An innovative and efficient method for the preparation of mesocarbon microbeads and their use in the electrodes of lithium ion batteries and electric double layer capacitors

DONG Si-lin; YANG Jian-xiao; CHANG Sheng-kai; SHI Kui; LIU Yue; ZOU Jia-ling; LI Jun

doi:10.1016/S1872-5805(22)60606-1

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DONG Si-lin, YANG Jian-xiao, CHANG Sheng-kai, SHI Kui, LIU Yue, ZOU Jia-ling, LI Jun. An innovative and efficient method for the preparation of mesocarbon microbeads and their use in the electrodes of lithium ion batteries and electric double layer capacitors. New Carbon Mater., 2023, 38(1): 173-189. doi: 10.1016/S1872-5805(22)60606-1

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DONG Si-lin, YANG Jian-xiao, CHANG Sheng-kai, SHI Kui, LIU Yue, ZOU Jia-ling, LI Jun. An innovative and efficient method for the preparation of mesocarbon microbeads and their use in the electrodes of lithium ion batteries and electric double layer capacitors. New Carbon Mater., 2023, 38(1): 173-189. doi: 10.1016/S1872-5805(22)60606-1

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DONG Si-lin, YANG Jian-xiao, CHANG Sheng-kai, SHI Kui, LIU Yue, ZOU Jia-ling, LI Jun. An innovative and efficient method for the preparation of mesocarbon microbeads and their use in the electrodes of lithium ion batteries and electric double layer capacitors. New Carbon Mater., 2023, 38(1): 173-189. doi: 10.1016/S1872-5805(22)60606-1

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An innovative and efficient method for the preparation of mesocarbon microbeads and their use in the electrodes of lithium ion batteries and electric double layer capacitors

doi: 10.1016/S1872-5805(22)60606-1

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Hunan Province Key Laboratory for Advanced Carbon Materials and Applied Technology, College of Materials Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China
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School of Chemistry and Biological Engineering, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha 410114, China

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董斯琳. E-mail：silindong@hnu.edu.cn
Corresponding author: YANG Jian-xiao, Associate professor. E-mail: yangjianxiao@hnu.edu.cn
Received Date: 2022-01-04
Rev Recd Date: 2022-03-15

Available Online: 2022-04-01

Publish Date: 2023-01-06

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An innovative and efficient method for preparation of mesocarbon microbeads (MCMBs) was developed based on the dripping behavior and rheological properties of molten pitch during melt-spinning, where a string of beads was formed after the pitch was extruded from spinnerets and dropped into a receiving solvent (tetrohydrofuran or water). The pitch droplets were first carbonized, then activated by KOH or graphitized at 2800 °C to prepare A-MCMBs or G-MCMBs, respectively, and these were respectively used as the electrode materials for electric double layer capacitors (EDLCs) and lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). Results showed that both MCMB-W prepared using water as the receiving solvent and MCMB-T prepared using tetrohydrofuran as the receiving solvent had a spherical shape with sizes of 1-2 μm. A-MCMB-T had a high specific surface area (1 391 m² g⁻¹), micropore volume (0.55 cm³ g⁻¹) and mesopore volume (0.24 cm³ g⁻¹), with a 30% higher specific capacitance than an activated mesophase carbon prepared under the same conditions, and its capacitance retention was significantly improved when it was used as an electrode material for EDLCs. G-MCMB-T had a high degree of graphitization (0.895) and when it was used as an electrode material for LIBs it had a high specific capacity of 353.5 mAh g⁻¹ after 100 cycles at 100 mA g⁻¹. This work reports a new preparation method for MCMBs, which could be used to prepare energy storage materials.
- Mesophase pitch,
- Mesocarbon microbeads,
- Delayed capillary breakup,
- Lithium-ion batteries,
- Electronic double layer capacitors

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