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Self-supported hard carbon anode from fungus-treated basswood towards sodium-ion batteries

Ping Wang1,2, Yu-Jie Guo3, Wan-Ping Chen3, Hui Duan3, Huan Ye2, Hu-Rong Yao4, Ya-Xia Yin3( ), Fei-Fei Cao2( )
Institute of Advanced Materials, Key Lab of Fluorine and Silicon for Energy Materials and Chemistry of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang 330022, China
College of Science, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China
Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
Fujian Provincial Engineering Technology Research Center of Solar Energy Conversion and Energy Storage, Fuzhou 350117, China
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A bioselective synthesis strategy is proposed to enable hard carbon from basswood with an improved graphitization degree and a low tortuosity, which endows good rate capability and cycling stability as well as high initial Coulombic efficiency as self-supported anode for sodium-ion batteries. In particular, the hard carbon anode from fungus-pretreated basswood delivers a large slope capacity and maintains well even at high current density.

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Hard carbon derived from biomass is regarded as a promising anode material for sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) because of its low operating potential, high capacity, resource availability, and low cost. However, scientific and technological challenges still exist to prepare hard carbon with a high initial Coulombic efficiency (ICE), an excellent rate capability, and good cycling stability. In this work, we report a self-supported hard carbon electrode from fungus-pretreated basswood with an improved graphitization degree and a low tortuosity. Compared with the hard carbon derived from basswood, the hard carbon electrode from fungus-pretreated basswood has an improved rate capability of 242.3 mAh·g−1 at 200 mA·g−1and cycling stability with 93.9% of its capacity retention after 200 cycles at 40 mA·g−1, as well as the increased ICE from 84.3% to 88.2%. Additionally, ex-situ X-ray diffraction indicates that Na+ adsorption caused the sloping capacity, whereas Na+ intercalation between interlayer spacing corresponded to the low potential plateau capacity. This work provides a new perspective for the preparation of high-performance hard carbon and gains the in-depth understanding of Na storage mechanism.

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sodium-ion batteryanodehard carbonfungus-pretreated basswood

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Nano Research
Volume 16 Issue 3,
March 2023
Pages 3832-3838
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-022-4708-5
Cite this article:
Wang P, Guo Y-J, Chen W-P, et al. Self-supported hard carbon anode from fungus-treated basswood towards sodium-ion batteries. Nano Research, 2023, 16(3): 3832-3838. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-022-4708-5
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Received: 20 May 2022
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