Textured Asymmetric Membrane Electrode Assemblies of Piezoelectric Phosphorene and Ti3C2Tx MXene Heterostructures for Enhanced Electrochemical Stability and Kinetics in LIBs

Yihui Li; Juan Xie; Ruofei Wang; Shugang Min; Zewen Xu; Yangjian Ding; Pengcheng Su; Xingmin Zhang; Liyu Wei; Jing-Feng Li; Zhaoqiang Chu; Jingyu Sun; Cheng Huang

doi:10.1007/s40820-023-01265-5

Textured Asymmetric Membrane Electrode Assemblies of Piezoelectric Phosphorene and Ti₃C₂T_x MXene Heterostructures for Enhanced Electrochemical Stability and Kinetics in LIBs

Nanomicro Lett. 2024 Jan 8;16(1):79. doi: 10.1007/s40820-023-01265-5.

Authors

Yihui Li^#^{1

2}, Juan Xie^#³, Ruofei Wang⁴, Shugang Min⁴, Zewen Xu^{5

6}, Yangjian Ding^{1

2}, Pengcheng Su^{1

2}, Xingmin Zhang⁷, Liyu Wei⁸, Jing-Feng Li⁸, Zhaoqiang Chu⁴, Jingyu Sun¹, Cheng Huang^{9

10

11}

Affiliations

¹ Volta and DiPole Materials Labs, College of Energy, Soochow Institute for Energy and Materials InnovationS (SIEMIS), Key Laboratory of Advanced Carbon Materials and Wearable Energy Technologies of Jiangsu Province, Key Laboratory of Core Technology of High Specific Energy Battery and Key Materials for Petroleum and Chemical Industry, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215006, People's Republic of China.
² High Density Materials Technology Center for Flexible Hybrid Electronics, Suzhou Institute of Electronic Functional Materials Technology, Suzhou Industrial Technology Research Institute, Suzhou, 215151, People's Republic of China.
³ School of Materials Science and Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, 212013, People's Republic of China.
⁴ College of Underwater Acoustic Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, 150001, People's Republic of China.
⁵ Volta and DiPole Materials Labs, College of Energy, Soochow Institute for Energy and Materials InnovationS (SIEMIS), Key Laboratory of Advanced Carbon Materials and Wearable Energy Technologies of Jiangsu Province, Key Laboratory of Core Technology of High Specific Energy Battery and Key Materials for Petroleum and Chemical Industry, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215006, People's Republic of China. zwxu@suda.edu.cn.
⁶ High Density Materials Technology Center for Flexible Hybrid Electronics, Suzhou Institute of Electronic Functional Materials Technology, Suzhou Industrial Technology Research Institute, Suzhou, 215151, People's Republic of China. zwxu@suda.edu.cn.
⁷ Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 201204, People's Republic of China.
⁸ State Key Laboratory of New Ceramics and Fine Processing, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, People's Republic of China.
⁹ Volta and DiPole Materials Labs, College of Energy, Soochow Institute for Energy and Materials InnovationS (SIEMIS), Key Laboratory of Advanced Carbon Materials and Wearable Energy Technologies of Jiangsu Province, Key Laboratory of Core Technology of High Specific Energy Battery and Key Materials for Petroleum and Chemical Industry, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215006, People's Republic of China. chengh@suda.edu.cn.
¹⁰ High Density Materials Technology Center for Flexible Hybrid Electronics, Suzhou Institute of Electronic Functional Materials Technology, Suzhou Industrial Technology Research Institute, Suzhou, 215151, People's Republic of China. chengh@suda.edu.cn.
¹¹ Institute of Advanced Materials and Institute of Membrane Science and Technology, Jiangsu National Synergistic Innovation Center for Advanced Materials, Suzhou Laboratory and Nanjing Tech University, Nanjing, 211816, People's Republic of China. chengh@suda.edu.cn.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

Black phosphorus with a superior theoretical capacity (2596 mAh g^-1) and high conductivity is regarded as one of the powerful candidates for lithium-ion battery (LIB) anode materials, whereas the severe volume expansion and sluggish kinetics still impede its applications in LIBs. By contrast, the exfoliated two-dimensional phosphorene owns negligible volume variation, and its intrinsic piezoelectricity is considered to be beneficial to the Li-ion transfer kinetics, while its positive influence has not been discussed yet. Herein, a phosphorene/MXene heterostructure-textured nanopiezocomposite is proposed with even phosphorene distribution and enhanced piezo-electrochemical coupling as an applicable free-standing asymmetric membrane electrode beyond the skin effect for enhanced Li-ion storage. The experimental and simulation analysis reveals that the embedded phosphorene nanosheets not only provide abundant active sites for Li-ions, but also endow the nanocomposite with favorable piezoelectricity, thus promoting the Li-ion transfer kinetics by generating the piezoelectric field serving as an extra accelerator. By waltzing with the MXene framework, the optimized electrode exhibits enhanced kinetics and stability, achieving stable cycling performances for 1,000 cycles at 2 A g^-1, and delivering a high reversible capacity of 524 mAh g^-1 at - 20 ℃, indicating the positive influence of the structural merits of self-assembled nanopiezocomposites on promoting stability and kinetics.

Keywords: Lithium-ion storage; Membrane electrode assembly; Nanopiezocomposite; Phosphorene; Piezo-electrochemical coupling.