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Ternary nanoarray electrode with corn-inspired hierarchical design for synergistic lithium storage

Show Author's Information Jia Yu1,2,  Xi Wang3,  Shimou Chen1( ),  Xiaoyu Liu1,  Suojiang Zhang1( )
Beijing Key Laboratory of Ionic Liquids Clean Process,Key Laboratory of Green Process and Engineering, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing,100190,China;
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
School of Sciences,Beijing Jiaotong University,Beijing,100044,China;
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ionic liquid, biomimetic material, cobalt oxide, Si, Li-ion battery, nanowire array
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Single-component anode materials can barely satisfy the growing demand for next-generation Li-ion batteries with higher capacity and cyclability. Thus developing multi-component synergistic electrodes has become a critical issue. Herein, inspired by natural corn, a ternary hierarchical self-supported array design is proposed. Based on a sequential transformation route, Si/C-modified Co3O4 nanowire arrays are constructed on 3D Ni foams to form a binder-free integrated electrode. Specifically, an ionic liquid-assisted electrodeposition strategy is employed to prepare discrete ultrafine Si nanoparticles on nanoscale array substrates, which follow the Volmer–Weber island growth mode. In this corn-mimetic system, kernel-like Si nanoparticles and a husk-like carbon coating layer function as enhancing and protecting units, respectively, to improve the capacity and stability of the cobalt oxide basic unit. Taking advantage of a synergistic effect, the ternary nanoarray anode achieves a significant performance enhancement compared to pristine Co3O4, showing a special capacity as high as ~1, 000 mAh·g−1 at 100 mA·g−1. By extending this corn-mimetic hierarchical array design to other basic, enhancing, and protecting units, new ideas for constructing synergistic nano-architectures for energy conversion and storage field are developed.


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Ternary nanoarray electrode with corn-inspired hierarchical design for synergistic lithium storage

Show Author's information Jia Yu1,2, Xi Wang3, Shimou Chen1( ), Xiaoyu Liu1, Suojiang Zhang1( )
Beijing Key Laboratory of Ionic Liquids Clean Process,Key Laboratory of Green Process and Engineering, Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing,100190,China;
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
School of Sciences,Beijing Jiaotong University,Beijing,100044,China;

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Single-component anode materials can barely satisfy the growing demand for next-generation Li-ion batteries with higher capacity and cyclability. Thus developing multi-component synergistic electrodes has become a critical issue. Herein, inspired by natural corn, a ternary hierarchical self-supported array design is proposed. Based on a sequential transformation route, Si/C-modified Co3O4 nanowire arrays are constructed on 3D Ni foams to form a binder-free integrated electrode. Specifically, an ionic liquid-assisted electrodeposition strategy is employed to prepare discrete ultrafine Si nanoparticles on nanoscale array substrates, which follow the Volmer–Weber island growth mode. In this corn-mimetic system, kernel-like Si nanoparticles and a husk-like carbon coating layer function as enhancing and protecting units, respectively, to improve the capacity and stability of the cobalt oxide basic unit. Taking advantage of a synergistic effect, the ternary nanoarray anode achieves a significant performance enhancement compared to pristine Co3O4, showing a special capacity as high as ~1, 000 mAh·g−1 at 100 mA·g−1. By extending this corn-mimetic hierarchical array design to other basic, enhancing, and protecting units, new ideas for constructing synergistic nano-architectures for energy conversion and storage field are developed.

Keywords: ionic liquid, biomimetic material, cobalt oxide, Si, Li-ion battery, nanowire array

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Received: 15 July 2016
Revised: 26 August 2016
Accepted: 31 August 2016
Published: 29 September 2016
Issue date: January 2017

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This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 21276257, 91534109 and 91434203), the "Strategic Priority Research Program" of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. XDA09010103) and National Key Projects for Fundamental Research and Development of China (No. 2016YFB0100104).

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