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Title: A carboxylate- and pyridine-based organic anode material for K-ion batteries
Developing high-capacity, stable, and sustainable K-ion batteries (KIBs) is an ongoing challenge due to the lack of high-performance and environmentally benign electrode materials. To address this challenge, organic electrode materials that are affordable, abundant, highly sustainable, highly tunable and flexible offer opportunities. Herein, we report a novel N-containing carboxylate salt, K 2 C 12 H 6 N 2 O 4 (K-DCA), with two bipyridine moieties and two carboxylate groups. The carboxylate- and pyridine-based active centers in K-DCA can reversibly react with four K-ions to provide a specific capacity of 163.3 mA h g −1 with a pair of redox plateaus centered at ∼0.8 V. When coupling with nitrogen-doped reduced graphene oxide (NrGO), the composite anode material, K-DCA-NrGO, demonstrates a high specific capacity of 225.25 mA h g −1 and increased capacity retention during long-term cycling. Additionally, the reaction kinetics and mechanism studies demonstrate that the composite exhibits low overpotentials, low interphase resistance, a partial pseudo-capacitance behavior, and stable chemical/morphological structures upon cycling, which contribute to the fast kinetics and long cycle life.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2154145
PAR ID:
10403714
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
New Journal of Chemistry
Volume:
46
Issue:
39
ISSN:
1144-0546
Page Range / eLocation ID:
18890 to 18898
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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