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Microsized fayalite Fe2SiO4 as anode material: the structure, electrochemical properties and working mechanism

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Fayalite Fe2SiO4 is synthesized by the solid-state reaction without ball milling. The obtained powder is further structurally and electrochemically examined. Field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM) showed that microsized powder is obtained. X-ray powder diffraction (XRD) pattern is used for both phase identification and crystal structure Rietveld refinement. The structure is refined in the orthorhombic Pbnm space group. Mössbauer spectroscopy revealed traces of Fe3+ impurity. The bond valence mapping method is applied for the first time on Fe2SiO4 framework. It shows isolated, non-connected isosurfaces of constant E(Li), which further supports the assumptions of the conversion reactions. Electrochemical performances are investigated through galvanostatic cycling, cyclic voltammetry, and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). Ex-situ XRD and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) analyses are combined to monitor phase change after galvanostatic cycling and to reveal the working mechanism during electrochemical lithiation.

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This work was financially supported by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia. D. Jugović and M. Milović acknowledge the support of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of Republic of Serbia, through agreements related to the realization and financing of scientific research work of the Institute of Technical Sciences of SASA (Contract No. 451-03-9/2021-14/200175).

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    Dragana Jugović & Miloš Milović

  2. Department of Nuclear and Plasma Physics, „VINČA” Institute of Nuclear Sciences - National Institute of the Republic of Serbia, University of Belgrade, P.O. Box 522, 11 000, Belgrade, Serbia

    Valentin N. Ivanovski

  3. Jožef Štefan Institute, Jamova 39, 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia

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  4. Department of Theoretical Physics and Condensed Matter Physics, „VINČA” Institute of Nuclear Sciences - National Institute of the Republic of Serbia, University of Belgrade, P.O. Box 522, 11 000, Belgrade, Serbia

    Tanja Barudžija & Miodrag Mitrić

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Jugović, D., Milović, M., Ivanovski, V.N. et al. Microsized fayalite Fe2SiO4 as anode material: the structure, electrochemical properties and working mechanism. J Electroceram 47, 31–41 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10832-021-00260-9

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