Designing a highly conductive scaffold with unique function has great significance in elevating the stor-age properties of molybdenum sulfide(MoS_(2))for sodium-and potassium-ion batteries.Herein,we show that forming ...Designing a highly conductive scaffold with unique function has great significance in elevating the stor-age properties of molybdenum sulfide(MoS_(2))for sodium-and potassium-ion batteries.Herein,we show that forming a three-dimensional(3D)highly conductive dual backbone that consists of titanium nitride nanowires(TiN)coated on 3D carbon fiber(CF)could suppress the poor conductivity of MoS_(2).Theo-retical calculations predict that both TiN and CF boost the electronic conductivity,while the MoS_(2)will promote high ionic adsorption owing to the suitable adsorption energy.The as-prepared CF@TiN/MoS_(2),with mass loading up to 12.5 mg cm^(−2),achieves a high areal capacity of up to 5.40 mAh cm^(−2)under the current density of 0.6 mA cm^(−2)for sodium storage.The excellent performance of the hybrid can be attributed to buffer and conductivity enhancer features,allowing Na-ion to directly have contact with the CF@TiN/MoS_(2)hybrid.A series of electrochemical analyses including cyclic voltammetry and symmetric cell analyses affirm the significant improvement in transport kinetics.More importantly,the CF@TiN/MoS_(2)also achieves a high areal capacity of 3.29 mAh cm^(−2)under the current density of 0.3 mA cm^(−2)as anode material for potassium ion batteries(PIBs),demonstrating that the scaffold-regulated strategy is a feasible strategy to enhance the kinetics of MoS_(2)-based anodes for secondary-ion batteries and beyond.展开更多
基金This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.21875292)the Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation(No.2021JJ30087)the Hunan Joint International Laboratory of Advanced Materials and Technology for Clean Energy(No.2020CB1007).
文摘Designing a highly conductive scaffold with unique function has great significance in elevating the stor-age properties of molybdenum sulfide(MoS_(2))for sodium-and potassium-ion batteries.Herein,we show that forming a three-dimensional(3D)highly conductive dual backbone that consists of titanium nitride nanowires(TiN)coated on 3D carbon fiber(CF)could suppress the poor conductivity of MoS_(2).Theo-retical calculations predict that both TiN and CF boost the electronic conductivity,while the MoS_(2)will promote high ionic adsorption owing to the suitable adsorption energy.The as-prepared CF@TiN/MoS_(2),with mass loading up to 12.5 mg cm^(−2),achieves a high areal capacity of up to 5.40 mAh cm^(−2)under the current density of 0.6 mA cm^(−2)for sodium storage.The excellent performance of the hybrid can be attributed to buffer and conductivity enhancer features,allowing Na-ion to directly have contact with the CF@TiN/MoS_(2)hybrid.A series of electrochemical analyses including cyclic voltammetry and symmetric cell analyses affirm the significant improvement in transport kinetics.More importantly,the CF@TiN/MoS_(2)also achieves a high areal capacity of 3.29 mAh cm^(−2)under the current density of 0.3 mA cm^(−2)as anode material for potassium ion batteries(PIBs),demonstrating that the scaffold-regulated strategy is a feasible strategy to enhance the kinetics of MoS_(2)-based anodes for secondary-ion batteries and beyond.
