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Synthesis of NiS/carbon composites as anodes for high-performance sodium-ion batteries

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We demonstrate a general solid-state synthesis of nickel sulfide (NiS) and carbon-based composites (NiS/C) via simple thermal decomposition of nickel dibutyldithiocarbamate (C18H36N2NiS4) under ambient atmosphere, which can be applied to various carbon-based materials such as 2D graphene nanosheets (GNSs), 1D carbon nanotubes (CNTs), and 0D carbon black (CB). When used as anode materials for sodium-ion batteries (SIBs), the as-prepared NiS/C composites demonstrate excellent sodium storage properties including superior cycle stability and rate capability, delivering reversible capacities of 483 (for NiS/GNSs), 394 (for NiS/CNTs), and 413 mAh/g (for NiS/CB) at a current density of 200 mA/g after 100 cycles, respectively, which are much higher than that of the bare NiS counterpart (136 mAh/g at 200 mA/g after 100 cycles). Moreover, reversible capacities of 372 mAh/g for NiS/GNSs, 331 mAh/g for NiS/CNTs, and 317 mAh/g for NiS/CB are realized at a high rate of 2 A/g. The excellent electrochemical performance can be attributed to the introduction of the carbon-based materials, which not only serve as efficient buffering matrixes to tolerate the volume changes of NiS upon sodiation/desodiation but also improve the electrode conductivity. More importantly, this work provides a straightforward and general synthetic approach for designing various NiS/C composites as high-performance anodes for electrochemical energy storage.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 51402232 and 51521065) and the Open Fund of the State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices (South China University of Technology, Grant No. 2016-skllmd-04). The authors also thanks Ms. Yanzhu Dai and Mr. Chuansheng Ma for their help with SEM/TEM measurements, carried out at the International Center for Dielectric Research (ICDR), Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China.

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    Jinkai Wang, Daxian Cao & Hongkang Wang

  2. Frontier Institute of Science and Technology, State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710049, People’s Republic of China

    Jinkai Wang & Yaodong Yang

  3. Department of Chemical Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710049, People’s Republic of China

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Wang, J., Cao, D., Yang, G. et al. Synthesis of NiS/carbon composites as anodes for high-performance sodium-ion batteries. J Solid State Electrochem 21, 3047–3055 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10008-017-3600-9

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