Putting potassium tetratitanate to use as a cathode material for a rechargeable lithium ion battery, it was investigated that the effect of synthetic heat-treatment temperature of potassium tetratitanate on the amount of the substituted lithium ion. P...
Putting potassium tetratitanate to use as a cathode material for a rechargeable lithium ion battery, it was investigated that the effect of synthetic heat-treatment temperature of potassium tetratitanate on the amount of the substituted lithium ion. Potassium tetratitanate was synthesized at the temperature of 950℃, 1000℃ and 1050℃ under the reactant mole ratios of TiO_2/K_2O is 3.91, respectively.
After that, K^+ion situated at the spacing of adjacent (Ti_4O_9)^2- Sheets from potassium tetratitanate was exchanged with H^+ion then it was intercalated with Li^+ion. The higher the synthetic heat-treatment temperature of potassium tetratitanate went the narrower became the (Ti_4O_9)^2- interlayer space of it and the longer became its length. It was the whisker synthesized at 950℃ that the amount of intercalated lithium ions most rich.
As the interlayer space of (Ti_4O_9)^2- sheets swelled in low synthetic heat-treatment temperature, the migration of lithium ion into its interlayer space was eased.
In comparison with long potassium tetratitanate heat-treated in high temperature, the potassium tetratitanate heat-treated in low temperature became shorter its length so the migrating distance of lithium ion into its interlayer space got shorted.
In addition, on account of the number of short potassium tetratitanate whisker synthesized at 950℃ per the same weight is rich than the number of long potassium tetratitanate whisker synthesized at 1000℃ and 1050℃ per the same weight, the amount of lithium ion intercalated into the whisker synthesized at 950℃ was most abundant.