Study on the effects of carbon coating on lithium-storage kinetics for soft carbon

Carbon-coating is a simple and practical method to improve the electrochemical performance of soft carbon anode for fast-charging lithium-ion battery,e.g.,reducing the loss of active lithium during the formation of the solid electrolyte interface(SEI)film,and thereby improving the initial coulombic efficiency.However,the systematic study of relationships between carbon-coating layer properties and electrochemical performances is still lacking.Therefore,two soft carbon materials with different carbon-coating layers were used as model materials,which were prepared by vapor-phase method and solid-phase method,respectively.SEM,TEM,XRD and Raman were conducted to characterize the structural evolution of the soft carbon in the coating process.CV,GCPL,EIS and GITT were conducted to analyze the electrochemical performance of carbon-coating soft carbon.This work provides a good guidance for the development of fast-charging soft carbon material.