Porous Silicon/Carbon Composite for High-Performance Lithium-Ion Batteries

TIAN Zhen-yu; WANG Ya-fei; QIN Xin; Shaislamov Ulugbek; Hojamberdiev Mirabbos; ZHENG Tong-hui; DONG Shuo; ZHANG Xing-hao; KONG De-bin; ZHI Lin-jie

doi:10.1016/S1872-5805(24)60850-4

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TIAN Zhen-yu, WANG Ya-fei, QIN Xin, Shaislamov Ulugbek, Hojamberdiev Mirabbos, ZHENG Tong-hui, DONG Shuo, ZHANG Xing-hao, KONG De-bin, ZHI Lin-jie. Porous Silicon/Carbon Composite for High-Performance Lithium-Ion Batteries. New Carbon Mater.. doi: 10.1016/S1872-5805(24)60850-4

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TIAN Zhen-yu, WANG Ya-fei, QIN Xin, Shaislamov Ulugbek, Hojamberdiev Mirabbos, ZHENG Tong-hui, DONG Shuo, ZHANG Xing-hao, KONG De-bin, ZHI Lin-jie. Porous Silicon/Carbon Composite for High-Performance Lithium-Ion Batteries. New Carbon Mater.. doi: 10.1016/S1872-5805(24)60850-4

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TIAN Zhen-yu, WANG Ya-fei, QIN Xin, Shaislamov Ulugbek, Hojamberdiev Mirabbos, ZHENG Tong-hui, DONG Shuo, ZHANG Xing-hao, KONG De-bin, ZHI Lin-jie. Porous Silicon/Carbon Composite for High-Performance Lithium-Ion Batteries. New Carbon Mater.. doi: 10.1016/S1872-5805(24)60850-4

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Porous Silicon/Carbon Composite for High-Performance Lithium-Ion Batteries

doi: 10.1016/S1872-5805(24)60850-4

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School of Materials Science and Engineering, China University of Petroleum (East China), China
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College of New Energy, China University of Petroleum (East China), China
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Advanced Chemical Engineering and Energy Materials Research Center, China University of Petroleum (East China), China
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Center for Development of Nanotechnology at the National University of Uzbekistan, University str. 4, 100174 Tashkent, Uzbekistan
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Department of Physics, National University of Uzbekistan, University str. 4, 100174 Tashkent, Uzbekistan
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Institut für Chemie, Technische Universität Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, Germany

Funds: This work was financially supported by National Key Research and Development Program (2022YFE0127400), National Energy-Saving and Low-Carbon Materials Production and Application Demonstration Platform Program (TC220H06N), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (U20A20131), and Taishan Scholar Project of Shandong Province (No. ts202208832)

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Corresponding author: ZHI Lin-jie. E-mail: zhilj@upc.edu.cn
Received Date: 2024-01-24
Accepted Date: 2024-04-01
Rev Recd Date: 2024-04-01

Available Online: 2024-04-07

Abstract

Abstract

Silicon anodes as a promising candidate for lithium-ion batteries. However, their significant volume expansion leads to severe material fracture and electrical disconnection, which limits their practical application. This study proposed a new top-down strategy for microsized porous silicon and introducing polyacrylonitrile (PAN) as nitrogen-doped carbon coating, which designed to maintain the internal space and alleviate the outward expansion of the silicon anode during the lithiation and delithiation process. Subsequently, we explored the effect of temperature on the thermal transition behavior of PAN and the electrochemical behavior of the composite electrode. After the treatment at 400 °C, the PAN coating retained a high nitrogen doping content of 11.35 wt%, which explicitly confirmed the existence of C-N and C-O bonds that improved the ionic-electronic transport properties. This treatment not only retained a more intact carbon layer structure, but also introduced carbon defects, exhibiting remarkably stable cycling even at high rates. When cycled at 4 A g⁻¹, the optimized anode exhibited a specific capacity of 857.6 mAh g⁻¹ even after 200 cycles, demonstrating great potential for high-capacity energy storage applications.
- Porous silicon,
- Lithium-ion batteries,
- Polyacrylonitrile,
- Electrochemical behavior

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