Journal
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
Volume 344, Issue -, Pages 625-632Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2018.03.078
Keywords
Lithium ion battery; High gravimetric specific capacity; High volumetric specific capacity; Close-packed collagen fibers; High tap density
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51507107, 21676171]
- Fok Ying Tong Education Foundation for Young Teachers in the Higher Education Institutions of China [161099]
- Science and Technology Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of Sichuan Province [2016JQ0002]
- 1000 Talents Program of Sichuan Province
- national Key R&D Program of China [2017YFB0308500]
- Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholar of Sichuan University [2017SCU04A04]
- Moist and Sweet Fragrance Style Project of China Tobacco Sichuan Industrial Corporation Limited [RTX201819]
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The fabrication of nanostructure can alleviate the problem of electrode pulverization so as to exhibit high cycling stability with large gravimetric energy density. However, the high volumetric fraction of voids in nanomaterials inevitably results in low tap density and poor volumetric energy density. Herein, we prepared micron-sized hierarchical fibrous bundle that is composed of C@Sn@C nanofibers with close-packing arrangement. The C@Sn@C primary nanofiber provided efficient structural accommodation to the huge volumetric change, showing high cycling stability with large gravimetric energy density. The close-packing of constituent C@Sn@C nanofibers minimizes the voids and porosity of formed micron-sized fibrous bundle, exhibiting an extremely high tap density of 1.31 g cm(-3), superior to the sandwiched CNTs@Sn@C nanofiber (0.53 g cm(-3)) and MicroC@Sn@C microfiber (0.94 g cm(-3)) without close-packing arrangement. At the current density of 0.5 A g(-1), the gravimetric energy density of C@Sn@C nanofiber bundle still reached similar to 580 mAh g(-1), with corresponding volumetric energy density of similar to 760 mAh cm(-3), higher than those of CNTs@Sn@C and MicroC@Sn@C by similar to 437 and similar to 210 mAh cm(-3), respectively. Notably, the gravimetric energy density of C@Sn@C nanofiber bundle is superior to most transition-metal oxides, and the volumetric energy density is comparable to high-performance Si anodes.
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