High‐Quality Graphene Microflower Design for High‐Performance Li–S and Al‐Ion Batteries |
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Authors: | Hao Chen Chen Chen Yingjun Liu Xiaoli Zhao Nimrodh Ananth Bingna Zheng Li Peng Tieqi Huang Weiwei Gao Chao Gao |
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Affiliation: | MOE Key Laboratory of Macromolecular Synthesis and Functionalization, Key Laboratory of Adsorption and Separation Materials and Technologies of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P. R. China |
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Abstract: | Poor quality and insufficient productivity are two main obstacles for the practical application of graphene in electrochemical energy storage. Here, high‐quality crumpled graphene microflower (GmF) for high‐performance electrodes is designed. The GmF possesses four advantages simultaneously: highly crystallized defect‐free graphene layers, low stacking degree, sub‐millimeter continuous surface, and large productivity with low cost. When utilized as carbon host for sulfur cathode, the GmF‐sulfur hybrid delivers decent areal capacities of 5.2 mAh cm?2 at 0.1 C and 3.8 mAh cm?2 at 0.5 C. When utilized as cathode of Al‐ion battery, the GmF affords a high capacity of 100 mAh g?1 with 100% capacity retention after 5000 cycles and excellent rate capability from 0.1 to 20 A g?1. This facile and large‐scale producible GmF represents a meaningful high‐quality graphene powder for practical energy storage technology. Meanwhile, this unique high‐quality graphene design provides an effective route to improve electrochemical properties of graphene‐based electrodes. |
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Keywords: | Al‐ion batteries defect‐free high‐quality graphene microflowers large‐scale production lithium– sulfur batteries |
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