Boosting Li/Na storage performance of graphite by defect engineering

Mingyang Ou; Shixiong Sun; Yi Liu; Yue Xu; Chang Chen; Pei Hu; Chun Fang; Qing Li; Jiantao Han

doi:10.1039/D1RA03102C

Boosting Li/Na storage performance of graphite by defect engineering†

Mingyang Ou,‡^a Shixiong Sun,‡^a Yi Liu,^a Yue Xu,^a Chang Chen,*^cd Pei Hu,

*^ab Chun Fang,^a Qing Li

^a and Jiantao Han

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^a State Key Laboratory of Material Processing and Die & Mould Technology, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, P. R. China

^b School of Science, Hubei University of Technology, Wuhan 430068, P. R. China
E-mail: hupei@hbut.edu.cn

^c State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Soil Health and Green Remediation, Wuhan 430070, P. R. China

^d College of Resource and Environment, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, P. R. China
E-mail: changchen@mail.hzau.edu.cn

Abstract

Regulating material properties by accurately designing its structure has always been a research hotspot. In this study, by a simple and eco-friendly mechanical ball milling, we could successfully engineer the defect degree of the graphite. Moreover, according to the accurate deconstruction of the structure by atomic pair distribution function analysis (PDF) and X-ray absorption near-edge structure analysis (XANES), those structural defects of the ball-milled graphite (BMG) mainly exist as carbon atom vacancies within the graphene structure, which are beneficial to enhance the lithium and sodium storage performance of BMG. Therefore, BMG-30 h exhibits superior lithium and sodium storage performance.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D1RA03102C
Article type: Paper
Submitted: 21 Apr 2021
Accepted: 04 Jun 2021
First published: 24 Jun 2021
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RSC Adv., 2021,11, 22297-22304

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M. Ou, S. Sun, Y. Liu, Y. Xu, C. Chen, P. Hu, C. Fang, Q. Li and J. Han, RSC Adv., 2021, 11, 22297 DOI: 10.1039/D1RA03102C

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