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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 6, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9689
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- Australian Research Council (ARC) [LP120200432, DP140104062]
- Commonwealth of Australia through the Automotive Australia Cooperative Research Centre (Auto CRC)
- National Natural Science Foundation (NSF) of China [21210004]
- Shanghai Sci. & Tech. Committee [14JC1400700]
- ARC [LE0882813, LE0237478]
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Sodium-metal sulfide battery holds great promise for sustainable and cost-effective applications. Nevertheless, achieving high capacity and cycling stability remains a great challenge. Here, uniform yolk-shell iron sulfide-carbon nanospheres have been synthesized as cathode materials for the emerging sodium sulfide battery to achieve remarkable capacity of similar to 545 mA h g(-1) over 100 cycles at 0.2 C (100mAg(-1)), delivering ultrahigh energy density of similar to 438 Wh kg(-1). The proven conversion reaction between sodium and iron sulfide results in high capacity but severe volume changes. Nanostructural design, including of nanosized iron sulfide yolks (similar to 170 nm) with porous carbon shells (similar to 30 nm) and extra void space (similar to 20 nm) in between, has been used to achieve excellent cycling performance without sacrificing capacity. This sustainable sodium-iron sulfide battery is a promising candidate for stationary energy storage. Furthermore, this spatially confined sulfuration strategy offers a general method for other yolk-shell metal sulfide-carbon composites.
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