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Highly graphitized carbon nanosheets with embedded Ni nanocrystals as anode for Li-ion batteries

Francisco Javier Soler-Piña1, Celia Hernández-Rentero1, Alvaro Caballero1(), Julián Morales1(), Enrique Rodríguez-Castellón2, Jesús Canales-Vázquez3
Dpto. Química Inorgánica e Ingeniería Química, Instituto de Química Fina y Nanoquímica, Universidad de Córdoba, 14071 Córdoba, Spain
Dpto. Química Inorgánica, Cristalografía y Mineralogía, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Málaga, 29071 Málaga, Spain
Instituto de Energías Renovables, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Paseo de La Investigación 1, 02071 Albacete, Spain
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A C/Ni composite was prepared via thermal decomposition of a nickel oleate complex at 700 °C, yielding disperse Ni nanocrystals with an average size of 20 nm, encapsulated by carbon nanosheets as deduced from transmission electron microscopy (TEM) images and confirmed from X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). Furthermore, the X-ray diffraction pattern revealed a good ordering of the carbon layers, forced by the Ni encapsulation to adopt a bending structure. Considering the close interaction between the graphitized framework and the metallic nanoparticles we have studied the properties of the composite as an anode for Li-ion batteries. Compared with other nanostructured synthetic carbons, this carbon composite has a low voltage hysteresis and a modest irreversible capacity value, properties that play a significant role in its behaviour as electrodes in full cell configuration. At moderate rate values, 0.25 C, the electrode delivers an average capacity value around 723 mAh·g-1 on cycling, among the highest values so far reported for this carbon type. At higher rate values, 1 C, the average capacity values delivered by the cell on cycling decrease, around 205 mAh·g-1, but it maintains good capacity retention, a coulombic efficiency close to 100% after the first cycles and recovery of the capacity values when the rate is restored from 3 to 0.1 C.

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carbon nanosheetsnickel nanoparticlesanodelithium batteries

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Nano Research
Volume 13 Issue 1,
January 2020
Pages 86-94
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-019-2576-4
Cite this article:
Javier Soler-Piña F, Hernández-Rentero C, Caballero A, et al. Highly graphitized carbon nanosheets with embedded Ni nanocrystals as anode for Li-ion batteries. Nano Research, 2020, 13(1): 86-94. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-019-2576-4
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AnodesCarbon compositesGraphitizationHigh resolution transmission electron microscopyLithium batteriesMolecular biologyNanocrystalsNanoparticlesNanosheetsNickel compoundsX-ray photoelectron spectroscopy
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