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Meso-porous amorphous Ge: Synthesis and mechanism of an anode material for Na and K storage

Zheng YiNing Lin( )Tieqiang LiYing HanYang LiYitai Qian
Department of Applied Chemistry,University of Science and Technology of China,Hefei,230026,China;
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Crystalline Ge is a highly active anode material for Li storage but inactive for Na storage because of high diffusion barrier. By in-situ Raman spectrum, we explore that the Na could reversibly alloy/dealloy with the amorphous Ge, but does not with the crystalline Ge. Herein, the amorphous Ge is fabricated by an acid-etching Zintl phase Mg2Ge route at room temperature, which shows a mesoporous architecture with a Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) surface area of 29.9 m2·g-1 and a Barrett-Joyner-Halenda (BJH) average pore diameter of 7.6 nm. This mesoporous architecture would enhance the Na-ion/electron diffusion rate and buffer the volume expansion. As a result, the as-prepared amorphous Ge shows superior Na-ion storage performance including high reversible capacity over 550 mA·h·g-1 at 0.2 C after 50 cycles, good rate capability with a capacity of 273 mA·h·g-1 maintained at 5.0 C, and long-term cycling stability with capacities of 450 mA·h·g-1 at 0.4 C after 200 cycles. For the K-ion storage, the amorphous Ge is also more active than the crystalline counter and maintains a capacity of 210 mA·h·g-1 after 100 cycles at 0.2 C.

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Yi Z, Lin N, Li T, et al. Meso-porous amorphous Ge: Synthesis and mechanism of an anode material for Na and K storage. Nano Research, 2019, 12(8): 1824-1830. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-019-2442-4
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Received: 07 March 2019
Revised: 12 May 2019
Accepted: 17 May 2019
Published: 11 June 2019
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