| Summary: | A thermo-rechargeable battery or tertiary battery converts thermal energy into electric energy via an electrochemical Seebeck coefficient. The manufacturing of the tertiary batteries requires a pre-oxidation step to align and optimize the cathode and anode potentials. The pre-oxidation step, which is not part of the secondary battery manufacturing process, makes the manufacturing of tertiary batteries complex and costly. To omit the pre-oxidation step, we used partially oxidized Prussian blue analogs, i.e., Na<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msub><mrow></mrow><mi>x</mi></msub></semantics></math></inline-formula>Co[Fe(CN)<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msub><mrow></mrow><mn>6</mn></msub></semantics></math></inline-formula>]<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msub><mrow></mrow><mi>y</mi></msub></semantics></math></inline-formula><i>z</i>H<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msub><mrow></mrow><mn>2</mn></msub></semantics></math></inline-formula>O (Co-PBA) and Na<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msub><mrow></mrow><mi>x</mi></msub></semantics></math></inline-formula>Ni[Fe(CN)<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msub><mrow></mrow><mn>6</mn></msub></semantics></math></inline-formula>]<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msub><mrow></mrow><mi>y</mi></msub></semantics></math></inline-formula><i>z</i>H<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msub><mrow></mrow><mn>2</mn></msub></semantics></math></inline-formula>O (Ni-PBA), as cathode and anode materials. The modified tertiary battery without the pre-oxidation step shows good thermal cyclability between 10 <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msup><mrow></mrow><mo>∘</mo></msup></semantics></math></inline-formula>C and 50 <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msup><mrow></mrow><mo>∘</mo></msup></semantics></math></inline-formula>C without detectable deterioration of the thermal voltage (<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msub><mi>V</mi><mi>cell</mi></msub></semantics></math></inline-formula>) and discharge capacity (<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msub><mi>Q</mi><mi>cell</mi></msub></semantics></math></inline-formula>).
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