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Precise synthesis of N-doped graphitic carbon via chemical vapor deposition to unravel the dopant functions on potassium storage toward practical K-ion batteries

Show Author's Information Yu Zhao1,§,  Zhongti Sun1,§,  Yuyang Yi1,  Chen Lu1,  Menglei Wang1,  Zhou Xia1,  Xueyu Lian1,  Zhongfan Liu1,2( ),  Jingyu Sun1( )
College of Energy, Soochow Institute for Energy and Materials InnovationS (SIEMIS), Key Laboratory of Advanced Carbon Materials and Wearable Energy Technologies of Jiangsu Province, Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, China
Center for Nanochemistry (CNC), Beijing Science and Engineering Center for Nanocarbons, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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adsorption, nitrogen doping, carbon anode, potassium storage, voltage
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Nitrogen doped carbon is a burgeoning anode candidate for potassium-ion battery (PIBs) owing to its outstanding attributes. It is imperative to grasp further insight into specific effects of different nitrogen dopants in carbon anode toward advanced K-ion storage. However, the prevailing fabrication method is plagued by the fact that considerable variations in the total N-doping concentration occur in the course of regulating the type of nitrogen dopants, incapable of distinguishing the certain roles of them under similar conditions. Herein, throughout the precise preparation of high edge-N doped carbon (HENC) and high graphitic-N doped carbon (HGNC) harnessing basically identical N-doping levels (5.78 at.% for HENC; 5.07 at.% for HGNC) via chemical vapor deposition route, the effects of edge-N and graphitic-N in the carbon anode on K-ion storage are revisited, offering guidance into the design of low-cost and high-performance PIB systems.


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Precise synthesis of N-doped graphitic carbon via chemical vapor deposition to unravel the dopant functions on potassium storage toward practical K-ion batteries

Show Author's information Yu Zhao1,§, Zhongti Sun1,§, Yuyang Yi1, Chen Lu1, Menglei Wang1, Zhou Xia1, Xueyu Lian1, Zhongfan Liu1,2( ), Jingyu Sun1( )
College of Energy, Soochow Institute for Energy and Materials InnovationS (SIEMIS), Key Laboratory of Advanced Carbon Materials and Wearable Energy Technologies of Jiangsu Province, Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, China
Center for Nanochemistry (CNC), Beijing Science and Engineering Center for Nanocarbons, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

Abstract

Nitrogen doped carbon is a burgeoning anode candidate for potassium-ion battery (PIBs) owing to its outstanding attributes. It is imperative to grasp further insight into specific effects of different nitrogen dopants in carbon anode toward advanced K-ion storage. However, the prevailing fabrication method is plagued by the fact that considerable variations in the total N-doping concentration occur in the course of regulating the type of nitrogen dopants, incapable of distinguishing the certain roles of them under similar conditions. Herein, throughout the precise preparation of high edge-N doped carbon (HENC) and high graphitic-N doped carbon (HGNC) harnessing basically identical N-doping levels (5.78 at.% for HENC; 5.07 at.% for HGNC) via chemical vapor deposition route, the effects of edge-N and graphitic-N in the carbon anode on K-ion storage are revisited, offering guidance into the design of low-cost and high-performance PIB systems.

Keywords: adsorption, nitrogen doping, carbon anode, potassium storage, voltage

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Received: 25 September 2020
Accepted: 18 October 2020
Published: 23 November 2020
Issue date: May 2021

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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 51702225), Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (No. BK20170336) and China Post-doctoral Foundation (No. 7131705619). The authors also acknowledge the support from Suzhou Key Laboratory for Advanced Carbon Materials and Wearable Energy Technologies, Suzhou, China.

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