Stable wide-temperature and low volume expansion Al batteries: Integrating few-layer graphene with multifunctional cobalt boride nanocluster as positive electrode

Li-Li Chen; Na Li; Huifeng Shi; Yuefei Zhang; Wei-Li Song; Shuqiang Jiao; Haosen Chen; Daining Fang

doi:10.1007/s12274-020-2624-0

Nano Research 2020, 13(2): 419-429 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-020-2624-0

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Stable wide-temperature and low volume expansion Al batteries: Integrating few-layer graphene with multifunctional cobalt boride nanocluster as positive electrode

Show Author's Information Hide Author's Information Li-Li Chen^{¹^,²^,³^,^§}, Na Li^{¹^,²^,³^,^§}, Huifeng Shi^⁵, Yuefei Zhang^⁵, Wei-Li Song^{¹^,²}(

), Shuqiang Jiao^{¹^,⁴}(

), Haosen Chen^{¹^,²}, Daining Fang^{¹^,²^,⁶}

1Institute of Advanced Structure Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China

2Beijing Key Laboratory of Lightweight Multi-functional Composite Materials and Structures, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China

3School of Materials Science & Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China

4State Key Laboratory of Advanced Metallurgy, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China

5Institute of Microstructure and Property of Advanced Materials, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China

6State Key Laboratory for Turbulence and Complex Systems, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

^§ Li-Li Chen and Na Li contributed equally to this work.

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ionic liquid, positive electrode, Al batteries, cobalt boride nanoclusters, broad temperature

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Aluminum Borides Cobalt Electric batteries Energy storage Graphene Nanoclusters Scanning electron microscopy

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To achieve stable positive electrode for promoting the overall electrochemical performance of Al batteries (ABs), here novel cobalt boride (CoB) nanoclusters are synthesized to construct composite electrodes with few-layer graphene (FLG). Due to the presence of amorphous channels in the employed CoB nanoclusters, the ABs with FLG/CoB composite positive electrodes exhibit high rate capability and both mechanical and electrochemical stability in the ABs. With assistance of in situ scanning electron microscopy (SEM), the observation results suggest that the positive electrode of CoB nanoclusters holds almost ignorable volume variation upon electrochemical processes, which substantially alleviates the massive electrode expansion induced by the anion intercalation in the composite positive electrode. Interestingly, the composite positive electrodes provide stable reversible energy storage capability within a broadened temperature range (-30-60 °C), promising a novel strategy to design advanced ABs positive electrodes with enhanced overall energy storage performance.

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Stable wide-temperature and low volume expansion Al batteries: Integrating few-layer graphene with multifunctional cobalt boride nanocluster as positive electrode

Show Author's information Hide Author's Information Li-Li Chen^{¹^,²^,³^,^§}, Na Li^{¹^,²^,³^,^§}, Huifeng Shi^⁵, Yuefei Zhang^⁵, Wei-Li Song^{¹^,²}(

), Shuqiang Jiao^{¹^,⁴}(

), Haosen Chen^{¹^,²}, Daining Fang^{¹^,²^,⁶}

1Institute of Advanced Structure Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China

2Beijing Key Laboratory of Lightweight Multi-functional Composite Materials and Structures, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China

3School of Materials Science & Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China

4State Key Laboratory of Advanced Metallurgy, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China

5Institute of Microstructure and Property of Advanced Materials, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China

6State Key Laboratory for Turbulence and Complex Systems, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

^§ Li-Li Chen and Na Li contributed equally to this work.

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Keywords: ionic liquid, positive electrode, Al batteries, cobalt boride nanoclusters, broad temperature

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Received: 09 September 2019

Revised: 16 November 2019

Accepted: 26 December 2019

Published: 21 January 2020

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Financial support from the National Key R&D Program of China (No. 2018YFB0104400), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51725401, 51874019 and 11672341) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. FRFTP-17-002C2) is gratefully acknowledged.