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Hierarchical carbon nanosheet confined defective MoSx cathode towards long-cycling zinc-ion-battery

Show Author's Information Xiaoqi Wang1,3,  Shimeng Zhang2,  Rui Yang3,  Shengchi Bai3,  Jianbo Li2,  Yu Wu2,  Bowen Jin2( ),  Xu Jin3,  Mingfei Shao2,  Bo Wang1( )
School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
Research Center of New Energy, PetroChina Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration & Development, Beijing 100083, China
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hierarchical structure, aqueous zinc-ion batteries, porous carbon nanosheets, long-cycling, MoSx cathode
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Wang X, Zhang S, Yang R, et al. Hierarchical carbon nanosheet confined defective MoSx cathode towards long-cycling zinc-ion-battery. Nano Research, 2023, 16(7): 9364-9370. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-023-5572-7
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Aqueous zinc-ion batteries (ZIBs) have attracted increasing attention due to their low cost and high safety. MoS2 is a promising cathode material for aqueous ZIBs due to its favorable Zn2+ accommodation ability. However, the structural strain and large volume changes during intercalation/deintercalation lead to exfoliation of active materials from substrate and cause irreversible capacity fading. In this work, a highly stable cathode was developed by designing a hierarchical carbon nanosheet-confined defective MoSx material (CNS@MoSx). This cathode material exhibits an excellent cycling stability with high capacity retention of 88.3% and ~ 100% Coulombic efficiency after 400 cycles at 1.2 A·g−1, much superior compared to bare MoS2. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations combined with experiments illustrate that the promising electrochemical properties of CNS@MoSx are due to the unique porous conductive structure of CNS with abundant active sites to anchor MoSx via strong chemical bonding, enabling MoSx to be firmly confined on the substrate. Moreover, this unique hierarchical complex structure ensures the fast migration of Zn2+ within MoSx interlayer.


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Hierarchical carbon nanosheet confined defective MoSx cathode towards long-cycling zinc-ion-battery

Show Author's information Xiaoqi Wang1,3, Shimeng Zhang2, Rui Yang3, Shengchi Bai3, Jianbo Li2, Yu Wu2, Bowen Jin2( ), Xu Jin3, Mingfei Shao2, Bo Wang1( )
School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
Research Center of New Energy, PetroChina Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration & Development, Beijing 100083, China

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Aqueous zinc-ion batteries (ZIBs) have attracted increasing attention due to their low cost and high safety. MoS2 is a promising cathode material for aqueous ZIBs due to its favorable Zn2+ accommodation ability. However, the structural strain and large volume changes during intercalation/deintercalation lead to exfoliation of active materials from substrate and cause irreversible capacity fading. In this work, a highly stable cathode was developed by designing a hierarchical carbon nanosheet-confined defective MoSx material (CNS@MoSx). This cathode material exhibits an excellent cycling stability with high capacity retention of 88.3% and ~ 100% Coulombic efficiency after 400 cycles at 1.2 A·g−1, much superior compared to bare MoS2. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations combined with experiments illustrate that the promising electrochemical properties of CNS@MoSx are due to the unique porous conductive structure of CNS with abundant active sites to anchor MoSx via strong chemical bonding, enabling MoSx to be firmly confined on the substrate. Moreover, this unique hierarchical complex structure ensures the fast migration of Zn2+ within MoSx interlayer.

Keywords: hierarchical structure, aqueous zinc-ion batteries, porous carbon nanosheets, long-cycling, MoSx cathode

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Received: 25 April 2022
Revised: 09 February 2023
Accepted: 13 February 2023
Published: 02 April 2023
Issue date: July 2023

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The authors acknowledge the financial support by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 21922501, 21625102, and 21471018), the China National Petroleum Corporation Research Fund Program, and the Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development Research Fund Program.

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