Rational design and synthesis of nanosheets self-assembled hierarchical flower-ball-like CuFeS2 for boosted wide temperature sodium-ion batteries
Ge Sun1,§, Hezhe Lin1,§, Ruiyuan Tian1, Zhixuan Wei1, Xiaoqi Wang2, Xu Jin2, Shiyu Yao1(), Gang Chen1, Zexiang Shen1,3, Fei Du1()
Key Laboratory of Physics and Technology for Advanced Batteries (Ministry of Education), State Key Laboratory of Superhard Materials, College of Physics, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
PetroChina, Res Inst Petr Explorat & Dev RIPED, Beijing 100083, China
Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637371, Singapore
§ Ge Sun and Hezhe Lin contributed equally to this work.
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Nanosheets self-assembled hierarchical F-CuFeS2@reduced graphene oxide (RGO) composite was successfully obtained by a concise two-step solvothermal strategy. Owing to the unique microstructure with large active reaction interfaces and shortened diffusion pathway for both Na+ ions and electrons, F-CuFeS2@RGO delivers a high reversible specific capacity of 559 mAh·g−1 at 0.1 A·g−1, excellent rate-capability with 455 mAh·g−1 at 5 A·g−1, and outstanding cyclic stability over 4800 cycles with no decay.
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Nano-structure designs with conductive networks have been demonstrated as an efficient strategy to boost sodium storage properties for transition metal sulfides. Herein, an exquisite nanosheets self-assembled hierarchical flower-ball-like CuFeS2 embedded into the reduced graphene oxide (RGO) nanosheet matrix (F-CuFeS2@RGO) is fabricated via a concise two-step solvothermal method. Such a well-designed architecture affords increased active reaction interfaces and enhanced mixed ionic/electronic conductivity. Meanwhile, the external RGO matrix can effectively alleviate the volume expansion and create a stable structure during long cycles. As a result, the composite material exhibits a high reversible capacity of 559 mAh·g−1 at 0.1 A·g−1, a superior rate capability of 455 mAh·g−1 at 5 A·g−1 and excellent cyclic stability with 96% capacity retention after 4800 cycles at 5 A·g−1, among the best in the state-of-the-art transition metal sulfide anodes. Especially, F-CuFeS2@RGO delivers outstanding low-temperature performances with a high capacity retention of 100% and 91% at −20 and −40 °C, respectively, over 200 cycles. The proposed hierarchical structure fabrication paves a new direction in the design of high-performance electrodes for all-temperature energy storage applications.
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