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Title: Sustainable Potassium-Ion Battery Anodes Derived from Waste-Tire Rubber

Abstract

The recycling of waste-tire rubber is of critical importance since the discarded tires pose serious environmental and health hazards to our society. Here, we report a new application for hard-carbon materials derived from waste-tires as anodes in potassium-ion batteries. The sustainable tire-derived carbons show good reversible potassium insertion at relatively high rates. Long-term stability tests exhibit capacities of 155 and 141 mAh g–1 for carbon pyrolyzed at 1100°C and 1600°C, respectively, after 200 cycles at current rate of C/2. As a result, this study provides an alternative solution for inexpensive and environmental benign potassium-ion battery anode materials.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [2];  [2];  [3];  [3];  [4];  [4];  [1]
  1. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); The Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
  2. Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States)
  3. RJ Lee Group, Monroeville, PA (United States)
  4. The Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
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Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1376631
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-00OR22725
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of the Electrochemical Society
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 164; Journal Issue: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 0013-4651
Publisher:
The Electrochemical Society
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
25 ENERGY STORAGE; 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; Electrochemical energy storage; Low-cost anodes; Potassium-ion batteries; Tire Recycling; Tire-derived carbon

Citation Formats

Li, Yunchao, Adams, Ryan A., Arora, Anjela, Pol, Vilas G., Levine, Alan M., Lee, Richard J., Akato, Kokouvi, Naskar, Amit K., and Paranthaman, Mariappan Parans. Sustainable Potassium-Ion Battery Anodes Derived from Waste-Tire Rubber. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.1149/2.1391706jes.
Li, Yunchao, Adams, Ryan A., Arora, Anjela, Pol, Vilas G., Levine, Alan M., Lee, Richard J., Akato, Kokouvi, Naskar, Amit K., & Paranthaman, Mariappan Parans. Sustainable Potassium-Ion Battery Anodes Derived from Waste-Tire Rubber. United States. https://doi.org/10.1149/2.1391706jes
Li, Yunchao, Adams, Ryan A., Arora, Anjela, Pol, Vilas G., Levine, Alan M., Lee, Richard J., Akato, Kokouvi, Naskar, Amit K., and Paranthaman, Mariappan Parans. Thu . "Sustainable Potassium-Ion Battery Anodes Derived from Waste-Tire Rubber". United States. https://doi.org/10.1149/2.1391706jes. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1376631.
@article{osti_1376631,
title = {Sustainable Potassium-Ion Battery Anodes Derived from Waste-Tire Rubber},
author = {Li, Yunchao and Adams, Ryan A. and Arora, Anjela and Pol, Vilas G. and Levine, Alan M. and Lee, Richard J. and Akato, Kokouvi and Naskar, Amit K. and Paranthaman, Mariappan Parans},
abstractNote = {The recycling of waste-tire rubber is of critical importance since the discarded tires pose serious environmental and health hazards to our society. Here, we report a new application for hard-carbon materials derived from waste-tires as anodes in potassium-ion batteries. The sustainable tire-derived carbons show good reversible potassium insertion at relatively high rates. Long-term stability tests exhibit capacities of 155 and 141 mAh g–1 for carbon pyrolyzed at 1100°C and 1600°C, respectively, after 200 cycles at current rate of C/2. As a result, this study provides an alternative solution for inexpensive and environmental benign potassium-ion battery anode materials.},
doi = {10.1149/2.1391706jes},
journal = {Journal of the Electrochemical Society},
number = 6,
volume = 164,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Apr 13 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Thu Apr 13 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}

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