Na-intercalation compounds and Na-ion batteries

Abstract

The widely use of lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries in various fields, from portable products to large-scale energy storage systems, has revolutionized our daily life. The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham, and Akira Yoshino for their contributions in developing Li-ion batteries. Although Li-ion batteries are currently on-growing research topics, lithium availability is still a problem for mass production. In contrast to lithium, sodium resources are almost unlimited on Earth, and sodium is one of the most abundant elements in the Earth's crust. Hence, sodium-ion (Na-ion) batteries as a counterpart of Li-ion batteries have the potential to serve as the next-generation batteries. In this work, a brief history and recent development of Na-ion batteries are described. The fundamental physical and electronic properties, such as geometric structures, band structure, density of states, and spatial charge distributions, of Na-intercalation compounds are discussed. The outlook of Na-ion batteries is given at the last.

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