Sulfur-Doped Mesoporous Carbon Nitride with an Ordered Porous Structure for Sodium-Ion Batteries
| Autor: | Selvarajan Premkumar, Sungho Kim, In Young Kim, Siva Umapathy, Ajayan Vinu, Wangsoo Cha, K. Gopalakrishnan, Jang Mee Lee, Kavitha Ramadass |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Materials science
Heteroatom Sodium-ion battery chemistry.chemical_element 02 engineering and technology Nitride 010402 general chemistry 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology Electrochemistry 01 natural sciences 7. Clean energy 0104 chemical sciences Anode chemistry.chemical_compound chemistry Chemical engineering General Materials Science 0210 nano-technology Mesoporous material Carbon nitride Carbon |
| Zdroj: | ACS applied materialsinterfaces. 11(30) |
| ISSN: | 1944-8252 |
| Popis: | Mesoporous carbon nitride (MCN) with well-ordered porous structures is a promising anode material for secondary ion batteries owing to their unique physico- and electrochemical properties. However, the practical application of these MCNs in sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) is still limited because of their confined interlayer distance, which results in restricted accommodation of Na ions inside the lattice. Here, we report on the synthesis of highly ordered sulfur-doped MCN (S-MCN) through a hard template approach by employing dithiooxamide (DTO) as a single molecular precursor containing carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur elements. The interlayer distance of carbon nitride is significantly expanded upon the introduction of larger S ions on the MCN lattice, which enables high capability of Na ion accommodation. We also demonstrate through the first-principles density functional theory calculation that the present S-MCN is highly optimized not only for the chemical structure but also for uptaking abundant Na ions with high adsorption energy. The specific discharge capacity of SIBs appears to be remarkably enhanced for S-MCN (304.2 mA h g-1) compared to the nonporous S-CN (167.9 mA h g-1) and g-C3N4 (5.4 mA h g-1), highlighting the pivotal roles of the highly ordered mesoporous structure and S-doping in enhancing the electrochemical functionality of carbon nitride as an anode material for SIBs. |
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