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Flash-assisted doping graphene for ultrafast potassium transport

Show Author's Information Yongzhi Zhang1,2,  Xianjue Chen2,  Wanglai Cen1,  Wenhao Ren2,  Haocheng Guo2,  Sicheng Wu2,  Yang Xiao2,  Sheng Chen2,  Yong Guo3,  Dan Xiao1( ),  Chuan Zhao2( )
Institute of New Energy and Low-Carbon Technology (INELT), Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
School of Chemistry, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia
College of Chemistry, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China
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Zhang Y, Chen X, Cen W, et al. Flash-assisted doping graphene for ultrafast potassium transport. Nano Research, 2022, 15(5): 4083-4090. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-021-4023-6
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Graphene has been widely used for electrical energy storage and its performances could be further improved by heteroatom doping. How to prepare doped graphene efficiently and economically remains a significant challenge. Here, we propose a flash-assisted doping method to produce nitrogen- and sulfur-doped graphene (N-rGO and S-rGO). Using this method, graphene oxide (GO) is reduced to few-layer graphene (rGO) in seconds without the use of reductants, accompanied with a high doping efficiency. Particularly, the as-synthesized N-rGO with a high N content of 12.75 at.% used as potassium-ion battery (KIB) anode exhibits ultrafast K+-transport kinetics and superior K+-storage capability. Quantitative kinetics analysis and theoretical simulation are used to reveal the mechanism of transportation and storage of K+ in N-rGO.


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Flash-assisted doping graphene for ultrafast potassium transport

Show Author's information Yongzhi Zhang1,2, Xianjue Chen2, Wanglai Cen1, Wenhao Ren2, Haocheng Guo2, Sicheng Wu2, Yang Xiao2, Sheng Chen2, Yong Guo3, Dan Xiao1( ), Chuan Zhao2( )
Institute of New Energy and Low-Carbon Technology (INELT), Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
School of Chemistry, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia
College of Chemistry, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China

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Graphene has been widely used for electrical energy storage and its performances could be further improved by heteroatom doping. How to prepare doped graphene efficiently and economically remains a significant challenge. Here, we propose a flash-assisted doping method to produce nitrogen- and sulfur-doped graphene (N-rGO and S-rGO). Using this method, graphene oxide (GO) is reduced to few-layer graphene (rGO) in seconds without the use of reductants, accompanied with a high doping efficiency. Particularly, the as-synthesized N-rGO with a high N content of 12.75 at.% used as potassium-ion battery (KIB) anode exhibits ultrafast K+-transport kinetics and superior K+-storage capability. Quantitative kinetics analysis and theoretical simulation are used to reveal the mechanism of transportation and storage of K+ in N-rGO.

Keywords: graphene, doping, anodes, potassium-ion batteries, flash

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Received: 05 September 2021
Revised: 04 November 2021
Accepted: 24 November 2021
Published: 14 January 2022
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This work was supported by the Excellent Young Scholar Research Foundation of Sichuan University (No. 2017SCU04A07) and Sichuan Science and Technology Program (No. 2019YFG0218). The authors thank Dr. Yibing Li from University of New South Wales for their help with analysis of research results and Prof. Li Wu from Analytical & Testing Centre Sichuan University for her help with Raman test. C. Z. thanks Australian Research Council for the award of Future Fellowship (No. FT170100224).

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