Antimony/Porous Biomass Carbon Nanocomposites as High-Capacity Anode Materials for Sodium-Ion Batteries

Xiaoli Zhang; Pengxin Li; Rui Zang; Shijian Wang; Ye Zhu; Cong Li; Guoxiu Wang

doi:10.1002/asia.201601398

Antimony/Porous Biomass Carbon Nanocomposites as High-Capacity Anode Materials for Sodium-Ion Batteries

Chem Asian J. 2017 Jan 3;12(1):116-121. doi: 10.1002/asia.201601398. Epub 2016 Nov 29.

Authors

Xiaoli Zhang¹, Pengxin Li¹, Rui Zang¹, Shijian Wang¹, Ye Zhu¹, Cong Li¹, Guoxiu Wang^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ College of Material Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, 210006, P.R. China.
² Centre of Clean Energy Technology, Faculty of Science, University of Technology, Sydney, NSW 2007, Australia.

PMID: 27813332
DOI: 10.1002/asia.201601398

Abstract

Antimony/porous biomass carbon nanocomposites have been prepared by a chemical reduction method and applied as anodes for sodium-ion batteries. The porous biomass carbon derived from a black fungus had a large Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) surface area of 2233 m² g^-1 in which antimony nanoparticles were uniformly distributed in the porous carbon. The as-prepared antimony/porous biomass carbon nanocomposites exhibited a high reversible sodium storage capacity of 567 mA h g^-1 at a current density of 100 mA g^-1 , extended cycling stability, and good rate capability.

Keywords: anodes; antimony; carbon; nanotechnology; sodium.