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Laser-Derived Interfacial Confinement Enables Planar Growth of 2D SnS2 on Graphene for High-Flux Electron/Ion Bridging in Sodium Storage

https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-022-00829-1
Xiaosa Xu
State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing, Centre for Nano Energy Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Shaanxi Joint Laboratory of Graphene (NPU), Xi’an 710072, People’s Republic of China
Fei Xu
State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing, Centre for Nano Energy Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Shaanxi Joint Laboratory of Graphene (NPU), Xi’an 710072, People’s Republic of China
Xiuhai Zhang
State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing, Centre for Nano Energy Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Shaanxi Joint Laboratory of Graphene (NPU), Xi’an 710072, People’s Republic of China
Changzhen Qu
State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing, Centre for Nano Energy Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Shaanxi Joint Laboratory of Graphene (NPU), Xi’an 710072, People’s Republic of China
Jinbo Zhang
State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing, Centre for Nano Energy Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Shaanxi Joint Laboratory of Graphene (NPU), Xi’an 710072, People’s Republic of China
Yuqian Qiu
State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing, Centre for Nano Energy Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Shaanxi Joint Laboratory of Graphene (NPU), Xi’an 710072, People’s Republic of China
Rong Zhuang
State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing, Centre for Nano Energy Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Shaanxi Joint Laboratory of Graphene (NPU), Xi’an 710072, People’s Republic of China
Hongqiang Wang
State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing, Centre for Nano Energy Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Shaanxi Joint Laboratory of Graphene (NPU), Xi’an 710072, People’s Republic of China

Corresponding Author: Hongqiang Wang

hongqiang.wang@nwpu.edu.cn

Nano-Micro Letters, Vol. 14 (2022), Article Number: 91

Abstract

Establishing covalent heterointerfaces with face-to-face contact is promising for advanced energy storage, while challenge remains on how to inhibit the anisotropic growth of nucleated crystals on the matrix. Herein, face-to-face covalent bridging in-between the 2D-nanosheets/graphene heterostructure is constructed by intentionally prebonding of laser-manufactured amorphous and metastable nanoparticles on graphene, where the amorphous nanoparticles were designed via the competitive oxidation of Sn-O and Sn-S bonds, and metastable feature was employed to facilitate the formation of the C-S-Sn covalent bonding in-between the heterostructure. The face-to-face bridging of ultrathin SnS2 nanosheets on graphene enables the heterostructure huge covalent coupling area and high loading and thus renders unimpeded electron/ion transfer pathways and indestructible electrode structure, and impressive reversible capacity and rate capability for sodium-ion batteries, which rank among the top in records of the SnS2-based anodes. Present work thus provides an alternative of constructing heterostructures with planar interfaces for electrochemical energy storage and even beyond.


Highlights:


1 Face-to-face covalent bridging in-between 2D-nanosheets/graphene heterostructure was constructed by intentionally prebonding of laser-manufactured amorphous and metastable nanoparticles on graphene.
2 The consecutive bonding enables the robust anchoring of ultrathin SnS2 nanosheets on graphene with huge covalent coupling area as well as spontaneous charge transfer in-between the heterostructure.
3 Such laser-manufactured heterostructure is capable of guaranteeing high-flux electron/ion migration and structural integrity upon cycling, thus contributing to the unprecedented Na-storage capability.

Keywords

Laser-manufacturing Metastable Interfacial engineering Covalent bridging Na-storage
Xu, Xiaosa, Fei Xu, Xiuhai Zhang, Changzhen Qu, Jinbo Zhang, Yuqian Qiu, Rong Zhuang, and Hongqiang Wang. 2022. “Laser-Derived Interfacial Confinement Enables Planar Growth of 2D SnS2 on Graphene for High-Flux Electron/Ion Bridging in Sodium Storage”. Nano-Micro Letters 14 (April):91. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-022-00829-1.
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