Résumé
The role of iron in Na1.5Fe0.5Ti1.5(PO4)(3)/C electrode material for Na batteries has been studied by Fe-57 Mossbauer spectroscopy in operando mode. The potential profile obtained in the galvanostatic regime shows three plateaus at different voltages due to different reaction mechanisms. Two of them, at 2.2 and 0.3 V vs Na+/Na-0, have been associated to redox processes involving iron and titanium in Na1.5Fe0.5Ti1.5(PO4)(3). The role of titanium was previously elucidated for NaTi2(PO4)(3) and the effect of the substitution of Fe for Ti was investigated with 57Fe Mossbauer spectroscopy. We show that iron is an electrochemically active center at 2.2 V with the reversible Fe3+/Fe2+ transformation and then remains at the oxidation state Fe2+ along the sodiation until the end of discharge at 0 V.