Magnesium intercalated vanadium oxide xerogels, Mg 0.1 V 2 O 5 ·2.35H 2 O and Mg 0.2 V 2 O 5 ·2.46H 2 O were synthesized using an ion removal sol gel strategy. X-ray diffraction indicated lamellar ordering with turbostratic character. X-ray absorption spectroscopy indicated greater distortion of the vanadium-oxygen coordination environment in Mg In this report, Mg x V 2 O 5 ·nH 2 O were prepared by subtracting cations from a crystalline metal vanadate as an alternative strategy in order to adjust the cation amount, Figure 1a, different than the usual V 2 O 5 ·nH 2 O based sol-gel method.3 The as-prepared materials, x = 0.1 (MVO-1) and x = 0.2 (MVO-2), were characterized and electrochemical activity in lithium and magnesium electrolytes was determined. Post mortem analysis was done to determine the magnesium/vanadium ratio after cycling. Implications for use of Mg x V 2 O 5 ·nH 2 O in lithium and magnesium based batteries will be discussed, with particular focus on the structural role of Mg 2+ .
ExperimentalSynthesis and characterization.-Mg x V 2 O 5 ·nH 2 O was synthesized via a sol gel process, 19 where aqueous magnesium vanadate (MgV 2 O 6 ) 20 was treated with an ion exchange resin. Characterization included X-ray diffraction (XRD), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and inductively-coupled plasma optical emission spectroscopy (ICP-OES).X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) was acquired at the V Kedge (5.465 keV) in transmission mode at the National Synchrotron Light Source at Brookhaven National Laboratory. XAS scans of each sample and a V 2 O 5 reference were aligned to a vanadium foil measured simultaneously and merged in Athena, 21,22 and normalized utilizing AUTOBK. Theoretical FEFF6 23 models were created using orthorhombic V 2 O 5 crystal structure. 24 Distances are not corrected * Electrochemical Society Fellow. * * Electrochemical Society Member.z E-mail: esther.takeuchi@stonybrook.edu; kenneth.takeuchi.1@stonybrook.edu; amy.marschilok@stonybrook.edu for phase shifts, and are represented to be shorter than the actual interatomic distance.Electrochemical testing.-Working electrodes were prepared using Mg x V 2 O 5 ·nH 2 O, carbon and binder. The electrolytes were 1.0 M LiPF 6 in ethylene carbonate (EC)/dimethyl carbonate (DMC) (v/v 30/70) and 0.5 M magnesium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonylimide) (Mg(TFSI) 2 )/0.5 M dipropylene glycol dimethyl ether (dipro-glyme) in acetonitrile. Cyclic voltammetry (CV) was conducted for Li based system at 2.0 to 4.0 V with lithium auxiliary and reference electrodes with a scan rate of 0.1 mV/s. In Mg 2+ containing electrolyte Ag/AgNO 3 reference and carbon auxiliary were used with voltage limits of −1.0 and +0.85 V using a scan rate of 0.1 mV/s. Two electrode lithium cells were used for galvanostatic cycling between 2.0-3.8 V at rates of 0.1 C and 0.5 C, with 1C set as 200 mA/g. In magnesium based electrolyte a 0.1 C rate for both discharge and charge was used,