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Deep eutectic solvent assisted facile synthesis of low-dimensional hierarchical porous high-entropy oxides

Jiale Wei1,2, Kai Rong1,2, Xiaolong Li1,2, Yuchen Wang1,2, Zhen-An Qiao3, Youxing Fang1( ), Shaojun Dong1,2( )
State Key Laboratory of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, China
University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
State Key Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Preparative Chemistry, International Joint Research Laboratory of Nano-Micro Architecture Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, 2699 Qianjin Street, Changchun 130012, China
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Abstract

High-entropy-oxides (HEOs), a new class of solids that contain five or more elemental species, have attracted increasing interests owing to their unique structures and fascinating physicochemical properties. However, it is a huge challenge to construct various nanostructured, especially low-dimensional nanostructured HEOs under the high temperature synthetic conditions. Herein, a facile strategy using glucose-urea deep eutectic solvent (DES) as both a solvent and the carbon source of structure-directed template is proposed for the synthesis of various HEOs with two-dimentional (2D) nanonets and one-dimentional (1D) nanowires, including rock-salt (Co, Cu, Mg, Ni, Zn)O, spinel (Co, Cr, Fe, Mn, Ni)3O4, and perovskite La(Co, Cr, Fe, Mn, Ni)O3. The as-prepared HEOs possessed five or more uniformly dispersed metal elements, large specific surface areas (more than 25 m2·g−1), and a pure single-phase structure. In addition, high cooling rate (cooling in air or liq-N2-quenching) was indispensable to obtain a single-phase rock-salt (Co, Cu, Mg, Ni, Zn)O because of phase separation caused by copper. By taking advantage of unique features of HEOs, rock-salt (Co, Cu, Mg, Ni, Zn)O can function as a promising candidate for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) anode material, which achieved excellent cycling stability. This work provides a feasible synthetic strategy for low-dimensional hierarchical HEOs, which creates new opportunities for the stable HEOs being highly active functional materials.

Keywords

high-entropy oxidedeep eutectic solventone-/two-dimentional (1D/2D) hierarchical structurelithium-ion battery

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Nano Research
Volume 15 Issue 3,
March 2022
Pages 2756-2763
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-021-3860-7
Cite this article:
Wei J, Rong K, Li X, et al. Deep eutectic solvent assisted facile synthesis of low-dimensional hierarchical porous high-entropy oxides. Nano Research, 2022, 15(3): 2756-2763. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-021-3860-7
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Received: 15 July 2021
Revised: 29 August 2021
Accepted: 02 September 2021
Published: 05 October 2021
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