The effect of coprecipitation and heating temperature on structural evolution and electrochemical performance of iron-based prussian blue analogs

Iron-based Prussian blue analogs (PBAs) are synthesized using a modified coprecipitation approach at different temperatures to study the effect of coprecipitation reaction temperature on structural and electrochemical performance. The experimental results showed that the iron-based PBAs transferred from the cubic structure to the monoclinic phase as the temperature increased from 5 °C to 60 °C, with the former exhibiting rich-in-boundary morphology and the latter showing a well-defined cubic shape. The electrochemical performance of the samples is closely related to the structure: the PBAs with monoclinic structures exhibit a higher charge/discharge specific capacity than those of PBAs with cubic structures. In addition, the samples are further treated at 270 °C, new phases are probed, and the charge/discharge specific capacity for the HT-PB-60 sample is significantly improved by more than 36.15%.