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Title: A 3D porous honeycomb carbon as Na-ion battery anode material with high capacity, excellent rate performance, and robust stability

Abstract

Motivated by the synthesis of three-dimensional (3D) honeycomb carbon structures and the subsequent theoretical prediction of an energetically more favorable hexagonal carbon phase composed of 28 carbon atoms in the unit cell (hC28) with ordered pores, excellent mechanical properties, and metallic feature, we explore its potential for a Na-ion battery (NIB) anode material. Using density functional theory based calculations, we find that hC28 is a promising candidate whose specific capacity of 717 mAh/g is almost three times larger than that of hard carbon (~250 mAh/g). In addition, migration barrier of Na ions along the honeycomb channel is only 0.08 eV and the volume change during the charging/discharging process is merely 2.30%, which are much less than those of other carbon-based NIB anode materials. The average voltage is also low (0.36 eV) which can provide high operating voltage when connected to the cathode. Finally, these encouraging results would pave the way towards the development of hC28 as NIB anode with high capacity, excellent rate performance, low open-circuit voltage, and long-term cycle life.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [2];  [2];  [3]
  1. Peking Univ., Beijing (China); Virginia Commonwealth Univ., Richmond, VA (United States)
  2. Peking Univ., Beijing (China)
  3. Virginia Commonwealth Univ., Richmond, VA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Virginia Commonwealth Univ., Richmond, VA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); Ministry of Science and Technology of China; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1850115
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1712811
Grant/Contract Number:  
FG02-96ER45579; NSFC-11974028; NSFC-21773004; 2016YFE0127300; 2017YFA0205003
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Carbon
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 168; Journal Issue: C; Journal ID: ISSN 0008-6223
Publisher:
Elsevier
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; Chemistry; Materials Science

Citation Formats

Zhou, Wenyang, Xie, Huanhuan, Wang, Shuo, Wang, Qian, and Jena, Puru. A 3D porous honeycomb carbon as Na-ion battery anode material with high capacity, excellent rate performance, and robust stability. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1016/j.carbon.2020.06.070.
Zhou, Wenyang, Xie, Huanhuan, Wang, Shuo, Wang, Qian, & Jena, Puru. A 3D porous honeycomb carbon as Na-ion battery anode material with high capacity, excellent rate performance, and robust stability. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2020.06.070
Zhou, Wenyang, Xie, Huanhuan, Wang, Shuo, Wang, Qian, and Jena, Puru. Wed . "A 3D porous honeycomb carbon as Na-ion battery anode material with high capacity, excellent rate performance, and robust stability". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2020.06.070. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1850115.
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title = {A 3D porous honeycomb carbon as Na-ion battery anode material with high capacity, excellent rate performance, and robust stability},
author = {Zhou, Wenyang and Xie, Huanhuan and Wang, Shuo and Wang, Qian and Jena, Puru},
abstractNote = {Motivated by the synthesis of three-dimensional (3D) honeycomb carbon structures and the subsequent theoretical prediction of an energetically more favorable hexagonal carbon phase composed of 28 carbon atoms in the unit cell (hC28) with ordered pores, excellent mechanical properties, and metallic feature, we explore its potential for a Na-ion battery (NIB) anode material. Using density functional theory based calculations, we find that hC28 is a promising candidate whose specific capacity of 717 mAh/g is almost three times larger than that of hard carbon (~250 mAh/g). In addition, migration barrier of Na ions along the honeycomb channel is only 0.08 eV and the volume change during the charging/discharging process is merely 2.30%, which are much less than those of other carbon-based NIB anode materials. The average voltage is also low (0.36 eV) which can provide high operating voltage when connected to the cathode. Finally, these encouraging results would pave the way towards the development of hC28 as NIB anode with high capacity, excellent rate performance, low open-circuit voltage, and long-term cycle life.},
doi = {10.1016/j.carbon.2020.06.070},
journal = {Carbon},
number = C,
volume = 168,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Aug 12 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Wed Aug 12 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}

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