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Regulation of pseudographitic carbon domain to boost sodium energy storage

Zhidong Hou, Mingwei Jiang, Da Lei, Xiang Zhang, Yuyang Gao, Jian-Gan Wang( )
State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing, Center for Nano Energy Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University and Shaanxi Joint Lab of Graphene (NPU), Xi’an 710072, China
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A facile molten-salt-mediated strategy is adopted for realizing appropriate interlayer spacing and extended pseudographitic domain of hard carbon. Benefiting from the microstructure optimization, hard carbon anode delivers remarkable sodium storage capacity and kinetics.

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Hard carbon anode has shown extraordinary potentials for sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) owing to the cost-effectiveness and advantaged microstructure. Nevertheless, the widespread application of hard carbon is still hindered by the insufficient sodium storage capacity and depressed rate property, which are mainly induced by the undesirable pseudographitic structure. Herein, we develop a molten-salt-mediated strategy to regulate the pseudographitic structure of hard carbon with suitable interlayer spacing and enlarged pseudographitic domain, which is conducive to the intercalation capacity and diffusion kinetics of sodium ions. Impressively, the optimized hard carbon anode delivers a high reversible capacity of 320 mAh·g−1, along with superior rate property (138 mAh·g−1 at 2 A·g−1) and stable cyclability over 1800 cycles. Moreover, the in situ Raman spectroscopic study and full-cell assembly further investigate the sodium storage mechanism and practical implement of obtained hard carbon. This work pioneers a low-cost and effective route to regulate the pseudographitic structure of hard carbon materials for advanced SIBs.

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pseudographitic structuremolten salthard carbonanodesodium-ion batteries

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Nano Research
Volume 17 Issue 6,
June 2024
Pages 5188-5196
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-024-6448-1
Cite this article:
Hou Z, Jiang M, Lei D, et al. Regulation of pseudographitic carbon domain to boost sodium energy storage. Nano Research, 2024, 17(6): 5188-5196. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-024-6448-1
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Received: 26 October 2023
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