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Supersaturated bridge-sulfur and vanadium co-doped MoS2 nanosheet arrays with enhanced sodium storage capability

Show Author's Information Yuru Dong1,§,  Zhengju Zhu1,§,  Yanjie Hu1( ),  Guanjie He2,  Yue Sun1,  Qilin Cheng1,  Ivan P. Parkin2,  Hao Jiang1( )
Key Laboratory for Ultrafine Materials of Ministry of Education, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Hierarchical Nanomaterials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science & Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
Christopher Ingold Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University College London, 20 Gordon Street, London WC1H0AJ, UK

§ Yuru Dong and Zhengju Zhu contributed equally to this work.

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MoS2, sodium-ion battery, high specific capacity, cycle life, bridge-sulfur
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AnodesIon batteriesLayered semiconductorsMetal ionsMolybdenum compoundsNanosheetsSodiumStorage (materials)SulfurSulfur compoundsVanadium
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Dong Y, Zhu Z, Hu Y, et al. Supersaturated bridge-sulfur and vanadium co-doped MoS2 nanosheet arrays with enhanced sodium storage capability. Nano Research, 2021, 14(1): 74-80. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-020-3044-x
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The low specific capacity and sluggish electrochemical reaction kinetics greatly block the development of sodium-ion batteries (SIBs). New high-performance electrode materials will enhance development and are urgently required for SIBs. Herein, we report the preparation of supersaturated bridge-sulfur and vanadium co-doped MoS2 nanosheet arrays on carbon cloth (denoted as V-MoS2+x/CC). The bridge-sulfur in MoS2 has been created as a new active site for greater Na+ storage. The vanadium doping increases the density of carriers and facilitates accelerated electron transfer. The synergistic dual-doping effects endow the V-MoS2+x/CC anodes with high sodium storage performance. The optimized V-MoS2.49/CC gives superhigh capacities of 370 and 214 mAh·g-1 at 0.1 and 10 A·g-1 within 0.4-3.0 V, respectively. After cycling 3,000 times at 2 A·g-1, almost 83% of the reversible capacity is maintained. The findings indicate that the electrochemical performances of metal sulfides can be further improved by edge-engineering and lattice-doping co-modification concept.


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Supersaturated bridge-sulfur and vanadium co-doped MoS2 nanosheet arrays with enhanced sodium storage capability

Show Author's information Yuru Dong1,§, Zhengju Zhu1,§, Yanjie Hu1( ), Guanjie He2, Yue Sun1, Qilin Cheng1, Ivan P. Parkin2, Hao Jiang1( )
Key Laboratory for Ultrafine Materials of Ministry of Education, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Hierarchical Nanomaterials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, East China University of Science & Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
Christopher Ingold Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University College London, 20 Gordon Street, London WC1H0AJ, UK

§ Yuru Dong and Zhengju Zhu contributed equally to this work.

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The low specific capacity and sluggish electrochemical reaction kinetics greatly block the development of sodium-ion batteries (SIBs). New high-performance electrode materials will enhance development and are urgently required for SIBs. Herein, we report the preparation of supersaturated bridge-sulfur and vanadium co-doped MoS2 nanosheet arrays on carbon cloth (denoted as V-MoS2+x/CC). The bridge-sulfur in MoS2 has been created as a new active site for greater Na+ storage. The vanadium doping increases the density of carriers and facilitates accelerated electron transfer. The synergistic dual-doping effects endow the V-MoS2+x/CC anodes with high sodium storage performance. The optimized V-MoS2.49/CC gives superhigh capacities of 370 and 214 mAh·g-1 at 0.1 and 10 A·g-1 within 0.4-3.0 V, respectively. After cycling 3,000 times at 2 A·g-1, almost 83% of the reversible capacity is maintained. The findings indicate that the electrochemical performances of metal sulfides can be further improved by edge-engineering and lattice-doping co-modification concept.

Keywords: MoS2, sodium-ion battery, high specific capacity, cycle life, bridge-sulfur

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Received: 23 June 2020
Revised: 04 August 2020
Accepted: 07 August 2020
Published: 05 January 2021
Issue date: January 2021

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The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51672082, 21975074, and 91534202), the Basic Research Program of Shanghai (No. 17JC1402300), the Shanghai Scientific and Technological Innovation Project (No. 18JC1410500), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 222201718002).

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