 monotonically increases from 67.0% (t = 6 h) to 70.6% (t = 12 h), which indicates that the lengthening annealing treatment time can improve the cycle stability of the alloy electrodes. The improvement of cycling stability should be ascribed to the more homogeneous microstructure with increasing annealing time.
4 Conclusions
In this paper, La0.5Nd0.05Sm0.30Mg0.15Ni3.5 alloy was prepared by induction melting followed by annealing treatments at 1048 K for 6 h, 9 h and 12 h, respectively. The effects of the annealing time on the microstructure and electrochemical performances of the alloys were systematically investigated. The following conclusions can be drawn:
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Rietveld analyses pattern shows that the alloys have multiphase structure including the major A2B7 and A5B19 phases and residual AB5 phase. Pr5Co19-type phase disappears after annealing treatment time prolonged to 9 h. Moreover, a-axis parameter, c-axis and unit cell volume of the phases remain almost unchanged with prolonging the holding time. However, the abundance of the A2B7 phase first increases and then decreases with increasing time value from 6 to 12 h while A5B19 phase and the AB5 phase abundance shows the reverse trend.
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The activation property of the as-annealed alloy electrodes is improved. However, the activation property of the alloy electrodes is not affected by prolonging annealing treatment time. The maximum discharge capacity of alloy electrodes first increase from 326.5 mA/g (t = 6 h) to 362.2 mA/g (t = 12 h) with increasing t value.
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HRD2000 decreases from 63.8% (t = 6 h) to 55.5% (t = 12 h), which is determined by the hydrogen diffusion coefficient.
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The cycling capacity retention rate at the 200th cycle monotonically increases from 67.0% (t = 6 h) to 70.6% (t = 12 h).
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Ji, L., Zhao, X. & Ke, D. Influence of annealing time on electrochemical hydrogen storage properties of La0.5Nd0.05Sm0.3Mg0.15Ni3.5 alloys. SN Appl. Sci. 1, 27 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42452-018-0017-8
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