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Vol. 10 No. 3 (2018)

Bi2Se3/C Nanocomposite as a New Sodium-Ion Battery Anode Material

https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-018-0201-9
Lixin Xie
Department of Physics and TcSUH, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, USA
Ze Yang
Department of Physics and TcSUH, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, USA
Jingying Sun
Department of Physics and TcSUH, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, USA
Haiqing Zhou
Department of Physics and TcSUH, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, USA
Xiaowei Chi
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering Program, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, USA
Hailong Chen
The Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
Andy X. Li
Clements High School, 4200 Elkins Dr, Sugar Land, TX 77479, USA
Yan Yao
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering Program, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, USA
Shuo Chen
Department of Physics and TcSUH, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, USA

Corresponding Author: Shuo Chen

schen34@uh.edu

Nano-Micro Letters, Vol. 10 No. 3 (2018), Article Number: 50

Abstract

Bi2Se3 was studied as a novel sodium-ion battery anode material because of its high theoretical capacity and high intrinsic conductivity. Integrated with carbon, Bi2Se3/C composite shows excellent cyclic performance and rate capability. For instance, the Bi2Se3/C anode delivers an initial capacity of 527 mAh g−1 at 0.1 A g−1 and maintains 89% of this capacity over 100 cycles. The phase change and sodium storage mechanism are also carefully investigated.


Highlights:


1 Bi2Se3 was investigated as a novel sodium-ion battery anode material.
2 Sodiation/desodiation mechanism of Bi2Se3 has been carefully investigated.
3 Bi2Se3/C electrode demonstrates high cycling stability.

Keywords

Bi2Se3 Sodium-ion battery High-energy ball milling Sodium storage mechanism
Xie, Lixin, Ze Yang, Jingying Sun, Haiqing Zhou, Xiaowei Chi, Hailong Chen, Andy X. Li, Yan Yao, and Shuo Chen. 2018. “Bi2Se3/C Nanocomposite As a New Sodium-Ion Battery Anode Material”. Nano-Micro Letters 10 (3):50. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-018-0201-9.
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