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Self-templating construction of hollow microspheres assembled by nanosheets with exposed active planes for sodium ion storage

Jianing Liang§, Zhizhan Li§, Jinguo Cheng, Jinlei Qin, Hongfang Liu, Deli Wang( )
Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage (Huazhong University of Science and Technology), Ministry of Education, Hubei Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry and Service Failure, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China

§ Jianing Liang and Zhizhan Li contributed equally to this work.

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Hierarchical P2-Na2/3Ni1/3Mn2/3O2 hollow microspheres assembled by nanosheets with more electrochemical active planes were obtained. The integrations of hierarchical micro/nano-structure and exposed electrochemical active planes can efficiently facilitate the Na+ diffusion and relieve the material pulverization to achieve the long cyclic stable and high rate ability in the real sense.

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P2-type layered metal oxides have been considered as one of the promising cathode candidates for high-performance Na-ion batteries (SIBs). However, it is still challenging to balance the contradiction of high energy density and long cycle life due to the structural degradation and sluggish ion diffusion dynamics. Here, the hierarchical P2-Na2/3Ni1/3Mn2/3O2 hollow microspheres assembled by nanosheets are constructed via a self-template approach. The obtained nanosheets with more exposed electrochemical active planes serving as desodiation/sodiation reactors can provide substantial Na+ channels, shorten the diffusion pathways, and accommodate the volume changes during charge/discharge process. Benefiting from the facile Na+ diffusion paths and optimal architecture modulation, the cathode delivers a high initial Coulombic efficiency of 96.0% with a high energy density of 299.7 Wh·kg−1. The highly reversible structural evolutions processes are verified by galvanostatic intermittent titration technique (GITT) and operando electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) measurement, which would significantly improve the cycle stability (83.3% capacity retention at 1.0 C over 500 loops). Furthermore, the full cell assembled by hard carbon presents a high reversible capacity of 71 mAh·g−1 at 0.2 C and promising capacity retention (91.5% after 50 cycles). The designing concept of morphological configuration in this work paves an accessible route for building high-performance electrode materials.

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sodium-ion batteriesP2-type cathodehollow microspheresself-templatenanosheets structure

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Nano Research
Volume 16 Issue 4,
April 2023
Pages 4987-4995
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-022-5221-6
Cite this article:
Liang J, Li Z, Cheng J, et al. Self-templating construction of hollow microspheres assembled by nanosheets with exposed active planes for sodium ion storage. Nano Research, 2023, 16(4): 4987-4995. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-022-5221-6
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Received: 28 August 2022
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Published: 31 December 2022
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