Low-Cost and High-Performance Hard Carbon Anode Materials for Sodium-Ion Batteries.

ABSTRACT: As an anode material for sodium-ion batteries (SIBs), hard carbon (HC) presents high specific capacity and favorable cycling performance. However, high cost and low initial Coulombic efficiency (ICE) of HC seriously limit its future commercialization for SIBs. A typical biowaste, mangosteen shell was selected as a precursor to prepare low-cost and high-performance HC via a facile one-step carbonization method, and the influence of different heat treatments on the morphologies, microstructures, and electrochemical performances was investigated systematically. The microstructure evolution studied using X-ray diffraction, Raman, Brunauer-Emmett-Teller, and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy, along with electrochemical measurements, reveals the optimal carbonization condition of

SUBMITTER: Wang K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6641066 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature