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N-doped carbon nanosheets as high-performance anodes for Li- and Na-ion batteries

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A scalable preparation of in situ N-doped disordered carbon nanosheets from reduced melamine formaldehyde resin is demonstrated. For the first time, nanosheets prepared by such a process have been tested as anodes for lithium ion and sodium ion batteries. Li-ion battery half-cell delivers a reversible capacity of about 500 mA h/g at a specific current of 100 mA/g, and also a capacity of 250 mA h/g at a specific current of 500 mA/g is retained after 600 cycles. For Na-ion batteries, a reasonable capacity of about 150 mA h/g is recorded at a specific current of 50 mA/g, and a capacity of 120 mA h/g at a specific current of 250 mA/g is retained after 350 cycles. The sloppy low-voltage profile obtained for both the lithium ion and sodium ion cells corresponds to the nanosheet anodes, being soft carbon-like, thereby demonstrating superior cycling stability and safety by avoiding metal plating and dendrite formation.

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SD acknowledges the Science and Engineering Research Board for the award of Ramanujan Fellowship (Ref: SB/S2/RJN-100/2014). We are thankful to Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham for the financial support for the experimental work and fellowship for AKR.

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    Aswathy K. Radhakrishnan, Shantikumar Nair & Dhamodaran Santhanagopalan

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Radhakrishnan, A.K., Nair, S. & Santhanagopalan, D. N-doped carbon nanosheets as high-performance anodes for Li- and Na-ion batteries. Journal of Materials Research 35, 12–19 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1557/jmr.2019.330

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