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Electrochemical Intercalation of Sodium into Composites Based on Iron(III) Phosphate and Carbon

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Materials based on amorphous iron(III) phosphate have been prepared via precipitation in an aqueous medium and microemulsion, as well as in a microemulsion in the presence of a mesoporous carbon material. Heat treatment of amorphous FePO4 leads to the formation of the hexagonal phase of crystalline FePO4. It has been shown that sodium intercalation under operating conditions of sodium ion batteries is more effective in the case of materials based on amorphous FePO4. The discharge capacity of the material based on amorphous FePO4 synthesized by the microemulsion method in the presence of the G_157M mesoporous carbon material is ~183 mAh/g and is the sum of the capacity due to sodium intercalation into FePO4 and that due to the reduction of functional groups on the surface of the mesoporous carbon.

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This work was supported by the Russian Science Foundation (project no. 16-13-00024) and the Russian Federation Ministry of Education and Science (state research target for the Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, basic research, materials characterization).

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    V. V. Ozerova

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    S. A. Novikova & A. B. Yaroslavtsev

  3. Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, ul. Nobelya 3, 143026, Moscow, Russia

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  4. Frumkin Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskii pr. 31/4, 119071, Moscow, Russia

    T. L. Kulova & A. M. Skundin

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Ozerova, V.V., Novikova, S.A., Chekannikov, A.A. et al. Electrochemical Intercalation of Sodium into Composites Based on Iron(III) Phosphate and Carbon. Inorg Mater 55, 462–469 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0020168519050169

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