Journal
ADVANCED MATERIALS
Volume 30, Issue 32, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201802074
Keywords
hierarchical carbon nanotubes; hyperporous sponges; K-ion batteries; structure stability
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- National Key R&D Program of China [2017YFA0206701, 2016YFE0127300]
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Recently, commercial graphite and other carbon-based materials have shown promising properties as the anode for potassium-ion batteries. A fundamental problem related to those carbon electrodes, significant volume expansion, and structural instability/collapsing caused by cyclic K-ion intercalation, remains unsolved and severely limits further development and applications of K-ion batteries. Here, a multiwalled hierarchical carbon nanotube (HCNT) is reported to address the issue, and a reversible specific capacity of 232 mAh g(-1), excellent rate capability, and cycling stability for 500 cycles are achieved. The key structure of the HCNTs consists of an inner CNT with dense-stacked graphitic walls and a loose-stacked outer CNT with more disordered walls, and individual HCNTs are further interconnected into a hyperporous bulk sponge with huge macropore volume, high conductivity, and tunable modulus. It is discovered that the inner dense-CNT serves as a robust skeleton, and collectively, the outer loose-CNT is beneficial for K-ion accommodation; meanwhile the hyperporous sponge facilitates reaction kinetics and offers stable surface capacitive behavior. The hierarchical carbon nanotube structure has great potential in developing high-performance and stable-structure electrodes for next generation K and other metal-ion batteries.
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