Electrochemical Li-Ion Intercalation in Octacyanotungstate-Bridged Coordination Polymer with Evidence of Three Magnetic Regimes

Inorg Chem. 2016 Aug 1;55(15):7637-46. doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.6b01086. Epub 2016 Jul 15.

Abstract

Discovery of novel compounds capable of electrochemical ion intercalation is a primary step toward development of advanced electrochemical devices such as batteries. Although cyano-bridged coordination polymers including Prussian blue analogues have been intensively investigated as ion intercalation materials, the solid-state electrochemistry of the octacyanotungstate-bridged coordination polymer has not been investigated. Here, we demonstrate that an octacyanotungstate-bridged coordination polymer Tb(H2O)5[W(CN)8] operates as a Li(+)-ion intercalation electrode material. The detailed magnetic measurements reveal that the tunable amount of intercalated Li(+) ion in the solid-state redox reaction between paramagnetic [W(V)(CN)8](3-) and diamagnetic [W(IV)(CN)8](4-) in the framework enables the electrochemical control of different magnetic regimes. While the initial ferromagnetic long-range ordering is irreversibly lost upon lithium insertion, electrochemical switching between paramagnetic and short-range ordering regimes can be achieved.