Chemically
Crushed Wood Cellulose Fiber towards High-Performance Sodium-Ion Batteries
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Abstract
Carbon
materials have attracted great interest as an anode for sodium-ion
batteries (SIBs) due to their high performance and low cost. Here,
we studied natural wood fiber derived hard carbon anodes for SIBs
considering the abundance and low cost of wood. We discovered that
a thermal carbonization of wood fiber led to a porous carbon with
a high specific surface area of 586 m<sup>2</sup> g<sup>–1</sup>, while a pretreatment with 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine-1-oxyl
(TEMPO) could effectively decrease it to 126 m<sup>2</sup> g<sup>–1</sup>. When evaluating them as anodes for SIBs, we observed that the low
surface area carbon resulted in a high initial Coulombic efficiency
of 72% compared to 25% of the high surface area carbon. More importantly,
the low surface area carbon exhibits an excellent cycling stability
that a desodiation capacity of 196 mAh g<sup>–1</sup> can be
delivered over 200 cycles at a current density of 100 mA g<sup>–1</sup>, indicating a promising anode for low-cost SIBs