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Construction of hollow mesoporous ZnMn2O4/C microspheres with carbon nanotubes embedded in shells for high-performance aqueous zinc ions batteries

Show Author's Information Feiran Chen1,  Qinru Wang1,  Xiaofeng Yang1,  Chao Wang1,  Hu Zang1,  Yingwen Tang2,  Tao Li3,  Baoyou Geng1,4( )
College of Chemistry and Materials Science, the Key Laboratory of Electrochemical Clean Energy of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, Anhui Provincial Engineering Laboratory for New-Energy Vehicle Battery Energy-Storage Materials, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241002, China
College of Physics and Information Engineering, Minnan Normal University, Zhangzhou 363000, China
Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 100029, China
Institute of Energy, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center, Hefei 230031, China
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carbon nanotubes, ZnMn2O4, mesoporous hollow microspheres, zinc-ion battery
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Chen F, Wang Q, Yang X, et al. Construction of hollow mesoporous ZnMn2O4/C microspheres with carbon nanotubes embedded in shells for high-performance aqueous zinc ions batteries. Nano Research, 2023, 16(1): 1726-1732. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-022-4772-x
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Recently, rechargeable zinc-ion batteries have been considered as the future development direction of large-scale energy storage due to their low price, safety, environmental friendliness, and excellent electrochemical performance. However, high-capacity, long-cycle stable cathode materials that can meet the demand are still to be developed. Herein, the hollow mesoporous ZnMn2O4/C microsphere cathode material with carbon nanotubes embedded in the shell was prepared by spray pyrolysis for the first time. Its capacity remained at 209.71 mAh·g−1 after 150 cycles at a rate of 0.5 A·g−1, and still maintained a specific capacity of 100.06 mAh·g−1 at a rate of 1 A·g−1 after 1,000 cycles. The outstanding performance is attributed to the hollow structure that can effectively buffer large volume changes caused by ion intercalation and deintercalation, excellent porosity, cationic defects, and high electrical conductivity of carbon nanotubes and its strong adsorption to ZnMn2O4 nanoparticles.


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Construction of hollow mesoporous ZnMn2O4/C microspheres with carbon nanotubes embedded in shells for high-performance aqueous zinc ions batteries

Show Author's information Feiran Chen1, Qinru Wang1, Xiaofeng Yang1, Chao Wang1, Hu Zang1, Yingwen Tang2, Tao Li3, Baoyou Geng1,4( )
College of Chemistry and Materials Science, the Key Laboratory of Electrochemical Clean Energy of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, Anhui Provincial Engineering Laboratory for New-Energy Vehicle Battery Energy-Storage Materials, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241002, China
College of Physics and Information Engineering, Minnan Normal University, Zhangzhou 363000, China
Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 100029, China
Institute of Energy, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center, Hefei 230031, China

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Recently, rechargeable zinc-ion batteries have been considered as the future development direction of large-scale energy storage due to their low price, safety, environmental friendliness, and excellent electrochemical performance. However, high-capacity, long-cycle stable cathode materials that can meet the demand are still to be developed. Herein, the hollow mesoporous ZnMn2O4/C microsphere cathode material with carbon nanotubes embedded in the shell was prepared by spray pyrolysis for the first time. Its capacity remained at 209.71 mAh·g−1 after 150 cycles at a rate of 0.5 A·g−1, and still maintained a specific capacity of 100.06 mAh·g−1 at a rate of 1 A·g−1 after 1,000 cycles. The outstanding performance is attributed to the hollow structure that can effectively buffer large volume changes caused by ion intercalation and deintercalation, excellent porosity, cationic defects, and high electrical conductivity of carbon nanotubes and its strong adsorption to ZnMn2O4 nanoparticles.

Keywords: carbon nanotubes, ZnMn2O4, mesoporous hollow microspheres, zinc-ion battery

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Received: 29 June 2022
Revised: 10 July 2022
Accepted: 13 July 2022
Published: 08 August 2022
Issue date: January 2023

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 21871005 and 22171005), the University Synergy Innovation Program of Anhui Province (Nos. GXXT-2020-005, GXXT-2021-012, and GXXT-2021-013), and Open project of Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics (No. IIMOKFJJ-19-09).

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