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Pomegranate-like mesoporous double carbon-coated Fe2P nanoparticles as advanced anode materials for sodium-ion batteries

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Anode materials have limited the development of sodium-ion batteries (SIBs). In this paper, the novel pomegranate-like mesoporous double carbon-coated Fe2P nanoparticles (Fe2P@C@NC), in which Fe2P is confined in the thin carbon shell derived from phytic acid and then wholly embedded into N-doped carbon network, can be applied as anode materials for SIBs. The elaborated structure presents several prominent merits, such as large specific surface area, pore-volume, excellent electronic conductivity network, and buffering volume expansion. All of these endow the structural integrity of Fe2P@C@NC material with excellent performance during charge–discharge cycles and guarantee speedy electrode reaction kinetics. As SIBs anode, Fe2P@C@NC material delivers an excellent reversible specific capacity of 408 mAh g−1 with almost no decay after the 100th cycles. And it also features excellent rate capability and splendid durability (attenuation rate of 0.05% per cycle with 1000th cycles) at high current density. These results confirm that the unique self-confined growth strategy has a great practical value in synthesizing advanced materials for next-generation energy storage systems.

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National Natural Science Foundation of China supported this work (51802128), the Science and Technology Project of Xuzhou (KC21005), The natural science research project of Jiangsu University (21KJA430003), The Postgraduate Research & Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province (KYCX20_2352), Project (2020-KF-20) supported by the Foundation of State Key Laboratory of High-Efficiency Utilization of Coal and Green Chemical Engineering, China, and College Students’ Innovation and Entrepreneurship Project (202110320029Z).

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  2. State Key Laboratory of High-Efficiency Utilization of Coal and Green Chemical Engineering, College Of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Ningxia University, Yinchuan, 750021, People’s Republic of China

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ZW contributed to the experiments and writing-original draft. YW helped in the experiments and data analysis. ZL was involved in the formal analysis. YL helped in writing-review. QL contributed to the physical characterization-XRD, SEM, and TEM. XL contributed to the physical characterization-Raman, BET, XPS. Xin Ma helped in writing-review. SY was involved in the supervision and writing editing. XY contributed to the experimental design, writing-review, and supervision.

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Wu, Z., Wang, Y., Liu, Z. et al. Pomegranate-like mesoporous double carbon-coated Fe2P nanoparticles as advanced anode materials for sodium-ion batteries. J Mater Sci 57, 9389–9402 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-022-07257-x

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