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Synthesis of biomass-derived 3D porous graphene-like via direct solid-state transformation and its potential utilization in lithium-ion battery

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Biomass-derived porous carbon materials have recently received considerable attention for the use in energy storage devices due to the low cost. In the work here, water-absorbing biomass of agarics has been used directly to synthesize three-dimensional porous graphene-like (3D-PGL) via a facile, economical, and eco-friendly two-step solid-state transformation process. Characterization results reveal that Fe3+ pre-adsorbed agarics are carbonized to be uniform Fe3O4/C composite in the first step. Then the C precursor is catalyzed to be 3D-graphene in the second step by in situ-formed Fe that was reduced by C around. When assembled as anodes for lithium-ion batteries, the 3D-PGL delivers excellent cycling performance (as high as 572 mAh g−1 after 1200 cycles’ running at 0.2 A g−1). Furthermore, it is worth to mention that when tuning the amount of pre-adsorbed Fe3+, two-dimensional graphene sheet (2D-GS) is obtained.

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This work was supported by the National Science Foundation for Young Scientists of China (Grant 21403073), the Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities of SCUT, China (Grant 2015ZZ118), and Guangdong Innovative and Entrepreneurial Research Team Program (Grant 2014ZT05N200).

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    Mengkun Wang, Shuang Cheng, Minghai Yao, Yuanyuan Zhu, Peng Wu, Haowei Luo, Lufeng Yang & Lujie Tang

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Wang, M., Cheng, S., Yao, M. et al. Synthesis of biomass-derived 3D porous graphene-like via direct solid-state transformation and its potential utilization in lithium-ion battery. Ionics 24, 1879–1886 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11581-018-2439-0

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