Issue 3, 2022

Metastable FeCN2@nitrogen-doped carbon with high pseudocapacitance as an anode material for sodium ion batteries

Abstract

Pseudocapacitive materials are good candidates for fast charging anodes of sodium ion batteries (SIB). However, pseudocapacitive materials with a high surface area face the severe problem of low initial coulombic efficiency. In this work, micro-sized nitrogen-doped carbon (NC) coated and supported polyhedron FeCN2 networks are designed and synthesized by a facile in situ gel-swelling technique. Impressively, FeCN2@NC as an SIB anode exhibits excellent rate performance with highly reversible rate capacities of 466 and 303 mA h g−1 at 0.2 and 10.0 A g−1, respectively. Furthermore, the FeCN2@NC anode shows a high initial coulombic efficiency (ICE) of 86% due to a low surface area. Electrochemical tests and density functional theory (DFT) calculation indicate that the metastable character enables the low intercalation/conversion reaction energy for FeCN2 and further greatly promotes the fast pseudocapacitive storage mechanism for FeCN2@NC. This work provides evidence that FeCN2 is a new type of metastability induced pseudocapacitive material with high initial coulombic efficiency.

Graphical abstract: Metastable FeCN2@nitrogen-doped carbon with high pseudocapacitance as an anode material for sodium ion batteries

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
11 Oct 2021
Accepted
05 Dec 2021
First published
06 Dec 2021

Nanoscale, 2022,14, 780-789

Metastable FeCN2@nitrogen-doped carbon with high pseudocapacitance as an anode material for sodium ion batteries

H. Qi, C. Zhao, J. Huang, C. He, L. Tang and W. Deng, Nanoscale, 2022, 14, 780 DOI: 10.1039/D1NR06705B

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