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Recycle spent graphite to defect-engineered, high-power graphite anode

Jiawei Luo1,§, Jingchao Zhang1,§, Zhaoxin Guo1, Zhedong Liu1, Shuming Dou1, Wei-Di Liu2, Yanan Chen1 ( ), Wenbin Hu1( )
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia

§ Jiawei Luo and Jingchao Zhang contributed equally to this work.

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Recycle spent graphite to defect-engineered, high-power graphite anode This work reports a strategy to transfer spent graphite into defect-rich recycled graphite with superior rate performance by high-temperature shock (HTS) within ~ 60 s. This strategy will bring novel guidance for researchers in the development of high-power batteries.

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Graphite is a dominant anode material for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) due to its outstanding electrochemical performance. However, slow lithium ion (Li+) kinetics of graphite anode restricts its further application. Herein, we report that high-temperature shock (HTS) can drive spent graphite (SG) into defect-rich recycled graphite (DRG) which is ideal for high-rate anode. The DRG exhibits the charging specific capacity of 323 mAh/g at a high current density of 2 C, which outperforms commercial graphite (CG, 120 mAh/g). The eminent electrochemical performance of DRG can be attributed to the recovery of layered structure and partial remaining defects of SG during ultrafast heating and cooling process, which can effectively reduce total strain energy, accelerate the phase transition in thermodynamics and improve the Li+ diffusion. This study provides a facile strategy to guide the re-graphitization of SG and design high performance battery electrode materials by defect engineering from the atomic level.

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ultrafastrecyclingdefect-richgraphite anodehigh-temperature shock

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Nano Research
Volume 16 Issue 4,
April 2023
Pages 4240-4245
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-022-5244-z
Cite this article:
Luo J, Zhang J, Guo Z, et al. Recycle spent graphite to defect-engineered, high-power graphite anode. Nano Research, 2023, 16(4): 4240-4245. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-022-5244-z
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Received: 10 September 2022
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Accepted: 25 October 2022
Published: 13 December 2022
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