Inorganic Chemicals Industry ›› 2022, Vol. 54 ›› Issue (4): 88-93.doi: 10.19964/j.issn.1006-4990.2021-0591

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Nanoconfined encapsulation of iron-germanium alloy anode and its lithium ion storage performance

LI Fangkun(),WANG Xinyi,XU Xijun,WU Yiwen,YANG Yan,LIU Jun()   

  1. Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Storage Materials,School of Materials Science and Engineering,South China University of Technology,Guangzhou 510641,China
  • Received:2021-09-29 Online:2022-04-10 Published:2022-04-18
  • Contact: LIU Jun E-mail:1827518710@qq.com;msjliu@scut.edu.cn

Abstract:

Commercial graphite anodes for lithium-ion batteries can’t meet the increasing demand for high energy density due to their low theoretical specific capacity(372 mA·h/g ).The Ge anode material is considered a promising material due to its higher theoretical specific capacity (about 1 600 mA·h/g).Unfortunately,the Ge anode material has a huge volume change during the charge and discharge process,exhibiting poor electrochemical performance.Therefore,a unique Ge-based composite anode was rationally designed and prepared.First,the organic-inorganic hybrid Ge-Fe-Ox/EDA nanowires were prepared by solvothermal method and then coated with dopamine.Subsequently,FeGe/FeGe2 alloy phase was formed in situ and carbon coating was formed on the surface by high-temperature roasting,so as to prepare the encapsulated Ge/FeGe/FeGe2@C nanowire irongermanium alloy anode.The unique structure effectively improved the conductivity of the Ge-based anode material and suppressed the volume change,so it exhibited excellent rate performance(the discharge capacity was 450 mA·h/g at the current density of 5 A/g) and excellent long cycle stability(achieving a high discharge capacity of 547 mA·h/g at 1 A/g after 400 cycles).

Key words: lithium-ion batteries, Ge-based anode, nanowires, coating, nanoconfined encapsulation

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