Robust graphene oxide-coated porous biochar skeleton constructed on SnO2 nanoparticles as high-performance composite anode for lithium-ion batteries
摘要
SnO2 is regarded as a promising lithium storage material due to the advantage of sequential conversion-alloying reaction mechanism. Unfortunately, large volume expansion and undesirable reaction reversibility are identified as two fatal drawbacks. Herein, SnO2 nanoparticles encapsulated in graphene oxide-coated porous biochar skeleton (SnO2/PB@GO) are skillfully constructed via an efficient one-step hydrothermal process to be employed as composite anode materials, in which the PB skeleton extracted from waste tea-seed shells possesses enough space to buffer drastic volume variation and the GO coating acts as robust physical matrix to prevent structural degradation. Moreover, double-carbon components successfully anchor SnO2 nanoparticles to promote contact and reaction between Sn and Li2O to guarantee high reaction reversibility and structural integration of SnO2/PB@GO electrode. As expected, SnO2/PB@GO-based cell achieves high reversible specific capacity of 783.5 mAh·g−1 after 100 cycles at 0.1 A·g−1 and delivers desirable cycling stability with capacity retention ratio of 81.62% after 300 cycles at 1.0 A·g−1. Therefore, this work may provide new perspectives on the modification of conversion or alloying type anodes for lithium-ion batteries and present a feasible strategy to take full advantage of the waste biomass.
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