Selenizing CoMoO4 nanoparticles within electrospun carbon nanofibers towards enhanced sodium storage performance

Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
Fang LiHongkang Wang

Abstract

Transition metal oxides/selenides as anodes for sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) suffer from the insufficient conductivity and large volumetric expansion, which leads to the poor electrochemical performance. To address these issues, we herein demonstrate a facile selenization method to enhance the sodium storage capability of CoMoO4 nanoparticles which are encapsulated into the electrospun carbon nanofibers (CMO@carbon for short). The partially and fully selenized CoMoO4 within carbon nanofibers (denote as CMOS@carbon and CMS@carbon, respectively) can be readily obtained by controlling the annealing temperature (at 400 and 600 °C, correspondingly). When examined as anode materials for SIBs, the CMOS@carbon nanofibers display an outstanding electrochemical performance with a higher reversible capacity of 396 mA h g-1 after 200 cycles at 0.2 A g-1 and a high-rate capacity of 365 mA h g-1 at 2 A g-1, as compared with the CMO@carbon and CMS@carbon counterparts. The enhanced sodium storage performance of the CMOS@carbon can be owing to the partial selenization of the CoMoO4 nanoparticles which are rooted into the porous electrospun carbon nanofibers, thus endowing them with superior ionic/electronic charge transfer efficiencies and a cus...Continue Reading

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