Sodium ion battery is a promising electrochemical energy storage technology as an alternative to lithium ion batteries. The use of highly earth abundant element sodium, instead of precious lithium, potentially allows very low materials cost in battery manufacturing in the future, which is particularly important for large scale energy storage, such as stationary storage for electrical grids and high power tools.

1. Design and synthesis of novel cathode materials for sodium ion batteries

NaMnO2 cathode (Ma XH and Chen HL et al. J. Electrochem. Soc. 2010)

NaMnO2

NaMnPO4CO3 cathode (Chen HL et al. 2013 Chem. Mater.)

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2. Design and synthesis of novel anode materials for sodium ion batteries

Novel titanates as anode for sodium ion batteries.

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