Sodium ion batteries are attractive due to the abundance of sodium in the earth's crust. Sodium ion is larger than the lithium ion; hence, transforming the understanding emanated from lithium ion battery research into sodium ion battery investigations is not straightforward. However, a successful lithium battery electrode exhibited impressive performance while it was being used as an electrode ...

1359-0286/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Ltd. A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cossms.2012.04.002 ⇑ Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (L.F. Nazar). Owing to almost unmatched volumetric energy density, Li-ion batteries have dominated the portable electronics industry and solid state electrochemical literature for the past 20 years. Not only will that continue, but they ar...

an iodide ion-selective pvc membrane sensor based on copper (π)-bis-nphenilsalicyldenaminatocomplex as a novel sensing material is successfully developed. theelectrode showed a good selectivity for iodide ion with respect to common inorganic anions. thesensor exhibited a good linear response with slope of _58.6 ± 0.4 mv per decade over theconcentration range of 5.0 × 10-6 to 1.0 × 10-1 mol l-1,...

2 3 Na two-dimensional nutation N M R was applied to N a t + *Zr 2 Si v P 3 _ v O, 2 with x = 0, 1, and 2. The nutat ion spectrum in each compound consists of two clearly separated peaks corresponding to the two crystallographically inequivalent sodium sites. In the compound with x = 2 the nuclear quadrupole coupling constants (e Qq/h) and the asymmetry parameters (rj) were by spectral simulati...

Sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) are potential candidates for the replacement of lithium-ion to meet increasing demands electrical storage systems due low cost and high abundance sodium. Sodium superionic conductor (NASICON) structured materials have attracted enormous interest in recent years as electrode safer long-term performance SIBs electric energy smart grids. These a three-dimensional robust...

An iodide ion-selective PVC membrane sensor based on copper (Π)-bis-Nphenilsalicyldenaminatocomplex as a novel sensing material is successfully developed. Theelectrode showed a good selectivity for iodide ion with respect to common inorganic anions. Thesensor exhibited a good linear response with slope of _58.6 ± 0.4 mV per decade over theconcentration range of 5.0 × 10-6 to 1.0 × 10-1 mol L-1,...

Materials degradation-the main limiting factor for widespread application of alloy anodes in battery systems-was assumed to be worse in sodium alloys than in lithium analogues due to the larger sodium-ion radius. Efforts to relieve this problem are reliant on the understanding of electrochemical and structural degradation. Here we track three-dimensional structural and chemical evolution of tin...