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JOURNAL OF APPLIED ELECTROCHEMISTRY
Volume 46, Issue 4, Pages 451-458Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10800-015-0911-3
Keywords
FeS anode; FeS electrode; NiFe
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- U.K. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/K000292/1]
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/N020863/1, EP/K000292/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/K000292/1, EP/N020863/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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NiFe batteries are emerging as an important energy storage technology but suffer from a hydrogen-producing side reaction which has safety implications and reduces coulombic efficiency. This manuscript describes a systematic improvement approach for the production of Fe/FeS-based anodes at high concentrations of iron sulphide. Electrodes were made by mixing varying amounts of iron sulphide in such a way that its concentration ranges from between 50 and 100 % (compositions expressed on a PTFE-free basis). Electrode performance was evaluated by cycling our in-house-produced anodes against commercially available nickel electrodes. The results show that anodes produced with larger concentrations outperform their lower concentration counterparts in terms of coulombic efficiency although a slight decrease in the overall cell performance was found when using pure FeS anodes. At high FeS concentrations a hydrogen-producing side reaction has been virtually eliminated resulting in coulombic efficiencies of over 95 %. This has important implications for the safety and commercial development of NiFe batteries.
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