Citation: Jing Wang, Lei Yan, Binhua Liu, Qingjuan Ren, Linlin Fan, Zhiqiang Shi, Qingyin Zhang. A solvothermal pre-oxidation strategy converting pitch from soft carbon to hard carbon for enhanced sodium storage[J]. Chinese Chemical Letters, ;2023, 34(4): 107526. doi: 10.1016/j.cclet.2022.05.040 shu

A solvothermal pre-oxidation strategy converting pitch from soft carbon to hard carbon for enhanced sodium storage

Jing Wang ^{a, 1} ,
Lei Yan ^{a, 1} ,
Binhua Liu ^a ,
Qingjuan Ren ^a ,
Linlin Fan ^a ,
Zhiqiang Shi ^{a, *,} ,
Qingyin Zhang ^{b, *,}

a.
Tianjin Key Laboratory of Advanced Fibers and Energy Storage, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tiangong University, Tianjin 300387, China
b.
School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tiangong University, Tianjin 300387, China

shizhiqiang@tiangong.edu.cn

zhangqingyin@tiangong.edu.cn

Received Date: 14 April 2022
Accepted Date: 12 May 2022
Available Online: 16 May 2022

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Due to its low cost and easy availability, the pitch is considered a promising precursor for soft carbon anodes. However, pitch-derived soft carbon shows a high graphitization degree and small interlayer spacing, resulting in its much lower sodium storage performance than hard carbon. We propose a novel pre-oxidation strategy to introduce additional oxygen atoms into the low-cost soft carbon precursor pitch to fabricate a defect-rich and large-interlayer spacing hard carbon anode (HPP-1100). Compared with the direct pyrolysis of pitch carbon, the sodium storage capacity of HPP-1100 is significantly improved from 120.3 mAh/g to 306.7 mAh/g, with an excellent rate and cycling capability (116.5 mAh/g at 10 C). Moreover, when assorted with an O3-Na(NiFeMn)_1/3O₂ cathode, the full cell delivers a high reversible capacity of 274.0 mAh/g at 0.1 C with superb cycle life. This work provides a new solution for realizing the application of low-cost pitch anodes in Na-ion batteries.
- Soft carbon,
- Hard carbon,
- Solvothermal pre-oxidation,
- Na-ion battery,
- Pitch
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