Graphene Oxide‐Template Controlled Cuboid‐Shaped High‐Capacity VS4 Nanoparticles as Anode for Sodium‐Ion Batteries |
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| Authors: | Sizhe Wang Feng Gong Shize Yang Jiaxuan Liao Mengqiang Wu Ziqiang Xu Cheng Chen Xiaofei Yang Feipeng Zhao Bin Wang Yuesheng Wang Xueliang Sun |
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| Affiliation: | 1. School of Materials and Energy, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, P. R. China;2. Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada;3. Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA;4. School of Chemical, Biological, and Materials Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA;5. Center of Excellence in Transportation Electrification, and Energy Storage Hydro Québec, Varennes, Québec, Canada |
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| Abstract: | Room‐temperature sodium‐ion batteries have attracted great attentions for large‐scale energy storage applications in renewable energy. However, exploring suitable anode materials with high reversible capacity and cyclic stability is still a challenge. The VS4, with parallel quasi‐1D chains structure of V4+(S22?)2, which provides large interchain distance of 5.83 Å and high capacity, has showed great potential for sodium storage. Here, the uniform cuboid‐shaped VS4 nanoparticles are prepared as anode for sodium‐ion batteries by the controllable of graphene oxide (GO)‐template contents. It exhibits superb electrochemical performances of high‐specific charge capacity (≈580 mAh·g?1 at 0.1 A·g?1), long‐cycle‐life (≈98% retain at 0.5 A·g?1 after 300 cycles), and high rates (up to 20 A·g?1). In addition, electrolytes are optimized to understand the sodium storage mechanism. It is thus demonstrated that the findings have great potentials for the applications in high‐performance sodium‐ion batteries. |
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| Keywords: | anode materials electrolytes reduced graphene oxide sodium‐ion batteries VS4
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