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Stable wide-temperature and low volume expansion Al batteries: Integrating few-layer graphene with multifunctional cobalt boride nanocluster as positive electrode

Li-Li Chen1,2,3,§, Na Li1,2,3,§, Huifeng Shi5, Yuefei Zhang5, Wei-Li Song1,2( ), Shuqiang Jiao1,4( ), Haosen Chen1,2, Daining Fang1,2,6
Institute of Advanced Structure Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
Beijing Key Laboratory of Lightweight Multi-functional Composite Materials and Structures, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
School of Materials Science & Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
State Key Laboratory of Advanced Metallurgy, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
Institute of Microstructure and Property of Advanced Materials, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China
State Key Laboratory for Turbulence and Complex Systems, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

§ Li-Li Chen and Na Li contributed equally to this work.

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To achieve stable positive electrode for promoting the overall electrochemical performance of Al batteries (ABs), here novel cobalt boride (CoB) nanoclusters are synthesized to construct composite electrodes with few-layer graphene (FLG). Due to the presence of amorphous channels in the employed CoB nanoclusters, the ABs with FLG/CoB composite positive electrodes exhibit high rate capability and both mechanical and electrochemical stability in the ABs. With assistance of in situ scanning electron microscopy (SEM), the observation results suggest that the positive electrode of CoB nanoclusters holds almost ignorable volume variation upon electrochemical processes, which substantially alleviates the massive electrode expansion induced by the anion intercalation in the composite positive electrode. Interestingly, the composite positive electrodes provide stable reversible energy storage capability within a broadened temperature range (-30-60 °C), promising a novel strategy to design advanced ABs positive electrodes with enhanced overall energy storage performance.

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Al batteriespositive electrodecobalt boride nanoclustersionic liquidbroad temperature

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Nano Research
Volume 13 Issue 2,
February 2020
Pages 419-429
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-020-2624-0
Cite this article:
Chen L-L, Li N, Shi H, et al. Stable wide-temperature and low volume expansion Al batteries: Integrating few-layer graphene with multifunctional cobalt boride nanocluster as positive electrode. Nano Research, 2020, 13(2): 419-429. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-020-2624-0
Topics:
AluminumBoridesCobaltElectric batteries Energy storageGrapheneNanoclustersScanning electron microscopy

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Received: 09 September 2019
Revised: 16 November 2019
Accepted: 26 December 2019
Published: 21 January 2020
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