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Vol. 11 (2019)

Cobalt Sulfide Confined in N-Doped Porous Branched Carbon Nanotubes for Lithium-Ion Batteries

https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-019-0259-z
Yongsheng Zhou
College of Chemistry and Materials Engineering, Anhui Science and Technology University, Bengbu 233030, People’s Republic of China
Yingchun Zhu
Key Laboratory of Inorganic Coating Materials CAS, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, People’s Republic of China
Bingshe Xu
Key Laboratory of Interface Science and Engineering in Advanced Materials, Ministry of Education, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, People’s Republic of China
Xueji Zhang
Beijing Key Laboratory for Bioengineering and Sensing Technology, Research Center for Bioengineering and Sensing Technology, School of Chemistry and Bioengineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, 30 Xueyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100083, People’s Republic of China
Khalid A. Al‑Ghanim
Department of Zoology, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Shahid Mahboob
Department of Zoology, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Corresponding Author: Xueji Zhang

zhangxueji@ustb.edu.cn

Nano-Micro Letters, Vol. 11 (2019), Article Number: 29

Abstract

Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) are considered new generation of large-scale energy-storage devices. However, LIBs suffer from a lack of desirable anode materials with excellent specific capacity and cycling stability. In this work, we design a novel hierarchical structure constructed by encapsulating cobalt sulfide nanowires within nitrogen-doped porous branched carbon nanotubes (NBNTs) for LIBs. The unique hierarchical Co9S8@NBNT electrode displayed a reversible specific capacity of 1310 mAh g−1 at a current density of 0.1 A g−1, and was able to maintain a stable reversible discharge capacity of 1109 mAh g−1 at a current density of 0.5 A g−1 with coulombic efficiency reaching almost 100% for 200 cycles. The excellent rate and cycling capabilities can be ascribed to the hierarchical porosity of the one-dimensional Co9S8@NBNT internetworks, the incorporation of nitrogen doping, and the carbon nanotube confinement of the active cobalt sulfide nanowires offering a proximate electron pathway for the isolated nanoparticles and shielding of the cobalt sulfide nanowires from pulverization over long cycling periods.


Highlights:


1 A novel hierarchical structure constructed by encapsulating cobalt sulfide nanowires within nitrogen-doped porous branched carbon nanotubes (NBNTs) is designed for lithium-ion batteries.
2 The unique hierarchical Co9S8@NBNT electrode displayed a reversible specific capacity of 1310 mAh g−1 at a current density of 0.1 A g−1.

Keywords

Lithium-ion batteries Nitrogen doping Cobalt sulfide Branched carbon nanotubes
Zhou, Yongsheng, Yingchun Zhu, Bingshe Xu, Xueji Zhang, Khalid A. Al‑Ghanim, and Shahid Mahboob. 2019. “Cobalt Sulfide Confined in N-Doped Porous Branched Carbon Nanotubes for Lithium-Ion Batteries”. Nano-Micro Letters 11 (March):29. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-019-0259-z.
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