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Effects of Different Atmosphere on Electrochemical Performance of Hard Carbon Electrode in Sodium Ion Battery

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Hard carbon is deemed to be a most promising anode materials for sodium—ion batteries (SIBs), while, the issues of low capacity and low initial coulombic efficiency still exist limiting the development of SIBs. Although high temperature carbonization of biomass materials under nitrogen or argon atmosphere is a common method for preparation of hard carbon, there are few reports about the effects of different protective atmospheres on propriety of hard carbon. In this article, hornet’s nest (HN) is used to prepare hard carbon under nitrogen and argon. At a suitable carbonization temperature (1200 °C and 1400 °C), the hard carbon under argon possesses lower specific surface area (25–50 cm−3 g−1), but higher initial coulomb efficiency (4–6%) and higher capacity retention (3–6%). Thus, it is inferred that high—performance hard carbon can be obtained under argon atmosphere. Our research about the effect of sintering atmosphere on material properties is expected to provide a reference for the synthetization of hard carbon by high temperature carbonization.

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This work was financially supported by Sichuan Science and Technology Program (2017HH0067, 2018GZ0006 and 2018GZ0134).

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    Ziqiang Xu, Jinchen Chen, Mengqiang Wu, Cheng Chen & Yaochen Song

  2. Center of Excellence in Transportation Electrification and Energy Storage, Hydro Québec, 1800 Boulevard Lionel-boulet, Varennes, QC, J3 × 1S1, Canada

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Y. Wang Z. Xu, and M. Wu designed the experiment. J. Chen, C. Chen, Y. Song, Z. Chen, and J. Liu prepared HN. J. Chen performed all electrochemical characterization. J. Chen, C. Chen, Y. Song, Z. Xu, M. Wu, and Y. Wang carried out and analyzed materials characterization and electrochemical measurements. J. Chen, Z. Xu, and Y. Wang wrote this paper. The manuscript was written through contributions of all authors.

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Xu, Z., Chen, J., Wu, M. et al. Effects of Different Atmosphere on Electrochemical Performance of Hard Carbon Electrode in Sodium Ion Battery. Electron. Mater. Lett. 15, 428–436 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13391-019-00143-w

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