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Self-templating construction of hollow microspheres assembled by nanosheets with exposed active planes for sodium ion storage

Show Author's Information Jianing Liang§,  Zhizhan Li§,  Jinguo Cheng,  Jinlei Qin,  Hongfang Liu,  Deli Wang( )
Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage (Huazhong University of Science and Technology), Ministry of Education, Hubei Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry and Service Failure, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China

§ Jianing Liang and Zhizhan Li contributed equally to this work.

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sodium-ion batteries, hollow microspheres, P2-type cathode, self-template, nanosheets structure
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P2-type layered metal oxides have been considered as one of the promising cathode candidates for high-performance Na-ion batteries (SIBs). However, it is still challenging to balance the contradiction of high energy density and long cycle life due to the structural degradation and sluggish ion diffusion dynamics. Here, the hierarchical P2-Na2/3Ni1/3Mn2/3O2 hollow microspheres assembled by nanosheets are constructed via a self-template approach. The obtained nanosheets with more exposed electrochemical active planes serving as desodiation/sodiation reactors can provide substantial Na+ channels, shorten the diffusion pathways, and accommodate the volume changes during charge/discharge process. Benefiting from the facile Na+ diffusion paths and optimal architecture modulation, the cathode delivers a high initial Coulombic efficiency of 96.0% with a high energy density of 299.7 Wh·kg−1. The highly reversible structural evolutions processes are verified by galvanostatic intermittent titration technique (GITT) and operando electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) measurement, which would significantly improve the cycle stability (83.3% capacity retention at 1.0 C over 500 loops). Furthermore, the full cell assembled by hard carbon presents a high reversible capacity of 71 mAh·g−1 at 0.2 C and promising capacity retention (91.5% after 50 cycles). The designing concept of morphological configuration in this work paves an accessible route for building high-performance electrode materials.


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Self-templating construction of hollow microspheres assembled by nanosheets with exposed active planes for sodium ion storage

Show Author's information Jianing Liang§, Zhizhan Li§, Jinguo Cheng, Jinlei Qin, Hongfang Liu, Deli Wang( )
Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry for Energy Conversion and Storage (Huazhong University of Science and Technology), Ministry of Education, Hubei Key Laboratory of Material Chemistry and Service Failure, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China

§ Jianing Liang and Zhizhan Li contributed equally to this work.

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P2-type layered metal oxides have been considered as one of the promising cathode candidates for high-performance Na-ion batteries (SIBs). However, it is still challenging to balance the contradiction of high energy density and long cycle life due to the structural degradation and sluggish ion diffusion dynamics. Here, the hierarchical P2-Na2/3Ni1/3Mn2/3O2 hollow microspheres assembled by nanosheets are constructed via a self-template approach. The obtained nanosheets with more exposed electrochemical active planes serving as desodiation/sodiation reactors can provide substantial Na+ channels, shorten the diffusion pathways, and accommodate the volume changes during charge/discharge process. Benefiting from the facile Na+ diffusion paths and optimal architecture modulation, the cathode delivers a high initial Coulombic efficiency of 96.0% with a high energy density of 299.7 Wh·kg−1. The highly reversible structural evolutions processes are verified by galvanostatic intermittent titration technique (GITT) and operando electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) measurement, which would significantly improve the cycle stability (83.3% capacity retention at 1.0 C over 500 loops). Furthermore, the full cell assembled by hard carbon presents a high reversible capacity of 71 mAh·g−1 at 0.2 C and promising capacity retention (91.5% after 50 cycles). The designing concept of morphological configuration in this work paves an accessible route for building high-performance electrode materials.

Keywords: sodium-ion batteries, hollow microspheres, P2-type cathode, self-template, nanosheets structure

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Received: 28 August 2022
Revised: 17 October 2022
Accepted: 17 October 2022
Published: 31 December 2022
Issue date: April 2023

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 91963109), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 2172019kfyRCPY100). The authors thank the Analytical and Testing Center of Huazhong University of Science and Technology for allowing use its facilities.

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