Low‐Defect and Low‐Porosity Hard Carbon with High Coulombic Efficiency and High Capacity for Practical Sodium Ion Battery Anode
Abstract
Abstract Hard carbon is regarded as the most promising anode material for commercialization of Na ion batteries because of its high capacity and low cost. At present, the practical utilization of hard carbon anodes is largely limited by the low initial Coulombic efficiency (ICE). Na ions have been found to adopt an adsorption–insertion storage mechanism. In this paper a systematic way to control the defect concentration and porosity of hard carbon with similar overall architectures is shown. This study elucidates that the defects in the graphite layers are directly related to the ICE as they would trap Na ions and create a repulsive electric field for other Na ions so as to shorten the low‐voltage intercalation capacity. The obtained low defect and porosity hard carbon electrode has achieved the highest ICE of 86.1% (94.5% for pure hard carbon material by subtracting that of the conductive carbon black), reversible capacity of 361 mA h g −1 , and excellent cycle stability (93.4% of capacity retention over 100 cycles). This result sheds light on feasible design principles for high performance Na storage hard carbon: suitable carbon layer distance and defect free graphitic layers.
- Authors:
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- State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing Wuhan University of Technology Wuhan 430070 China
- College of Chemistry and Molecular Science Hubei Key Laboratory of Electrochemical Power Sources Wuhan University Wuhan 430072 China
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Richland WA 99352 USA
- Publication Date:
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1429526
- Grant/Contract Number:
- KC020105‐FWP12152
- Resource Type:
- Publisher's Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Advanced Energy Materials
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Advanced Energy Materials Journal Volume: 8 Journal Issue: 20; Journal ID: ISSN 1614-6832
- Publisher:
- Wiley Blackwell (John Wiley & Sons)
- Country of Publication:
- Germany
- Language:
- English
Citation Formats
Xiao, Lifen, Lu, Haiyan, Fang, Yongjin, Sushko, Maria L., Cao, Yuliang, Ai, Xinping, Yang, Hanxi, and Liu, Jun. Low‐Defect and Low‐Porosity Hard Carbon with High Coulombic Efficiency and High Capacity for Practical Sodium Ion Battery Anode. Germany: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1002/aenm.201703238.
Xiao, Lifen, Lu, Haiyan, Fang, Yongjin, Sushko, Maria L., Cao, Yuliang, Ai, Xinping, Yang, Hanxi, & Liu, Jun. Low‐Defect and Low‐Porosity Hard Carbon with High Coulombic Efficiency and High Capacity for Practical Sodium Ion Battery Anode. Germany. https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.201703238
Xiao, Lifen, Lu, Haiyan, Fang, Yongjin, Sushko, Maria L., Cao, Yuliang, Ai, Xinping, Yang, Hanxi, and Liu, Jun. Sun .
"Low‐Defect and Low‐Porosity Hard Carbon with High Coulombic Efficiency and High Capacity for Practical Sodium Ion Battery Anode". Germany. https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.201703238.
@article{osti_1429526,
title = {Low‐Defect and Low‐Porosity Hard Carbon with High Coulombic Efficiency and High Capacity for Practical Sodium Ion Battery Anode},
author = {Xiao, Lifen and Lu, Haiyan and Fang, Yongjin and Sushko, Maria L. and Cao, Yuliang and Ai, Xinping and Yang, Hanxi and Liu, Jun},
abstractNote = {Abstract Hard carbon is regarded as the most promising anode material for commercialization of Na ion batteries because of its high capacity and low cost. At present, the practical utilization of hard carbon anodes is largely limited by the low initial Coulombic efficiency (ICE). Na ions have been found to adopt an adsorption–insertion storage mechanism. In this paper a systematic way to control the defect concentration and porosity of hard carbon with similar overall architectures is shown. This study elucidates that the defects in the graphite layers are directly related to the ICE as they would trap Na ions and create a repulsive electric field for other Na ions so as to shorten the low‐voltage intercalation capacity. The obtained low defect and porosity hard carbon electrode has achieved the highest ICE of 86.1% (94.5% for pure hard carbon material by subtracting that of the conductive carbon black), reversible capacity of 361 mA h g −1 , and excellent cycle stability (93.4% of capacity retention over 100 cycles). This result sheds light on feasible design principles for high performance Na storage hard carbon: suitable carbon layer distance and defect free graphitic layers.},
doi = {10.1002/aenm.201703238},
journal = {Advanced Energy Materials},
number = 20,
volume = 8,
place = {Germany},
year = {Sun Mar 25 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Sun Mar 25 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}
https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.201703238
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