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Heteroatom‐doped nanoporous carbon with high rate performance as anode for sodium-ion batteries

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Heteroatom doping was considered as an effective strategy to improve the electrochemical performance of carbon anode material for sodium-ion batteries (SIBs). In this work, heteroatom (N, P and O)-doped nanoporous carbon (HDNPC) was obtained through a simple pyrolysis process using ionic liquid as a source of heteroatoms. The synergistic effect of nanoporous structure and the heteroatom doping in the carbon framework provides the HDNPC with abundant defects and active sites, enlarged interlay space and short ion diffusion distance, which favor Na+ intercalation/deintercalation and thus improve the specific capacity and rate performance of the HDNPC. As a result, when used as anode material for SIBs, the HDNPC exhibits reversible capacities of 226.6, 200.2, 173.9, 155.6, 137.4 and 126.8 mAh g− 1 at 0.1, 0.2, 0.5, 1, 2 and 3A g− 1, respectively, and delivers a capacity of 114.3 mAh g− 1 at a current density of 5.0 A g− 1 after 500 cycles.

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This work was supported by the National Nature Science Foundation of China (NFSC) (Grant Nos. 51364024, 51404124 and 52064035) and the fund of the State Key Laboratory of Advanced Processing and Recycling of Non-ferrous Metals, Lanzhou University of Technology (SKLAB02019015).

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    Guofeng Ren

  3. State Key Laboratory of Advanced Processing and Recycling of Non-ferrous Metals, Lanzhou, 730050, China

    Yanshuang Meng & Fuliang Zhu

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Meng, Y., Lin, R., Duan, M. et al. Heteroatom‐doped nanoporous carbon with high rate performance as anode for sodium-ion batteries. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 32, 8295–8303 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-021-05343-5

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