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ENERGY & FUELS
Volume 37, Issue 21, Pages 16979-16987Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.energyfuels.3c03094
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This study presents a novel composite material consisting of carbon derived from longan pulp and ferric oxide nanoparticles for lithium-ion batteries. The composite exhibits excellent performance as an electrode, with high initial discharge capacity and good cycling stability. The composite's unique structure increases the contact between the electrolyte and active materials, while also compensating for the material's poor electrical conductivity and volume expansion during cycling.
Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) are the most preferred alternatives to fossil fuels as energy providers, but further improvement of the overall performance is still desired to satisfy social requirements. In this work, ferric oxide nanoparticles encapsulated in biomass longan pulp-derived carbon are simply configurated, in which the longan pulp plays three main functions: (i) To ensure a nanorod-like structure when interacting with Fe3+; (ii) to construct a cubic phase of Fe(2)O(3 )by tuning the proper content of longan pulp; and (iii) to ensure good dispersion of Fe2O3 nanoparticles. As electrodes for LIBs, the novel composite shows a high initial discharge capacity of 1483.6 mAh g(-1) at 0.1 A g(-1) and maintains a capacity value of 626.6 mAh g(-1) even at 1.0 A g(-1) over 1000 cycles, which benefits from the synergistic effect between carbon nanorods and Fe2O3. The highly dispersed gamma-phase cubic Fe2O3 nanoparticles anchoring on the carbon substrate can increase the contact between the electrolyte and active materials; meanwhile, the longan-derived carbon substrate can compensate for the unfavorable electrical conductivity of Fe2O3 and buffer the volume expansion in the cycling process. This study provides an effective technique to utilize extensive natural resources and simple synthesis procedures for the preparation of novel hybrid anode materials.
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