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N-doped carbon nanosheets as high-performance anodes for Li- and Na-ion batteries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 November 2019

Aswathy K. Radhakrishnan ,
Shantikumar Nair  and
Dhamodaran Santhanagopalan
Aswathy K. Radhakrishnan
Affiliation:
Centre for Nanosciences and Molecular Medicine, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi 682041, India
Shantikumar Nair
Affiliation:
Centre for Nanosciences and Molecular Medicine, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi 682041, India
Dhamodaran Santhanagopalan*
Affiliation:
Centre for Nanosciences and Molecular Medicine, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi 682041, India
*
a)Address all correspondence to this author. e-mail: dsgopalan20710@aims.amrita.edu
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Abstract

A scalable preparation of in situ N-doped disordered carbon nanosheets from reduced melamine formaldehyde resin is demonstrated. For the first time, nanosheets prepared by such a process have been tested as anodes for lithium ion and sodium ion batteries. Li-ion battery half-cell delivers a reversible capacity of about 500 mA h/g at a specific current of 100 mA/g, and also a capacity of 250 mA h/g at a specific current of 500 mA/g is retained after 600 cycles. For Na-ion batteries, a reasonable capacity of about 150 mA h/g is recorded at a specific current of 50 mA/g, and a capacity of 120 mA h/g at a specific current of 250 mA/g is retained after 350 cycles. The sloppy low-voltage profile obtained for both the lithium ion and sodium ion cells corresponds to the nanosheet anodes, being soft carbon-like, thereby demonstrating superior cycling stability and safety by avoiding metal plating and dendrite formation.

Keywords

energy storagecarbonizationnanostructuredopantsurface chemistry
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Invited Paper
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Journal of Materials Research , Volume 35 , Issue 1: Focus Section: Advances in Battery Technology: Material Innovations in Design and Fabrication , 14 January 2020 , pp. 12 - 19
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2019 

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