Journal
ELECTROCHIMICA ACTA
Volume 180, Issue -, Pages 78-85Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2015.08.100
Keywords
lithium-ion batteries; pseudocapacity; interfacial lithium storage; porous carbon spheres; Fe3C
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21165010, 21465014, 21465015]
- Science and Technology Support Program of Jiangxi Province [20123BBE50104, 20133BBE50008]
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province [20142BAB203101]
- Ministry of Education by the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education [20133604110002]
- Ground Plan of Science and Technology Projects of Jiangxi Educational Committee [KJLD14023]
- Jiangxi Normal University [YC2013-B026]
- Scientific Research Funds of Jiangxi Normal University [5487]
- Innovation Foundation for graduate student of Jiangxi Province
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The search of advanced anodes has been an important way to satisfy the ever-growing-demands on high rate performance lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). It was observed that the capacity of Fe3C as an anode is larger than its theoretical one, which might be attributed to the pseudocapacity on the interface between the carbide and electrolyte. In this work, a novel carbon sphere doped with Fe3C nanoparticles was fabricated and tested as the anode in LIBs. In the first place, iron precursors were embedded in the cross-link polymer resorcinol-formaldehyde (RF) spheres via a facile hydrothermal reaction, in which RF served as the carbon source and ethanol as a dispersant agent. Consequently, the hydrothermal products were carbonized successively at 700 degrees C under inert atmosphere to obtain porous carbon spheres doped with Fe3C. When the composite severed as an anode in LIBs, its discharge capacity increased to the largest during the first 250-400 cycles, then dropped down to a similar level of that after 1000 cycles at different current rates. The discharge capacity of the composite increased from similar to 300 mAh g(-1) to similar to 540 mAh g(-1) at the current of 100 mA g(-1) during the initial hundreds cycles, and even a discharge capacity of similar to 230 mAh g(-1) at the current of 2000 mA g(-1). Moreover, it was observed that a discharge plateau gradually appeared between 0.7 similar to 1.1 V during the first hundreds of cycles. The electrochemical behaviors of the anode before 1000 discharge/charge cycles were compared with that after 1000 discharge/charge cycles by cyclic voltammetry and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy to find out the differences between their features. The high rate performance of LIBs might result from the decomposition of electrolyte and the pseudocapacity behavior presented on the interfacial (surface) lithium storage of the active materials. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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