X-ray absorption measurements on nickel cathode of sodium-beta alumina batteries: Fe-Ni-Cl chemical associations
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- 作者：Mark E. Bowden ; Kyle J. Alvine ; John L. Fulton ; John P. Lemmon ; Xiaochuan Lu ; Bobbie-Jo Webb-Robertson ; Steve M. Heald ; Mahalingam Balasubramanian ; Devon. R. Mortensen ; Gerald T. Seidler ; Nancy J. Hess
- 关键词：Sodium&ndash ; nickel chloride battery ; X-ray absorption spectroscopy ; Fe additives ; Chemical mapping
- 刊名：Journal of Power Sources
- 出版年：1 February, 2014
- 年：2014
- 卷：247
- 期：Complete
- 页码：517-526
- 全文大小：2770 K
文摘
Sections of Na-Al-NiCl2 cathodes from sodium-beta alumina ZEBRA batteries have been characterized with X-ray fluorescence mapping, and XANES measurements to probe the microstructure, elemental correlation, and chemical speciation after voltage cycling. Cycling was performed under identical load conditions at either 240 or 280聽掳C operating temperature and subsequently quenched in either the charged or discharged state. X-ray fluorescence mapping and XANES measurements were made adjacent to the current collector and 尾鈥?Al2O3 solid electrolyte interfaces to detect possible gradients in chemical properties across the cathode. An FeS additive, introduced during battery synthesis, was found to be present as either Fe metal or an Fe(II) chloride in all cathode samples. X-ray fluorescence mapping reveals an operating temperature and charge-state dependent spatial correlation between Fe, Ni, and Cl concentration. XANES measurements indicate that both Ni and Fe are chemically reactive and shift between metallic and chloride phases in the charged and discharged states, respectively. However the percentage of chemically active Ni and Fe is significantly less in the cell operated at lower temperature. Additionally, the cathode appeared chemically homogeneous at the scale of our X-ray measurements.