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Vol. 14 (2022)

A Novel Hybrid Point Defect of Oxygen Vacancy and Phosphorus Doping in TiO2 Anode for High-Performance Sodium Ion Capacitor

https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-022-00912-7
Daming Chen
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, People’s Republic of China
Youchun Wu
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, People’s Republic of China
Zhiquan Huang
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, People’s Republic of China
Jian Chen
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, People’s Republic of China

Corresponding Author: Jian Chen

j.chen@seu.edu.cn

Nano-Micro Letters, Vol. 14 (2022), Article Number: 156

Abstract

Although sodium ion capacitors (SICs) are considered as one of the most promising electrochemical energy storage devices (organic electrolyte batteries, aqueous batteries and supercapacitor, etc.) due to the combined merits of battery and capacitor, the slow reaction kinetics and low specific capacity of anode materials are the main challenges. Point defects including vacancies and heteroatoms doping have been widely used to improve the kinetics behavior and capacity of anode materials. However, the interaction between vacancies and heteroatoms doping have been seldomly investigated. In this study, a hybrid point defects (HPD) engineering has been proposed to synthesize TiO2 with both oxygen vacancies (OVs) and P-dopants (TiO2/C-HPD). In comparison with sole OVs or P-doping treatments, the synergistic effects of HPD on its electrical conductivity and sodium storage performance have been clarified through the density functional theory calculation and sodium storage characterization. As expected, the kinetics and electronic conductivity of TiO2/C-HPD3 are significantly improved, resulting in excellent rate performance and outstanding cycle stability. Moreover, the SICs assembled from TiO2/C-HPD3 anode and nitrogen-doped porous carbon cathode show outstanding power/energy density, ultra-long life with good capacity retention. This work provides a novel point defect engineering perspective for the development of high-performance SICs electrode materials.


Highlights:


1 A novel hybrid point defect design (HPD) with oxygen vacancies and P-dopant is proposed to solve the insufficient kinetic and low specific capacity problems of TiO2.
2 Through density functional theory calculation and sodium storage characterization, the synergistic effect of HPD is beneficial to improve the conductivity and sodium storage performance of TiO2.
3 The prepared sodium ion capacitors show outstanding power/energy density, ultra-long life and good capacity retention.

Keywords

Defect engineering P-dopants Oxygen vacancy Conductivity Sodium ion capacitors
Chen, Daming, Youchun Wu, Zhiquan Huang, and Jian Chen. 2022. “A Novel Hybrid Point Defect of Oxygen Vacancy and Phosphorus Doping in TiO2 Anode for High-Performance Sodium Ion Capacitor”. Nano-Micro Letters 14 (August):156. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-022-00912-7.
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