Anhydrous sodium perchlorate is a white crystalline solid. It is hygroscopic and absorbs water to form its monohydrate. Anhydrous sodium perchlorate is highly soluble in water, and soluble in a range of polar organic solvents such as methanol, ethanol, acetone, carbonates (including ethylene carbonate, dimethyl carbonate, propylene carbonate, and diethyl carbonate), and ethers (including dimethoxyethane, tetrahydrofuran, and triethylene glycol dimethyl ether). It is insoluble in benzene, chloroform, and toluene.
Application
The major application of anhydrous sodium perchlorate is as an electrolyte in sodium-ion batteries. It is popular because of its solubility in ethers and carbonates, its wide electrochemical stability window (e.g. from 0 to 5 V vs Na+/Na in propylene carbonate, triglyme, or diethylcarbonate)[1], and its compatibility with a wide range of materials. It has been used in batteries with hard-carbon anodes[2], mesoporous carbon anodes[3], sodium cobalt oxide cathodes (NaxCoO2)[4], sodium vanadium oxide cathodes (NaxVO2)[5], titanium dioxide cathodes[6], and emerging materials like high-entropy layered oxide cathodes[7].
Rechargeable sodium-ion batteries are becoming a viable alternative to lithium-based technology in energy storage strategies, due to the wide abundance of sodium raw material. In the past decade, this has generated a boom of research interest in such systems. Notwithstanding
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English), 59(1), 264-269 (2019-10-18)
Material innovation on high-performance Na-ion cathodes and the corresponding understanding of structural chemistry still remain a challenge. Herein, we report a new concept of high-entropy strategy to design layered oxide cathodes for Na-ion batteries. An example of layered O3-type NaNi0.12
Electrochemical Na Insertion and Solid Electrolyte Interphase for Hard-Carbon Electrodes and Application to Na-Ion Batteries.
Komaba, S., et al.
Advances in Functional Materials, 21, 3859-3867 (2011)
We demonstrate that peat moss, a wild plant that covers 3% of the earth's surface, serves as an ideal precursor to create sodium ion battery (NIB) anodes with some of the most attractive electrochemical properties ever reported for carbonaceous materials.
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