Back to Search
Start Over
Flowable sulfur template induced fully interconnected pore structures in graphene artefacts towards high volumetric potassium storage
- Source :
- Nano Energy. 72:104729
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2020.
-
Abstract
- Graphite intercalation compounds are promising anode materials for potassium-ion batteries, but still have problems of sluggish kinetics and a large volume expansion upon potassiation. Porous carbons with a large ion-accessible area used as anode materials can have a high gravimetric capacity and structural stability. However, to avoid a low volumetric performance in porous carbons, an electrode must have both a high density and fast ion-transport channels and these pose stringent requirements for the pore structure. Here we use a flowable sulfur template to produce continually- and precisely-tunable pores in three-dimensional graphene assemblies. During capillary drying of graphene hydrogel, sulfur accompanied with the shrinking graphene sheets controls the formation of pores with precise sizes by tuning the usage. The pores formed are open and interlinked due to the existence of a flowable sulfur template in the graphene network. This obtained graphene-assembly with well-controlled interconnected pores is used as potassium-ion battery anodes and gives a stable cycling performance (500 cycles) and an ultrahigh volumetric capacity.
- Subjects :
- Battery (electricity)
Materials science
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Graphene
Intercalation (chemistry)
chemistry.chemical_element
02 engineering and technology
010402 general chemistry
021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology
01 natural sciences
Sulfur
0104 chemical sciences
law.invention
Anode
chemistry
Chemical engineering
law
Electrode
Gravimetric analysis
General Materials Science
Graphite
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
0210 nano-technology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 22112855
- Volume :
- 72
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Nano Energy
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........1addb34df6e861b2c1ba85313498bfc3