Journal
NANO-MICRO LETTERS
Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1007/s40820-020-00481-7
Keywords
Potassium-ion battery; Mesopores engineering; Storage mechanism; Initial Coulombic efficiency
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51832004, 21805219, 51521001]
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2016YFA0202603]
- Programme of Introducing Talents of Discipline to Universities [B17034]
- Yellow Crane Talent (Science & Technology) Program of Wuhan City, Foshan Xianhu Laboratory of the Advanced Energy Science and Technology Guangdong Laboratory [XHT2020-003]
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Amorphous carbon shows great potential as an anode material for high-performance potassium-ion batteries; however, its abundant defects or micropores generally capture K ions, thus resulting in high irreversible capacity with low initial Coulombic efficiency (ICE) and limited practical application. Herein, pore engineering via a facile self-etching strategy is applied to achieve mesoporous carbon (meso-C) nanowires with interconnected framework. Abundant and evenly distributed mesopores could provide short K+ pathways for its rapid diffusion. Compared to microporous carbon with highly disordered structure, the meso-C with Zn-catalyzed short-range ordered structure enables more K+ to reversibly intercalate into the graphitic layers. Consequently, the meso-C shows an increased capacity by similar to 100 mAh g(-1) at 0.1 A g(-1), and the capacity retention is 70.7% after 1000 cycles at 1 A g(-1). Multiple in/ex situ characterizations reveal the reversible structural changes during the charging/discharging process. Particularly, benefiting from the mesoporous structure with reduced specific surface area by 31.5 times and less defects, the meso-C generates less irreversible capacity with high ICE up to 76.7%, one of the best reported values so far. This work provides a new perspective that mesopores engineering can effectively accelerate K+ diffusion and enhance K+ adsorption/intercalation storage.
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