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Construction and electrochemical mechanism investigation of hierarchical core-shell like composite as high performance anode for potassium ion batteries

Show Author's Information Nadeem Hussain1,3,  Suyuan Zeng2,  Zhenyu Feng1,  Yanjun Zhai2,  Chunsheng Wang1,  Mingwen Zhao4( ),  Yitai Qian1,  Liqiang Xu1,2( )
Key Laboratory of Colloid & Interface Chemistry,Ministry of Education and School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University,Jinan,250100,China;
Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory/Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Energy Storage & Novel Cell Technology,Liaocheng University,Liaocheng,252059,China;
International Collaborative Laboratory of 2D Materials for Optoelectronics Science and Technology (Ministry of Education),Institute of Microscale Optoelectronics, Shenzhen University,Shenzhen,518060,China;
School of Physics,Shandong University,Jinan,250100,China;
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Potassium-ion batteries (PIBs) are promising candidates for next-generation energy storage devices due to the earth abundance of potassium, low cost, and stable redox potentials. However, the lack of promising high-performance electrode materials for the intercalation/deintercalation of large potassium ions is a major challenge up to date. Herein, we report a novel uniform nickel selenide nanoparticles encapsulated in nitrogen-doped carbon (defined as pNiSe@NCq) as an anode for PIBs, which exhibits superior rate performance and cyclic stability. Benefiting from the unique hierarchical core-shell like nanostructure, the intrinsic properties of metal-selenium bonds, synergetic effect of different components, and a remarkable pseudocapacitance effect, the anode exhibits a very high reversible capacity of 438 mAdhdg-1 at 50 mAdg-1, an excellent rate capability, and remarkable cycling performance over 2, 000 cycles. The electrochemical mechanism were investigated by the in-situ X-ray diffraction, ex-situ high-resolution transmission electron microscopy, selected area electron diffraction, and first principle calculations. In addition, NiSe@NC anode also shows high reversible capacity of 512 mAdhdg-1 at 100 mAdg-1 with 84% initial Coulombic efficiency, remarkable rate performance, and excellent cycling life for sodium ion batteries. We believe the proposed simple approach will pave a new way to synthesize suitable anode materials for secondary ion batteries.


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Construction and electrochemical mechanism investigation of hierarchical core-shell like composite as high performance anode for potassium ion batteries

Show Author's information Nadeem Hussain1,3, Suyuan Zeng2, Zhenyu Feng1, Yanjun Zhai2, Chunsheng Wang1, Mingwen Zhao4( ), Yitai Qian1, Liqiang Xu1,2( )
Key Laboratory of Colloid & Interface Chemistry,Ministry of Education and School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University,Jinan,250100,China;
Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory/Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Energy Storage & Novel Cell Technology,Liaocheng University,Liaocheng,252059,China;
International Collaborative Laboratory of 2D Materials for Optoelectronics Science and Technology (Ministry of Education),Institute of Microscale Optoelectronics, Shenzhen University,Shenzhen,518060,China;
School of Physics,Shandong University,Jinan,250100,China;

Abstract

Potassium-ion batteries (PIBs) are promising candidates for next-generation energy storage devices due to the earth abundance of potassium, low cost, and stable redox potentials. However, the lack of promising high-performance electrode materials for the intercalation/deintercalation of large potassium ions is a major challenge up to date. Herein, we report a novel uniform nickel selenide nanoparticles encapsulated in nitrogen-doped carbon (defined as pNiSe@NCq) as an anode for PIBs, which exhibits superior rate performance and cyclic stability. Benefiting from the unique hierarchical core-shell like nanostructure, the intrinsic properties of metal-selenium bonds, synergetic effect of different components, and a remarkable pseudocapacitance effect, the anode exhibits a very high reversible capacity of 438 mAdhdg-1 at 50 mAdg-1, an excellent rate capability, and remarkable cycling performance over 2, 000 cycles. The electrochemical mechanism were investigated by the in-situ X-ray diffraction, ex-situ high-resolution transmission electron microscopy, selected area electron diffraction, and first principle calculations. In addition, NiSe@NC anode also shows high reversible capacity of 512 mAdhdg-1 at 100 mAdg-1 with 84% initial Coulombic efficiency, remarkable rate performance, and excellent cycling life for sodium ion batteries. We believe the proposed simple approach will pave a new way to synthesize suitable anode materials for secondary ion batteries.

Keywords: core-shell, in-situ X-ray diffraction (XRD), pseudocapacitance, potassium-ion batteries, first principle calculations

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Received: 15 March 2021
Revised: 04 June 2021
Accepted: 06 June 2021
Published: 08 July 2021
Issue date: October 2021

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This work was supported by Academy of Sciences large apparatus United Fund (No. U1832187), the National Nature Science Foundation of China (No. 22071135), and the Nature Science Foundation of Shandong Province (No. ZR2019MEM030).

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