1.School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,Yancheng Institute of Technology,Yancheng,China;2.College of Materials Science and Technology, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Materials and Technologies for Energy Conversion,Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics,Nanjing,China
Abstract:
Biomass-derived carbon (BMC) materials have attracted much attention due to their high performance and properties of abundant source. Herein, biomass carbon sheets (BMCS) from wheat straws had been successfully synthesized via a facile high temperature carbonization and expansion processes. The morphology of BMCS keeps the natural honeycomb-like shape of the cross section and the hollow tubular array structure of the vertical section with rich pores, which provides low-resistant ion channels to support fast diffusion. The (002) crystal plane reveals that the intercalation distance of carbon sheets is 0.383 nm larger than that graphite (0.335 nm), which benefits the larger sodium ion de/intercalation. By comparing different carbonization temperatures, wheat straws carbonized at 1200 °C (BMCS-1200) with well graphite microcrystallites show more excellent sodium ion storage performance than that of 900 °C (BMC-900). BMCS-1200 shows a stable reversible capacity of 221 mAh g?1 after 200 cycles at 0.05 A g?1, while BMC-900 is 162 mAh g?1 after 100 cycles. And it also exhibits better rate capability (220, 109 mAh g?1) than that of BMC-900 (125, 77 mAh g?1) at 0.2 and 1 A g?1, respectively. Finally, it delivers 89 mAh g?1 stable capacity after 1400 cycles at 1 A g?1 to prove its excellent long-term cycling stability.
Graphical abstract High temperature carbon sheets with well graphite microcrystallites synthesized from wheat straw forexcellent sodium ion storage performance
