Work on materials for sodium-ion batteries, using our ECHIDNA high-resolution powder diffractometer, by Max Avdeev and collaborators from the Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, has appeared online in the prestigious open-access journal Nature Communications.
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| Crystal structure of P2-Na0.6[Cr0.6Ti0.4]O2 based on the Echidna neutron diffraction data. The figure on the right shows the discovered disordered arrangement of Na+ ions essential for the material outstanding electrochemical properties. |
The full reference for the article is "P2-Na0.6[Cr0.6Ti0.4]O2 cation-disordered electrode for high-rate symmetric rechargeable sodium-ion batteries", by Yuesheng Wang, Ruijuan Xiao, Yong-Sheng Hu, Maxim Avdeev and Liquan Chen, Nature Communications 6, 6954 (2015) doi:10.1038/ncomms7954
Published: 24/04/2015