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Regulation of solvation structure and the cooperation environment of potassium bonds for wider-temperature adaptive potassium storage

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Antimony selenide (Sb2Se3) is one of the perspective candidates for potassium-ion batteries due to its advanced virtues stem including featured high capacity, fertile reserves and the relative narrow band gap. Despite the unique advantages, it is still plagued by the unstable interface compatibility and poor wider-temperature adaptability. The optimization of microstructure and the construction of inorganic-organic hybrids with a low desolvation barrier and rapid kinetics behaviors are efficient to address these issues. The Sb2Se3 nanorods enclosed by the S-doped carbon layer (SC), further crosslinked by the poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PM) film (PM@Sb2Se3@SC), were artificially fabricated, and it displays the enrichment ion aggregated model as well as contacted ion pair state, the well-tailored cooperation environment of potassium bonds, assuring a homogeneous potassium deposition and an excellent wider-temperature adaptability. The complicated experimental studies and theoretical calculations authenticate the synergistic effects of geometric conformation and compositional design for the tremendously enhanced potassium storage. Moreover, the full device over PM@Sb2Se3@SC anode and the potassium Prussian blue cathode manifests impressively durable cycling life and wider-temperature adaptability, verifying the glorious contribution from the finely manipulation in solvation structure and potassium bonds to enhancing the potassium storage behaviors.

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Sb2Se3具有理论容量大、储量丰富、能带间隙相对较窄等优点，是钾离子电池（PIBs）的候选材料之一。尽管具有独特的优势，但其仍然存在界面兼容性不稳定、温度适应性差等问题。优化微观结构和构建具有低迁移势垒和快速动力学行为的无机-有机杂化材料是解决这些问题的有效途径。人工合成了硫掺杂的碳层（SC）包覆，再通过聚（N-异丙基丙烯酰胺）薄膜进行交联的Sb2Se3纳米棒（PM@Sb2Se3@SC），它表现出聚集离子对状态（AGG）和接触离子对状态（CIP），以及良好的钾键配位环境，确保了均匀的钾沉积和良好的宽温度适应性。复杂的实验研究和理论计算证实了几何构象和组分设计对极大地提高储钾容量具有协同效应。此外，以PM@Sb2Se3@SC为负极和含钾的普鲁士蓝（KPB）为正极组装为全电池，全电池表现出令人印象深刻的持久循环寿命和更宽的温度适应性，验证了溶剂化结构和对钾键强度的调控对提高钾存储性能的巨大贡献。

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This study was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 22175103) and Young Taishan Scholar project of Shandong province.

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    Bing-Bing Liu, Yi-Hui Liu, You-Bin Zhang, Zhen-Guo Qi & Guo-Hui Qin

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Liu, BB., Liu, YH., Zhang, YB. et al. Regulation of solvation structure and the cooperation environment of potassium bonds for wider-temperature adaptive potassium storage. Rare Met. 43, 1610–1621 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12598-023-02524-5

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