Prussian Green A High Rate Capacity Cathode for Potassium Ion Batteries》.pdf

Electrochimica Acta 166 (2015) 32–39 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Electrochimica Acta journal homepa ge: www.elsev /locate/electacta Prussian Green: A High Rate Capacity Cathode for Potassium Ion Batteries a,1,* b,1 b,1 b,1 Prasanna Padigi , Joseph Thiebes , Mitchell Swan , Gary Goncher , David Evans b,1, Raj Solanki a,b,2 a Electrical and Computer Engineering, Portland State University, Portland, OR 97201, United States b Department of Physics, Portland State University, Portland, OR 97201, United States A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T Article history: The influence of the precursors, namely potassium ferrocyanide and potassium ferricyanide on the Received 23 December 2014 particles sizes of Prussian Blue (PB) and Prussian Green (PG), under identical reaction conditions have Received in revised form 3 March 2015 been investigated. It was found that the particle sizes influence the gravimetric capacity utilization of Accepted 12 March 2015 + these materials as cathodes for aqueous potassium (K ) ion batteries. The PG particle sizes were on the Available online 14 March 2015 order of 50–75 nm, whereas PB particles size were on the order of 2–10 microns. The PG cathodes