Soil as an inexhaustible and high-performance anode material for Li-ion batteries

Xiaofei Hu; Kai Zhang; Liang Cong; Fangyi Cheng; Jun Chen

doi:10.1039/c5cc06394a

Soil as an inexhaustible and high-performance anode material for Li-ion batteries

Chem Commun (Camb). 2015 Nov 11;51(87):15827-30. doi: 10.1039/c5cc06394a.

Authors

Xiaofei Hu¹, Kai Zhang¹, Liang Cong¹, Fangyi Cheng¹, Jun Chen²

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry (Ministry of Education), Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, People's Republic of China. chenabc@nankai.edu.cn.
² Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry (Ministry of Education), Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, People's Republic of China. chenabc@nankai.edu.cn and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, People's Republic of China.

PMID: 26372419
DOI: 10.1039/c5cc06394a

Abstract

Herein, we demonstrate that by a simple treatment of heating and ball-milling, soil is endowed with a 77.2% degree of defects and acts as a high-performance anode material for soil/Li half cells and 18650-type LiNi0.915Co0.075Al0.1O2 (NCA)/soil full batteries that displayed a high and stable capacity of 3200 mA h (corresponding to 176 W h kg(-1) and 522 W h L(-1)) in the 200th cycle at a high current of 4 A.