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ACS OMEGA
Volume 4, Issue 3, Pages 4888-4895Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.8b03637
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- U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) program [DE-EE0006852, DE-EE0007765]
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Sn-based alloy materials are strong candidates to replace graphitic carbon as the anode for the next generation lithium-ion batteries because of their much higher gravimetric and volumetric capacity. A series of nanosize SnyFe alloys derived from the chemical transformation of preformed Sn nanoparticles as templates have been synthesized and characterized. An optimized Sn5Fe/Sn2Fe anode with a core-shell structure delivered 541 mAh.g(-1) after 200 cycles at the C/2 rate, retaining close to 100% of the initial capacity. Its volumetric capacity is double that of commercial graphitic carbon. It also has an excellent rate performance, delivering 94.8, 84.3, 72.1, and 58.2% of the 0.1 C capacity (679.8 mAh/g) at 0.2, 0.5, 1 and 2 C, respectively. The capacity is recovered upon lowering the rate. The exceptional cycling/rate capability and higher gravimetric/volumetric capacity make the SnyFe alloy a potential candidate as the anode in lithium-ion batteries. The understanding of SnyFe alloys from this work also provides insight for designing other Sn-M (M = Co, Ni, Cu, Mn, etc.) system.
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