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Osiers-sprout-like heteroatom-doped carbon nanofibers as ultrastable anodes for lithium/sodium ion storage

Show Author's Information Hang Zhang1,  Guanhua Zhang2( ),  Zhiqin Li2,  Ke Qu3,  Huimin Shi2,  Qingfeng Zhang2,  Huigao Duan2,  Jianhui Jiang1( )
College of Chemistry and Chemical EngineeringHunan UniversityChangsha410082China
State Key Laboratory of Advanced Design and Manufacturing for Vehicle BodyNational Engineering Research Center for High Efficiency GrindingCollege of Mechanical and Vehicle EngineeringHunan UniversityChangsha410082China
Department of Materials Science and EngineeringMassachusetts Institute of Technology77 Massachusetts AvenueCambridgeMassachusetts02139USA
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sodium-ion batteries, lithium-ion batteries, carbothermic reduction, anodes, doped carbon nanofibers
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Zhang H, Zhang G, Li Z, et al. Osiers-sprout-like heteroatom-doped carbon nanofibers as ultrastable anodes for lithium/sodium ion storage. Nano Research, 2018, 11(7): 3791-3801. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-017-1953-0
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We report an in situ carbothermic reduction process to prepare osiers-sprout-like heteroatom-doped carbon nanofibers. The dosage of copper salts and a unique annealing process have a crucial effect on the development of this unique carbon structure. A systematic analysis is performed to elucidate the possible mechanism of synthesis of the carbon nanofibers decorated with carbon bubbles. As anodes for rechargeable lithium/sodium ion batteries, the heteroatom-doped nanofibers exhibit high reversible capacities and satisfactory long-term cycling stabilities. The osiers-sprout-like heteroatom-doped carbon nanofiber electrodes deliver an ultrastable cycling performance with reversible capacities of 480 and 160 mAh·g-1 for lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries after 900 cycles at a current density of 800 mA·g-1, respectively.


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Osiers-sprout-like heteroatom-doped carbon nanofibers as ultrastable anodes for lithium/sodium ion storage

Show Author's information Hang Zhang1, Guanhua Zhang2( ), Zhiqin Li2, Ke Qu3, Huimin Shi2, Qingfeng Zhang2, Huigao Duan2, Jianhui Jiang1( )
College of Chemistry and Chemical EngineeringHunan UniversityChangsha410082China
State Key Laboratory of Advanced Design and Manufacturing for Vehicle BodyNational Engineering Research Center for High Efficiency GrindingCollege of Mechanical and Vehicle EngineeringHunan UniversityChangsha410082China
Department of Materials Science and EngineeringMassachusetts Institute of Technology77 Massachusetts AvenueCambridgeMassachusetts02139USA

Abstract

We report an in situ carbothermic reduction process to prepare osiers-sprout-like heteroatom-doped carbon nanofibers. The dosage of copper salts and a unique annealing process have a crucial effect on the development of this unique carbon structure. A systematic analysis is performed to elucidate the possible mechanism of synthesis of the carbon nanofibers decorated with carbon bubbles. As anodes for rechargeable lithium/sodium ion batteries, the heteroatom-doped nanofibers exhibit high reversible capacities and satisfactory long-term cycling stabilities. The osiers-sprout-like heteroatom-doped carbon nanofiber electrodes deliver an ultrastable cycling performance with reversible capacities of 480 and 160 mAh·g-1 for lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries after 900 cycles at a current density of 800 mA·g-1, respectively.

Keywords: sodium-ion batteries, lithium-ion batteries, carbothermic reduction, anodes, doped carbon nanofibers

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Received: 14 September 2017
Revised: 13 November 2017
Accepted: 07 December 2017
Published: 02 August 2018
Issue date: July 2018

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This work is financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 21527810, 21190041, 21521063, 11274107, 11574078 and 51702095) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 531107040992).

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