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Facile construction of honeycomb-shaped porous carbon electrode materials using recyclable sodium chloride template for efficient lithium storage
- Source :
- Science China Technological Sciences. 63:2123-2130
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020.
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Abstract
- Carbon materials are the preferred anode materials for Li-ion batteries. Here, we propose an easy and sustainable strategy to prepare honeycomb-shaped porous carbon (HPC) electrode materials through a process involving simple calcination and subsequent water washing by using polyvinyl-pyrrolidone (PVP) as carbon source and NaCl as pore-forming agent. A controllable cavity size and distribution of the carbon materials can be readily obtained solely by adjusting the NaCl amount. Results showed that the optimized HPC sample had a relatively uniform cavity distribution and a highly porous structure. Moreover, the special honeycomb-shaped structure was conducive to the electronic conductivity of the electrode materials, provided a short path for Li-ion transport and a wide interface with the electrolyte, and buffered the volume change of active materials. The special honeycomb-shaped structure was also maintained well after long cycles, which improved electrode stability. When used as anode materials for Li-ion batteries (LIBs), the sample demonstrated excellent cycling stability and rate performance, with a high specific capacity of 230 mA h g−1 and a reversible capacity of 197 mA h g−1, after 1200 cycles at 2 C. Overall, we introduced a simple strategy for the potential mass production of porous carbon materials for LIBs.
- Subjects :
- Materials science
Sodium
General Engineering
chemistry.chemical_element
02 engineering and technology
Electrolyte
010402 general chemistry
021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology
01 natural sciences
0104 chemical sciences
Anode
law.invention
chemistry
Chemical engineering
law
Electrode
Honeycomb
General Materials Science
Lithium
Calcination
0210 nano-technology
Carbon
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 18691900 and 16747321
- Volume :
- 63
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Science China Technological Sciences
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........4a30fd99a83ffcf266367f1aa5345903