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Synthesis and Characterization of a Cathode Material for Sodium-Ion Batteries Based on a Composite of Sodium Vanadium(III) Phosphate and Expanded Graphite

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In this paper, we report an improved solid-state synthesis of Na3V2(PO4)3 isostructural with the NASICON superionic conductor and ranging in particle size from 0.5 to 4.5 μm with the use of spray drying of an aqueous solution of precursors, followed by annealing in a nitrogen atmosphere. The specific capacity of a composite of the synthesized Na3V2(PO4)3 and expanded graphite reaches 117.00 mAh/g at a charge–discharge rate of C/20 and drops to 76.73 mAh/g after 200 cycles in charge–discharge life tests at a charge–discharge rate of 1C. The apparent diffusion coefficient of sodium ions in the solid phase of the Na3V2(PO4)3/C composite for deintercalation and intercalation processes is 5.87 × 10–11 and 4.60 × 10–11 cm2/s, respectively.

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This work was supported through the Knowledge-Intensive Technologies and Engineering state program, subprogram no. 7, task no. 5 (Republic of Belarus).

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Sidorov, I., Zhilinskii, V.V. & Novikov, V.P. Synthesis and Characterization of a Cathode Material for Sodium-Ion Batteries Based on a Composite of Sodium Vanadium(III) Phosphate and Expanded Graphite. Inorg Mater 59, 611–618 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0020168523060146

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