JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
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2023
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IF 9.9
Zecheng Yang,Liluo Shi,Hao Wang,Jianzhen Xiong,Xuena Xu,Limei Sun,Jiangmin Jiang,Quanchao Zhuang,Yaxin Chen,Zhicheng Ju
Carbon nanosheets (CNS) have garnered significant interest as anode materials for potassium-ion batteries (PIBs) due to the excellent potassium storage kinetics and rate performance. Moreover, tuning the thickness of CNS can enhance the potassium storage performance by exposing abundant surface active sites and shortening the K + migration path. Herein, crystallization-induced thickness tuning of carbon nanosheets in polyvinyl pyrrolidone-potassium chloride (PVP-KCl) solution is reported to enhance the fast potassium storage. PVP with varying molecular weights is employed to induce the crystallization behavior of KCl, leading to the formation of KCl grains with controllable sizes. Concurrently, these KCl grains act as hard templates for dispersing the PVP molecules to fabricate carbon nanosheets on the surface during annealing. PVP with high molecular weight is beneficial for hindering ion migration to reduce crystal sizes, which can decrease the thickness of carbon nanosheets. The ultrathin structure exposes abundant potassium storage sites, endowing CNS with high reversible capacity (359.0 mAh/g at 100 mA/g). The reduction in the migration path of K + ions facilitate rapid ion and electron transport kinetics, resulting in rate performance with a capacity of 181.9 mAh/g at 1 A/g. Our work extends the application of the crystallization-induced strategy for controllable designing carbon nanosheets, and puts forward some conceptions on improving the potassium storage performance of carbon anode materials.
研究领域:
材料科学
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电化学
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纳米能源
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储能技术
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碳材料
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电池材料
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Small
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2022
·Vol. 18
·期 16
·2107346
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IF 15.153
Ze Feng,Shan Zhang,Xiaobing Huang,Yurong Ren,Dan Sun,Yougen Tang,Qunxuan Yan,Haiyan Wang
Nickel-rich cathode materials, owing to their high energy density and low cost, are considered to be one of the cathodes with the most potential in next-generation lithium-ion batteries. Unfortunately, this kind of cathode with highly active surface is easy to react with H 2 O and CO 2 when exposed to ambient air, resulting in the formation of lithium impurities and interfacial phase transition as well as deterioration of the electrochemical properties. In this work, the evolution mechanism of the structure and interface of LiNi 0.8 Co 0.1 Mn 0.1 O 2 during air-exposure is systematically investigated. Furthermore, a facile reviving strategy is proposed to restore the degraded LiNi 0.8 Co 0.1 Mn 0.1 O 2 by using LiPO 3 as the repair agent. The lithium impurities on the surface of the degraded sample can transform into the repair/coating layer, and part of the rock salt phase on the subsurface can revive to layered phase after repair heat treatment. As a result, the optimized cathode delivers an initial discharge capacity of 198.3 mAh g −1 at 0.1C and a capacity retention of 85.5% after 50 cycles. Although slightly lower than the bare sample (201 mAh g −1 and 88%), they are obviously higher than the exposed samples (166.5 mAh g −1 and 40.4%). The regenerated electrochemical properties should be attributed to the multifunctional repair layer that can efficiently reduce the surface lithium impurities, prevent the corrosion of electrolyte, and improve the interfacial Li + diffusion kinetics. This work can effectively reduce the waste of the degraded Ni-rich ternary materials and realize the transformation of “waste” into wealth.
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材料科学
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电化学
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能源存储
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电池技术
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界面工程
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PARTICLE & PARTICLE SYSTEMS CHARACTERIZATION
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2020
·Vol. 37
·期 8
·2000164
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IF 3.099
Liwei Su,Linhui Liu,Jinpei Hei,Huan Chen,Lianbang Wang,Yuanhao Wang,Manman Ren
V 2 O 5 , as a lithium-free cathode material, has inherent defects such as sluggish kinetics and volume change and, at the same time, requires a lithium metal anode that tends to form dendrites in liquid electrolytes. Both the lithium dendrite and the flammable electrolyte solvent bring longtime safety issues. This work introduces nonflammable inorganic–organic composite solid electrolyte to inhibit the growth of the lithium dendrite and suppress the instability caused by V 2 O 5 nanometerization. However, the long-term cycling and rate performances are still insufficient even when reducing V 2 O 5 size to about 50 nm. As an improvement, sub-10 nm V 2 O 5 /C nanosheets are designed and prepared using corn stalks as precursors through simple impregnation and calcination process. The V 2 O 5 /C offers a much better electrode/electrolyte contact and interface stability than bulk V 2 O 5 and commercial V 2 O 5 in the inorganic–organic composite solid electrolyte. The discharge capacity is 228 mAh g −1 at 0.1 C after 50 cycles and ≈110 mAh g −1 at 2.0 C.
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材料科学
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电化学
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纳米能源
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固态电池
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电极材料设计
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Small
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2020
·Vol. 16
·期 22
·2000870
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IF 11.459
Kezhong Lv,Pengfei Wang,Chao Wang,Zihan Shen,Zhenda Lu,Huigang Zhang,Mingbo Zheng,Ping He,Haoshen Zhou
Lithium–sulfur batteries, as one of promising next-generation energy storage devices, hold great potential to meet the demands of electric vehicles and grids due to their high specific energy. However, the sluggish kinetics and the inevitable “shuttle effect” severely limit the practical application of this technology. Recently, design of composite cathode with effective catalysts has been reported as an essential way to overcome these issues. In this work, oxygen-deficient ferric oxide (Fe 2 O 3− x ), prepared by lithiothermic reduction, is used as a low-cost and effective cathodic catalyst. By introducing a small amount of Fe 2 O 3− x into the cathode, the battery can deliver a high capacity of 512 mAh g −1 over 500 cycles at 4 C, with a capacity fade rate of 0.049% per cycle. In addition, a self-supporting porous S@KB/Fe 2 O 3− x cathode with a high sulfur loading of 12.73 mg cm −2 is prepared by freeze-drying, which can achieve a high areal capacity of 12.24 mAh cm −2 at 0.05 C. Both the calculative and experimental results demonstrate that the Fe 2 O 3− x has a strong adsorption toward soluble polysulfides and can accelerate their subsequent conversion to insoluble products. As a result, this work provides a low-cost and effective catalyst candidate for the practical application of lithium–sulfur batteries.
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电化学
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能源材料
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纳米催化
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储能技术
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材料科学
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
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2024
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IF 13.3
Bing Yang,Bo Wang,Peng Li,Jing Chen,Bo Li,Lushan Ma,Futian Zhang,Haitao Guo,Yunfeng Tian,Xuzhuo Sun,Bo Chi
In this study, we developed an innovative strategy to fabricate perovskite oxide powder with 12.356 m 2 /g of specific surface area. Polyacrylamide hydrogel was used as a template to prepare Sm 0.5 Sr 0.5 CoO 3-δ (SSC) powders with lamellar structure. The three-dimensional interconnected structured SSC electrodes with lamellar connections were fabricate using screen printing method. As a result, the oxygen vacancy concentration of the SSC powder obtained by the polyacrylamide template method was 0.625 and 0.642 at 650 °C and 700 °C respectively. At 650°C, the polarization resistance value was 0.11 Ω cm 2 for the novel SSC-PAM-V cathode. Compared with the SSC-SG cathode, the polarization resistance and activation energy of SSC-PAM-V were reduced by 50 % and 6.9 %, respectively. Furthermore, in a single cell with SSC-PAM-V electrodes, we achieved a maximum power density of 935 and 1243 mW cm −2 at 650 °C and 700 °C under wet H 2 conditions, demonstrating good electrochemical output performance. The layered porous electrode was not only suitable for the diffusion of oxygen, but also for increasing the reactive active sites. The proposed powder prepared with polyacrylamide hydrogel as template, was not only suitable for the optimization of perovskite oxide, but also for the application in other types of catalysis, providing the potential for improving the electro-catalytic activity of perovskite electrodes.
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材料科学
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电化学
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能源材料
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催化化学
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固体离子学
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CERAMICS INTERNATIONAL
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2021
·Vol. 47
·期 14
·20310-20316
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IF 4.527
Yang Yan,Linlin Zang,Tianwei Dou,Haicheng Li,Liguo Sun,Yanhong Zhang
In this work, we prepared a hollow Co 3 O 4 nanoparticles (NPs) immobilized reduced graphene oxide (rGO)/carbon monolith (HCGCM) via a one-step carbonization method. The doping of nanomaterial and transition metal oxide can improve the poor conductivity and low capacitance of pure carbonaceous materials. The optimal addition concentration of polystyrene microspheres as a template provided the HCGCM composite with a hierarchical pore structure and a large specific surface area (1600 cm 2 /g), which is conducive to generating sufficient electroactive sites. At the same time, three dimensional (3D) interconnected pores shorten ion transport paths and reduced diffusion resistance of ions. Due to the existence of pseudocapacitive behavior, the HCGCM composite, as an electrode material working in a three-electrode system, achieved a high capacitance value of 1106 F/g at a current density of 1 A/g. In two-electrode system, the asymmetric supercapacitor had excellent stability performance and remained about 86.7% capacitance after 5000 cycles test. Moreover, it also exhibited a maximum energy density of 66.7 Wh/kg at power density of 750 W/kg. Thus, the strategy of manufacturing 3D porous electrodes is beneficial to improve the overall electrochemical performance of supercapacitors .
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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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功能材料
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Journal of Energy Chemistry
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2023
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IF 13.1
Xuexia Lan,Xingyu Xiong,Jie Cui,Renzong Hu
In the past two decades, a lot of high-capacity conversion-type metal oxides have been intensively studied as alternative anode materials for Li-ion batteries with higher energy density. Unfortunately, their large voltage hysteresis (0.8–1.2 V) within reversed conversion reactions results in huge round-trip inefficiencies and thus lower energy efficiency (50%–75%) in full cells than those with graphite anodes. This remains a long-term open question and has been the most serious drawback toward application of metal oxide anodes. Here we clarify the origins of voltage hysteresis in the typical SnO 2 anode and propose a universal strategy to minimize it. With the established in situ phosphating to generate metal phosphates during reversed conversion reactions in synergy with boosted reaction kinetics by the added P and Mo, the huge voltage hysteresis of 0.9 V in SnO 2 , SnO 2 -Mo, and 0.6 V in SnO 2 -P anodes is minimized to 0.3 V in a ternary SnO 2 -Mo-P (SOMP) composite, along with stable high capacity of 936 mA h g −1 after 800 cycles. The small voltage hysteresis can remain stable even the SOMP anode operated at high current rate of 10 A g −1 and wide-range temperatures from 60 to −30 °C, resulting in a high energy efficiency of 88.5% in full cells. This effective strategy to minimize voltage hysteresis has also been demonstrated in Fe 2 O 3 , Co 3 O 4 -basded conversion-type anodes. This work provides important guidance to advance the high-capacity metal oxide anodes from laboratory to industrialization.
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电化学
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材料科学
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能源存储
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纳米材料
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固态化学
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电池技术
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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
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2017
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IF 3.133
Ming Li,Xiaoqin Yuan,Haoran Ruan,Xiandong Wang,Yongping Liu,Zhenhuan Lu,Jiefeng Hai
A new method for synthesizing freestanding PbS-CH 3 NH 3 PbI 3 (MAPI) core-shell nanoparticles (NPs) with enhanced light absorption and photoelectric properties was reported. The transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and energy dispersive spectrometer (EDS) analysis confirmed the core-shell structure of the obtained sample. The Vis-NIR spectra proved the core-shell sample absorbed light both in visible and near infrared region . For comparison, oleic acid/oleylamine molecule capping PbS NPs, MAPI molecule capping PbS NPs, and PbS-MAPI core-shell NPs were used to fabricate Schottky solar cells. PbS-MAPI core-shell NPs based solar cells delivered a photocurrent response from both the PbS and MAPI, and achieved the highest overall PCE.
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材料科学
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纳米科技
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光电子学
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能源材料
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半导体物理
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JOURNAL OF POWER SOURCES
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2017
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IF 6.395
Zongbao Zhang,Yang Zhou,Yangyang Cai,Hui Liu,Qiqi Qin,Xubing Lu,Xingsen Gao,Lingling Shui,Sujuan Wu,Jun-Ming Liu
Planar perovskite solar cells (PSCs) based on CH 3 NH 3 PbI 3- x (SCN) x (SCN: thiocyanate) active layer and low-temperature processed TiO 2 films are fabricated by a sequential two-step method in ambient air. Here, alkali thiocyanates (NaSCN, KSCN) are added into Pb(SCN) 2 precursor to improve the microstructure of CH 3 NH 3 PbI 3- x (SCN) x perovskite layers and performance of the as-prepared PSCs. At the optimum concentrations of alkali thiocyanates as additives, the as-prepared NaSCN-modified and KSCN-modified PSCs demonstrate the efficiencies of 16.59% and 15.63% respectively, being much higher than 12.73% of the reference PSCs without additives. This improvement is primarily ascribed to the enhanced electron transport , reduced recombination rates and much improved microstructures with large grain size and low defect density at grain boundaries. Importantly, it is revealed that the modified PSCs at the optimized concentrations of alkali thiocyanates additives exhibit remarkably improved stability than the reference PSCs against humid circumstance, and a continuous exposure to humid air without encapsulation over 45 days only records about 5% degradation of the efficiency. These findings provide a facile approach to fabricate efficient and stable PSCs by low processing temperature in ambient air, both of which are highly preferred for future practical applications of PSCs.
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材料科学
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能源科学
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纳米技术
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光电化学
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半导体器件
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薄膜物理
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Nano Energy
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2020
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IF 16.602
Long Li,Chun Fang,Wenfei Wei,Lei Zhang,Zhao Ye,Gang He,Yunhui Huang
The huge volume change of silicon anode during cycling results in unstable solid electrolyte interface (SEI), causing rapid performance degradation . Natural SEI layer has a heterogeneous structure, results in the inhomogeneous Li + diffusion. The repeated destruction and regeneration of SEI aggravate the inhomogeneity of Li + diffusion at the interface, leading to non-uniform alloy reaction in the Si bulk. In this work, the silicon surface is passivated by an ultrathin uniform chitosan layer with abundant lithiophilic groups. The capacity of chitosan-coated Si (Si@CS) could reach 1500 mAh g −1 at a current density of 1 A g −1 , and the capacity retention remains 91% after 400 cycles. It is demonstrated that the oxygen and nitrogen atoms in chitosan are coordinated with Li + , providing uniformly distributed Li + transfer sites, results in a homogeneous Li + flux in the surface layer. Interestingly, a nano-scale ordered atomic arrangement is observed in the delithiated Si@CS, which contributes to more stable and reversible lithiation/delithiation reaction of the Si@CS electrode. It is proposed that optimizing the reaction interface on the Si surface is able to alter the Li-ion diffusion kinetics and structure transition behavior of silicon, which can improve the structure reversibility and stability during cycling.
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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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表面工程
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锂离子电池
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JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
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2023
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IF 9.9
Jing Jiang,Wei Wei,Zhen Ren,Yang Luo,Xinzhi Wang,Ying Xu,Mingming Chang,Lunhong Ai
Developing efficient catalysts for the dehydrogenation of ammonia borane (AB) is important for the safe storage and controlled release of hydrogen, but it is a challenging task. In this study, we designed a robust Ru-Co 3 O 4 catalyst using the Mott-Schottky effect to induce favorable charge rearrangement. The self-created electron-rich Co 3 O 4 and electron-deficient Ru sites at heterointerfaces are indispensable for the activation of the B-H bond in NH 3 BH 3 and the O H bond in H 2 O, respectively. The synergistic electronic interaction between the electron-rich Co 3 O 4 and electron-deficient Ru sites at the heterointerfaces resulted in an optimal Ru-Co 3 O 4 heterostructure that exhibited outstanding catalytic activity for the hydrolysis of AB in the presence of NaOH. The heterostructure had an extremely high hydrogen generation rate (HGR) of 12238 mL min −1 g cat -1 and an expected high turnover frequency (TOF) of 755 mol H2 mol Ru -1 min −1 at 298 K. The activation energy needed for the hydrolysis was low (36.65 kJ mol −1 ). This study opens up a new avenue for the rational design of high-performance catalysts for AB dehydrogenation based on the Mott-Schottky effect.
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催化化学
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能源材料
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纳米材料科学
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表面科学
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氢能源技术
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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
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2022
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IF 6.371
Zuocheng Luo,Qingfeng Zhang,Wei Xie,Tong Yuan,Qisheng Zang,Ning Wang,Hanxiao Fan,Shuhong Xie,Xiaoping Ouyang
Potassium ion hybrid capacitors (PIHCs) have attracted widespread attention as combining the advantages of potassium ion batteries (PIBs) with supercapacitors . However, the sluggish kinetics caused by the large radius of K + hinder the practical application of PIHCs. Herein, we synthesized a boron and fluorine co-doping interlaced network porous carbon nanofibers (BF-PCNFs), which was used as the freestanding anode of PIHCs the freestanding anode of PIHCs to alleviate large volume expansion and increase conductivity. Benefiting from the B, F co-doping and porous interlace nanostructure of BF-PCNFs, the anode shows 185 mA h g −1 under a load of 12.6 mg cm −2 , a reversible capacity of 176 mA h g −1 at 1000 mA g −1 after 6000 cycles, and the capacity retention from 100 mA g −1 to 5000 mA g −1 is 62%. Furthermore, the PIHCs based on BF-PCNFs as anode and activated carbon as cathode exhibit an energy density of 87 Wh kg −1 and a power density of 393 W kg −1 . The capacity retention is as high as 78% over 4000 cycles. Considering the exceptional rate performance, long cyclability and high-mass-loading, our work may supply a new strategy for designing novel energy storage devices with outstanding performance.
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材料科学
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电化学
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能源存储
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纳米科技
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功能材料
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