(Keynote, Digital Presentation) Prussian Blue Analogues as Electrode Material of Batteries
Authors: Moritomo Yutaka 
Published: November 2022

Prussian blue analogues (PBA), which composed of cyano-bridged jungle-gym type framework and alkali metal ions, are promising material for electrode of batteries, because its framework is robust against electrochemical intercalation/deintercalation of alkali metal ions. In addition, the material consists of ubiquitous elements and is easily synthesized from aqueous solution. Thus, PBAs are promising electrode material for sodium ion secondary battery (SIB). We will introduce the overall features of PBAs as SIB electrode. Furthermore, PBAs are promising material for energy harvesting. We proposed a new type of battery (tertiary battery) that can be charged by the environmental heat using the difference in the thermal coefficient (α= dV/dT) of the redox potential (V) between the anode (αanode) and cathode (αcathode) materials. The tertiary battery can convert the environmental heat energy into electric energy during the thermal cycle, i.e., (i) heating to TH, (ii) discharge at TH, (iii) cooling to TL, and (iv) discharge at TL. In the (i) heating process, the V values of the anode and cathode change by αanodeΔTand αcathodeΔT, respectively. We expect a thermally induced change in the cell voltage (V
cell) as large as (αcathode - αanode)ΔT. The stored electric energy can be extracted by the (ii) discharge process at TH. We fabricated several tertiary batteries made of PBA electrodes with different a and evaluated the thermal voltage (Vcell) and discharge capacity (Qcell). For example, NaxCo[Fe(CN)6]0.87/NaxNi[Fe(CN)6]0.94 tertiary battery exhibits Vcell = 24 mV and Qcell = 2.4 mAh/g per unit weight of total active material contains in the cathode and anode. We will correlate the observed Qcell values with the electrode parameters of the tertiary batteries.

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