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Title: Pyrolytic Carbon Nanosheets for Ultrafast and Ultrastable Sodium‐Ion Storage

Abstract

Abstract Na‐ion cointercalation in the graphite host structure in a glyme‐based electrolyte represents a new possibility for using carbon‐based materials (CMs) as anodes for Na‐ion storage. However, local microstructures and nanoscale morphological features in CMs affect their electrochemical performances; they require intensive studies to achieve high levels of Na‐ion storage performances. Here, pyrolytic carbon nanosheets (PCNs) composed of multitudinous graphitic nanocrystals are prepared from renewable bioresources by heating. In particular, PCN‐2800 prepared by heating at 2800 °C has a distinctive sp 2 carbon bonding nature, crystalline domain size of ≈44.2 Å, and high electrical conductivity of ≈320 S cm −1 , presenting significantly high rate capability at 600 C (60 A g −1 ) and stable cycling behaviors over 40 000 cycles as an anode for Na‐ion storage. The results of this study show the unusual graphitization behaviors of a char‐type carbon precursor and exceptionally high rate and cycling performances of the resulting graphitic material, PCN‐2800, even surpassing those of supercapacitors.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [1];  [1];  [4];  [2];  [5];  [1];  [6]
  1. Department of Polymer Science and Engineering Inha University Incheon 402‐751 South Korea
  2. Department of Materials Science and Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana − Champaign Urbana IL 61801 USA
  3. Institute of Advanced Composite Materials Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) 92 Chudong‐ro, Bongdong‐eup Wanju‐gun Jeonbuk 55324 South Korea
  4. Division of Electron Microscopic Research Korea Basic Science Institute Daejeon 34133 South Korea
  5. Carbon Composite Materials Research Center Korea Institute of Science and Technology 92 Chudong‐ro, Bongdong‐eup Wanju‐gun Jeonbuk 55324 South Korea
  6. Department of Chemical Engineering Kangwon National University Samcheok 245‐711 South Korea
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USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1431138
Grant/Contract Number:  
DE‐AC02‐06CH11357
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Publisher's Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Small
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Small Journal Volume: 14 Journal Issue: 17; Journal ID: ISSN 1613-6810
Publisher:
Wiley Blackwell (John Wiley & Sons)
Country of Publication:
Germany
Language:
English

Citation Formats

Cho, Se Youn, Kang, Minjee, Choi, Jaewon, Lee, Min Eui, Yoon, Hyeon Ji, Kim, Hae Jin, Leal, Cecilia, Lee, Sungho, Jin, Hyoung‐Joon, and Yun, Young Soo. Pyrolytic Carbon Nanosheets for Ultrafast and Ultrastable Sodium‐Ion Storage. Germany: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1002/smll.201703043.
Cho, Se Youn, Kang, Minjee, Choi, Jaewon, Lee, Min Eui, Yoon, Hyeon Ji, Kim, Hae Jin, Leal, Cecilia, Lee, Sungho, Jin, Hyoung‐Joon, & Yun, Young Soo. Pyrolytic Carbon Nanosheets for Ultrafast and Ultrastable Sodium‐Ion Storage. Germany. https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.201703043
Cho, Se Youn, Kang, Minjee, Choi, Jaewon, Lee, Min Eui, Yoon, Hyeon Ji, Kim, Hae Jin, Leal, Cecilia, Lee, Sungho, Jin, Hyoung‐Joon, and Yun, Young Soo. Tue . "Pyrolytic Carbon Nanosheets for Ultrafast and Ultrastable Sodium‐Ion Storage". Germany. https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.201703043.
@article{osti_1431138,
title = {Pyrolytic Carbon Nanosheets for Ultrafast and Ultrastable Sodium‐Ion Storage},
author = {Cho, Se Youn and Kang, Minjee and Choi, Jaewon and Lee, Min Eui and Yoon, Hyeon Ji and Kim, Hae Jin and Leal, Cecilia and Lee, Sungho and Jin, Hyoung‐Joon and Yun, Young Soo},
abstractNote = {Abstract Na‐ion cointercalation in the graphite host structure in a glyme‐based electrolyte represents a new possibility for using carbon‐based materials (CMs) as anodes for Na‐ion storage. However, local microstructures and nanoscale morphological features in CMs affect their electrochemical performances; they require intensive studies to achieve high levels of Na‐ion storage performances. Here, pyrolytic carbon nanosheets (PCNs) composed of multitudinous graphitic nanocrystals are prepared from renewable bioresources by heating. In particular, PCN‐2800 prepared by heating at 2800 °C has a distinctive sp 2 carbon bonding nature, crystalline domain size of ≈44.2 Å, and high electrical conductivity of ≈320 S cm −1 , presenting significantly high rate capability at 600 C (60 A g −1 ) and stable cycling behaviors over 40 000 cycles as an anode for Na‐ion storage. The results of this study show the unusual graphitization behaviors of a char‐type carbon precursor and exceptionally high rate and cycling performances of the resulting graphitic material, PCN‐2800, even surpassing those of supercapacitors.},
doi = {10.1002/smll.201703043},
journal = {Small},
number = 17,
volume = 14,
place = {Germany},
year = {Tue Apr 03 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Tue Apr 03 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}

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