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Electrochemical and Solid State Letters, Vol.12, No.11, A219-A224, 2009
Synthesis, Structure, and Electrochemistry of Silver Niobium Oxyfluorides for Lithium Batteries
An electroactive nanostructured silver niobium oxyfluoride (SNOF) was successfully synthesized through the mechanochemical reaction of AgF/AgF2 and Nb2O5. Throughout a wide composition range of x=1-4.5 (x=Ag:Nb), the AgF-based SNOF was shown to be a cubic perovskite structure. For AgF2-based SNOF, a cubic perovskite developed at x=1.5, a structural phase transition to monoclinic and tetragonal was observed at x=2.83 and x=4.5, respectively. The SNOF (AgF) perovskite phases with proper control of composition exhibited a three-electron silver reduction occurring at a voltage of >3 V at modest rates of discharge without the use of any conductive matrix.
Keywords:discharges (electric);electrochemistry;nanostructured materials;secondary cells;silver compounds;solid-state phase transformations