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Vol. 13 (2021)

All-Climate Aluminum-Ion Batteries Based on Binder-Free MOF-Derived FeS2@C/CNT Cathode

https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-021-00682-8
Yuxiang Hu
Nanomaterials Centre, School of Chemical Engineering and Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia
Hongjiao Huang
Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Electrochemical Energy Storage Technologies, College of Materials Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 211106, People’s Republic of China
Deshuang Yu
Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Electrochemical Energy Storage Technologies, College of Materials Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 211106, People’s Republic of China
Xinyi Wang
Nanomaterials Centre, School of Chemical Engineering and Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia
Linlin Li
Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Electrochemical Energy Storage Technologies, College of Materials Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 211106, People’s Republic of China
Han Hu
State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing, College of Chemical Engineering, University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, People’s Republic of China
Xiaobo Zhu
Nanomaterials Centre, School of Chemical Engineering and Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia
Shengjie Peng
Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Electrochemical Energy Storage Technologies, College of Materials Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 211106, People’s Republic of China
Lianzhou Wang
Nanomaterials Centre, School of Chemical Engineering and Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland 4072, Australia

Corresponding Author: Lianzhou Wang

l.wang@uq.edu.au

Nano-Micro Letters, Vol. 13 (2021), Article Number: 159

Abstract

Aluminum-ion batteries (AIBs) are promising next-generation batteries systems because of their features of low cost and abundant aluminum resource. However, the inferior rate capacity and poor all-climate performance, especially the decayed capacity under low temperature, are still critical challenges toward high-specific-capacity AIBs. Herein, we report a binder-free and freestanding metal–organic framework-derived FeS2@C/carbon nanotube (FeS2@C/CNT) as a novel all-climate cathode in AIBs working under a wide temperature window between −25 and 50 °C with exceptional flexibility. The resultant cathode not only drastically suppresses the side reaction and volumetric expansion with high capacity and long-term stability but also greatly enhances the kinetic process in AIBs with remarkable rate capacity (above 151 mAh g−1 at 2 A g−1) at room temperature. More importantly, to break the bottleneck of the inherently low capacity in graphitic material-based all-climate AIBs, the new hierarchical conductive composite FeS2@C/CNT highly promotes the all-climate performance and delivers as high as 117 mAh g−1 capacity even under −25 °C. The well-designed metal sulfide electrode with remarkable performance paves a new way toward all-climate and flexible AIBs.


Highlights:


1 A binder-free and freestanding all-climate cathode FeS2@C/CNT in aluminum-ion batteries working from −25 to 50 °C with exceptional flexibility, enhanced capacity retention (above 117 mAh g−1) and rate capacity even at a low temperature of −25 °C.
2 High rate capacity (above 151 mAh g−1 at 2 A g−1) and robust long-term stability (above 80 mAh g−1 after 2,000 cycles at 1 A g−1) at room temperature.
3 DFT simulation verifies that the well-designed structure restricts FeS2 pulverization and facilitates the kinetic process of active ion.

Keywords

Aluminum-ion battery All-climate battery Iron sulfide Binder-free High rate capacity
Hu, Yuxiang, Hongjiao Huang, Deshuang Yu, Xinyi Wang, Linlin Li, Han Hu, Xiaobo Zhu, Shengjie Peng, and Lianzhou Wang. 2021. “All-Climate Aluminum-Ion Batteries Based on Binder-Free MOF-Derived FeS2@C/CNT Cathode”. Nano-Micro Letters 13 (July):159. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-021-00682-8.
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