JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES
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2015
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IF 6.217
Zhantao Liu,Xusong Qin,Hui Xu,Guohua Chen
In this study, a one-pot sintering process incorporating sol–gel preparation route and in-situ carbon coating was proposed for the synthesis of carbon-coated nanosized LiTi 2 (PO 4 ) 3 . Experimental results show that the prepared LiTi 2 (PO 4 ) 3 particles are of high crystallinity and well-coated by turbostratic carbon. Attributed to nanosized particles and enhanced conductivity provided by turbostratic carbon coating, the carbon-coated LiTi 2 (PO 4 ) 3 showed high rate performance and good cycling life in aqueous electrolyte. Particularly, the carbon-coated LiTi 2 (PO 4 ) 3 exhibited initial specific capacities of 103 and 89 mAh g −1 , and retained 80.6% and 97% of the initial capacities after 120 cycles at 1C and 10C in aqueous electrolyte, respectively. The high rate performance and good cycling life of carbon-coated LiTi 2 (PO 4 ) 3 in aqueous electrolyte reveal its potential as negative electrode in aqueous lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and industrial-scale energy storage systems .
研究领域:
材料科学
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电化学
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能源存储
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纳米技术
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无机化学
✓ 已验证
DOI
高影响因子
JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
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2019
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IF 4.175
Chunru Li,He Song,Changming Mao,Hongrui Peng,Guicun Li
Antimony (Sb) is an attractive anode material for lithium-ion batteries with high theoretical capacity. However, its practical application is greatly hindered by the rapid capacity fading due to the large volume expansion during lithiation. Tuning the morphology of active materials at the nanoscale or designing reasonable components is essential to address this issue. Employing an antimony sulfide nanorod as semi-sacrificial template, here, we successfully synthesize one-dimensional MoS 2 sheets-decorated Sb@Sb 2 S 3 @C(MoS 2 -Sb@Sb 2 S 3 @C) nano-structure via facile thermal carbonization of Mo-polypyrrole complex coating film. During annealing, metallic Sb from the partial reduction of Sb 2 S 3 nanorods is embedded into amorphous carbon nanotubes that are derived from polypyrrole and simultaneously MoS 2 nanosheets forms on the surface of Sb-Sb 2 S 3 -C nanostructures. This unique hierarchical tubular composite not only can serve as robust skeleton frameworks for accommodating volume changes of metallic Sb and Sb 2 S 3 during cell cycling, but also are characterized by high electronic conductivity (because of the amorphous carbon nanotubes and metallic Sb) and abundant active sites, both of which are beneficial for the improvement of Li-ion storage properties. As expected, the MoS 2 -Sb@Sb 2 S 3 @C composite exhibit a high specific capacity (1596 mAh g −1 at 0.1 A g −1 ), high rate capability (481 mAh g −1 at 5 A g −1 and 355 mAh g −1 at 8 A g −1 ), and stable cycling performance (760 mAh g −1 maintained after 100 cycles at 1 A g −1 ). Our work potentially sheds some light on future development of alloy-type anodes for battery applications.
研究领域:
材料科学
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电化学
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纳米科技
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能源存储
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电池技术
✓ 已验证
DOI
高影响因子
JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
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2017
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IF 3.133
Jianguang Jia,Chunmei Liu,Yuan Lin,Xiaowen Zhou
Charge recombination is an important factor that limits the cell efficiency of quantum dot sensitized solar cells (QDSSCs). Herein, we report a facile way to improve the cell performance of CdSe sensitized ZnO QDSSC by overcoating a thin layer of ZnSe on CdSe/ZnO film through a successive ionic layer adsorption and reaction (SILAR) procedure. Photovoltaic investigations indicate that ZnSe overcoating can increase photocurrent and photovoltage of the cell, resulting in significant enhancement of the cell efficiency, which is much better than the widely used traditional ZnS material. The superior role of ZnSe overcoating is ascribed to its large inhibition of charge recombination loss owing to its suitable band structure, efficient passivation of ZnO and CdSe QDs as well as its small lattice mismatch with CdSe that leads to the large decrease of surface/interface defects in CdSe/ZnO photoanode . This finding provides an alternative efficient way to enhance the cell performance of ZnO based QDSSC by suppressing the charge recombination.
研究领域:
材料科学
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纳米科技
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能源化学
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半导体物理
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光伏技术
✓ 已验证
DOI
高影响因子
Energy Technology
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2018
·Vol. 6
·期 11
·2139-2145
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IF 3.175
Wei Pan,Wenjie Peng,Guochun Yan,Huajun Guo,Zhixing Wang,Xinhai Li,Weihua Gui,Jiexi Wang,Ning Chen
This study focuses on suppressing the voltage decay and improving the electrochemical performance of Li-rich and manganese-based (LRM) material by Nb 2 O 5 coating, which is realized by an effective soft-chemical route using a mixture of ethanol and water as co-solvent. After Nb 2 O 5 coating, the resulted material demonstrates superior electrochemical performance as cathode material for LIBs. Particularly, it shows an excellent capacity retention of 98 % after 200 cycles at 1 C (1 C=250 mA g −1 ). Voltage decay within cycling is also obviously suppressed by Nb 2 O 5 coating. Moreover, it exhibits superior rate capacities, delivering 189 and 152 mAh g −1 at high current densities of 2 and 5 C, respectively. The improved electrochemical performance of Nb 2 O 5 coated sample can be attributed to that Nb 2 O 5 can suppress the phase transformation and voltage decay by acting as not only a fast ion conductor to accelerate the lithium ion diffusion at the cathode/electrolyte interface, but also an inert protective layer to reduce the direct contact between the cathode and electrolyte.
研究领域:
材料科学
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电化学
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能源存储
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无机非金属材料
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固态离子学
✓ 已验证
DOI
高影响因子
Small
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2019
·Vol. 15
·期 19
·1900484
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IF 10.856
Xiaosheng Tang,Weiwei Chen,Zhengzheng Liu,Juan Du,Zhiqiang Yao,Yi Huang,Cheng Chen,Zhaoqi Yang,Tongchao Shi,Wei Hu,Zhigang Zang,Yu Chen,Yuxin Leng
All-inorganic semiconductor perovskite quantum dots (QDs) with outstanding optoelectronic properties have already been extensively investigated and implemented in various applications. However, great challenges exist for the fabrication of nanodevices including toxicity, fast anion-exchange reactions, and unsatisfactory stability. Here, the ultrathin, core–shell structured SiO 2 coated Mn 2+ doped CsPbX 3 (X = Br, Cl) QDs are prepared via one facile reverse microemulsion method at room temperature. By incorporation of a multibranched capping ligand of trioctylphosphine oxide, it is found that the breakage of the CsPbMnX 3 core QDs contributed from the hydrolysis of silane could be effectively blocked. The thickness of silica shell can be well-controlled within 2 nm, which gives the CsPbMnX 3 @SiO 2 QDs a high quantum yield of 50.5% and improves thermostability and water resistance. Moreover, the mixture of CsPbBr 3 QDs with green emission and CsPbMnX 3 @SiO 2 QDs with yellow emission presents no ion exchange effect and provides white light emission. As a result, a white light-emitting diode (LED) is successfully prepared by the combination of a blue on-chip LED device and the above perovskite mixture. The as-prepared white LED displays a high luminous efficiency of 68.4 lm W −1 and a high color-rendering index of Ra = 91, demonstrating their broad future applications in solid-state lighting fields.
研究领域:
材料科学
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纳米技术
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光电子学
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半导体物理
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固体照明
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无机化学
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功能材料
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DOI
高影响因子
APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
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2020
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IF 6.182
Shuya Wang,Yaxin Chen,Bin Cui,Bo Li,Shuxuan Wang,Yanhua Cui,Zhicheng Ju,Quanchao Zhuang
Computer simulation accelerates the selection and application of new electrode materials. The First-principles calculations based on density functional theory (DFT) are performed to evaluate the performance as cathode for Potassium ion batteries (PIBs) on the structure, electronic conductivity and ionic diffusion of O-doped KMnF 3 . After taking comprehensive consideration of the calculation results, the nanostructured O-doped KMnF 3 was synthesized and the structure and electrochemical properties were further improved by carbon coating. Here, we report a new etch pathway to create a new class of carbon-coated perovskite fluoride to improve the performance of PIB in terms of rate capability and cycle stability. These new material design concepts will help discover and synthesize new materials for PIBs.
研究领域:
材料科学
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电化学
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计算材料学
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能源存储
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无机化学
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纳米材料
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固体物理
✓ 已验证
DOI
高影响因子
CELLULOSE
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2018
·Vol. 25
·期 10
·5807-5819
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IF 3.809
Sun Zhuangzhi,Du Shanqi,Li Fei,Yang Lu,Zhang Dan,Song Wenlong
A nanocomposite soft actuator based on porous high-conductivity electrode membrane, which was composed of biopolymer cellulose mixed with chitosan and highly conductive nanoparticles generated by reduced graphene oxide encapsulated multi-walled carbon nanotube, was developed in this paper. No new substance was discovered in the regenerated electrode layer through the scanning analysis from FT-IR and XRD. Actuators exhibited significant enhancement in peak to peak displacement, which was 3.64 times increased than the traditional value at 5 V 0.1 Hz. With the test of solid-state electric double layer capacitor, actuators showed the highest specific capacitance (10.695 F g −1 ) at the current density of 1 A g −1 , the lowest internal resistance (9.2 Ω g −1 ) in the frequency range of 10 5 –10 −2 Hz, and the lowest energy density (901 Wh kg −1 ) at the current density of 10 A g −1 , which demonstrated the absolute advantages in the conductivity and channels for electrons. These findings suggest that research on porous high-conductivity electrode layer holds great promise in the further study of higher performance actuators.
研究领域:
生物材料学
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纳米医学
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组织工程
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柔性电子学
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生物力学
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智能驱动系统
✓ 已验证
DOI
高影响因子
ELECTROCHIMICA ACTA
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2016
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IF 4.803
Na Li,ChunYi Zhi,Haiyan Zhang
The preparation of high specific-capacity pseudocapacitive transition-metal-oxide/hydroxide (TMH) materials into transparent micro-structure electrodes is a great challenge and has become the bottleneck restricting the performance of transparent flexible supercapacitors . Beyond that, extending the operating voltage window is an urgent need for improving energy density . Here, Co(OH) 2 nanosheets and amorphous FeOOH nanowires were prepared into transparent films through a simple and scalable bio-inspired method at the air-solution interface. Both nanostructures are enwrapped in graphene shells (Co@Gr-TFandFe@Gr-TF) for use as transparent asymmetric pseudocapacitive electrodes. The unique encapsulation structures (1) provide pseudocapacitive electrode materials, especially an amorphous FeOOH structure cathode, (2) build up rapid three-dimensional electron and ion transport pathways together with the underlying ITO layer, (3) alleviate the exfoliation and dissolution of the active materials into electrolyte, and (4) extend the potential window of the FeOOH cathode from −0.8 ∼ 0 V to −1.2 ∼ 0 V with minimal cycling stability degradation. The asymmetric transparent and flexible supercapacitor based on Co@Gr-TF//Fe@Gr-TF operated at 1.8 V exhibits good transparency (50.5% at 550 nm), high specific capacitance (25.5 mF cm −2 , one order higher than the maximum value reported for FFT-GP), and high energy density (1.04 mWh cm −3 , comparable to that of nontransparent devices) as well as a long cycle life (10 000 cycles) with high-capacity retention (83.5%).
研究领域:
材料科学
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纳米科技
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电化学
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能源存储
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柔性电子学
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功能薄膜
✓ 已验证
DOI
高影响因子
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