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Author: Sun, Xiaolei × Subject: Electrochemical electrodes ×

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    High-defect hydrophilic carbon cuboids anchored with Co/CoO nanoparticles as highly efficient and ultra-stable lithium-ion battery anodes
    (Cambridge : Royal Society of Chemistry, 2016) Sun, Xiaolei; Hao, Guang-Ping; Lu, Xueyi; Xi, Lixia; Liu, Bo; Si, Wenping; Ma, Chuansheng; Liu, Qiming; Zhang, Qiang; Kaskel, Stefan; Schmidt, Oliver G.
    We propose an effective strategy to engineer a unique kind of porous carbon cuboid with tightly anchored cobalt/cobalt oxide nanoparticles (PCC–CoOx) that exhibit outstanding electrochemical performance for many key aspects of lithium-ion battery electrodes. The host carbon cuboid features an ultra-polar surface reflected by its high hydrophilicity and rich surface defects due to high heteroatom doping (N-/O-doping both higher than 10 atom%) as well as hierarchical pore systems. We loaded the porous carbon cuboid with cobalt/cobalt oxide nanoparticles through an impregnation process followed by calcination treatment. The resulting PCC–CoOx anode exhibits superior rate capability (195 mA h g−1 at 20 A g−1) and excellent cycling stability (580 mA h g−1 after 2000 cycles at 1 A g−1 with only 0.0067% capacity loss per cycle). Impressively, even after an ultra-long cycle life exceeding 10 000 cycles at 5 A g−1, the battery can recover to 1050 mA h g−1 at 0.1 A g−1, perhaps the best performance demonstrated so far for lithium storage in cobalt oxide-based electrodes. This study provides a new perspective to engineer long-life, high-power metal oxide-based electrodes for lithium-ion batteries through controlling the surface chemistry of carbon host materials.
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    Single “Swiss-roll” microelectrode elucidates the critical role of iron substitution in conversion-type oxides
    (Washington, DC [u.a.] : Assoc., 2022) Liu, Lixiang; Huang, Shaozhuan; Shi, Wujun; Sun, Xiaolei; Pang, Jinbo; Lu, Qiongqiong; Yang, Ye; Xi, Lixia; Deng, Liang; Oswald, Steffen; Yin, Yin; Liu, Lifeng; Ma, Libo; Schmidt, Oliver G.; Shi, Yumeng; Zhang, Lin
    Advancing the lithium-ion battery technology requires the understanding of electrochemical processes in electrode materials with high resolution, accuracy, and sensitivity. However, most techniques today are limited by their inability to separate the complex signals from slurry-coated composite electrodes. Here, we use a three-dimensional “Swiss-roll” microtubular electrode that is incorporated into a micrometer-sized lithium battery. This on-chip platform combines various in situ characterization techniques and precisely probes the intrinsic electrochemical properties of each active material due to the removal of unnecessary binders and additives. As an example, it helps elucidate the critical role of Fe substitution in a conversion-type NiO electrode by monitoring the evolution of Fe2O3 and solid electrolyte interphase layer. The markedly enhanced electrode performances are therefore explained. Our approach exposes a hitherto unexplored route to tracking the phase, morphology, and electrochemical evolution of electrodes in real time, allowing us to reveal information that is not accessible with bulk-level characterization techniques.