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Constructing ultrastable electrode/electrolyte interface for rapid potassium ion storage capability via salt chemistry and interfacial engineering

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Conversion/alloying anode materials exhibiting high K storage capacities suffer from large volume variations and unstable electrode/electrolyte interfaces upon cycling. Herein, taking SnS/reduced graphene oxide (SnS/rGO) anodes as an example, the electrochemical performance of SnS/rGO could significantly be improved via employing potassium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide (KFSI) salt in electrolytes and ultrathin TiO2 coating. KF-rich inorganic layer was demonstrated to help form robust SEI layer, which could suppress the side reactions to increase the Coulombic efficiency. The formed potassiated KxTiO2 coating layer was constructed to boost charge transfer capability and K-ion diffusion kinetics. The as-prepared SnS/rGO@TiO2-20 electrode in KFSI electrolyte delivers the high CE of 99.1% and 424 mAh·g−1 after 200 cycles with an ultrahigh capacity retention of 98.5%.

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The authors are grateful for financial support from the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Nos. 19CX05002A and 17CX02039A), the Project of Science and Technology of Chongzuo City (FA2020008), the Key Research and Development Plan of Shandong Province (2018GGX102017), the New Faculty Start-up Funding in the China University of Petroleum (East China) (YJ201601023), and the Special Project Fund of “Taishan Scholars” of Shandong Province (ts201511017).

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    Sheng Wen, Xin Gu, Xiangwei Ding, Li Zhang, Pengcheng Dai, Liangjun Li, Dandan Liu & Xuebo Zhao

  2. Institute of Environmental Engineering, School of Metallurgy and Environment, Central South University, Changsha, 410083, China

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  3. Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, 2522, Australia

    Wenchao Zhang & Zaiping Guo

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Wen, S., Gu, X., Ding, X. et al. Constructing ultrastable electrode/electrolyte interface for rapid potassium ion storage capability via salt chemistry and interfacial engineering. Nano Res. 15, 2083–2091 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-021-3830-0

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