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Nitrogen-doped carbon/SiOx composites from rice husks as a high-performance anode for lithium-ion batteries

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Rice husks as agricultural waste contain abundant Si, C and N elements. We used rice husks as raw materials, ZnCl2 as morphology control agent via a simple magnesiothermic reduction method to prepare nitrogen-doped carbon/SiOx (N–C/SiOx) composites as anode materials of lithium ion batteries. The composites exhibit high reversible capacity (at a current density of 100 mA g−1, after 100 cycles the discharge capacity as high as 1110 mAh g−1), excellent cycling stability and outstanding rate performance (the discharge capacity reach 896, 665, 440, 310 and 225 mAh g−1 at the current density of 100, 200, 500, 1000 and 2000 mA g−1, respectively). The nice electrochemical performance of N–C/SiOx anode materials attribute to the composites with ultrafine nanoparticles, which can release the stress generated during volume expansion timely. In addition, carbon in the composites is highly available to reduce the side reaction. Besides, N doping is an efficient way to improve the conductivity of composites. The rice husks-drived N–C/SiOx composites synthesized by an environmentally friendly and economically method with satisfied electrochemical performance, which provide a promise for commercial of Si-based anode materials.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [Grant No. 51702200].

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  1. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Xi’an, 710021, Shaanxi, People’s Republic of China

    Jiajia Song, Shouwu Guo, Lingjiang Kou, Hui Liu, Jiaxin Su & Peng Zheng

  2. Research Laboratory of Hydrothermal Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, Kochi University, Kochi, 780-8081, Japan

    Jiajia Song, Lingjiang Kou & Koji Kajiyoshi

  3. Department of Electronic Engineering, School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, People’s Republic of China

    Shouwu Guo

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Song, J., Guo, S., Kou, L. et al. Nitrogen-doped carbon/SiOx composites from rice husks as a high-performance anode for lithium-ion batteries. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 31, 16037–16043 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-020-04168-y

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