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Osiers-sprout-like heteroatom-doped carbon nanofibers as ultrastable anodes for lithium/sodium ion storage

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We report an in situ carbothermic reduction process to prepare osiers-sprout-like heteroatom-doped carbon nanofibers. The dosage of copper salts and a unique annealing process have a crucial effect on the development of this unique carbon structure. A systematic analysis is performed to elucidate the possible mechanism of synthesis of the carbon nanofibers decorated with carbon bubbles. As anodes for rechargeable lithium/sodium ion batteries, the heteroatom-doped nanofibers exhibit high reversible capacities and satisfactory long-term cycling stabilities. The osiers-sprout-like heteroatom-doped carbon nanofiber electrodes deliver an ultrastable cycling performance with reversible capacities of 480 and 160 mAh·g−1 for lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries after 900 cycles at a current density of 800 mA·g−1, respectively.

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This work is financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 21527810, 21190041, 21521063, 11274107, 11574078 and 51702095) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 531107040992).

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    Hang Zhang & Jianhui Jiang

  2. State Key Laboratory of Advanced Design and Manufacturing for Vehicle Body, National Engineering Research Center for High Efficiency Grinding, College of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, China

    Guanhua Zhang, Zhiqin Li, Huimin Shi, Qingfeng Zhang & Huigao Duan

  3. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02139, USA

    Ke Qu

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Zhang, H., Zhang, G., Li, Z. et al. Osiers-sprout-like heteroatom-doped carbon nanofibers as ultrastable anodes for lithium/sodium ion storage. Nano Res. 11, 3791–3801 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-017-1953-0

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