High-capacity anodes of lithium-ion batteries generally suffer from poor electrical conductivity, large volume variation, and low tap density caused by prepared nanostructures, which make it an obstacle to achieve both high-areal capacity and stable cycling performance for practical applications. Herein, micrometer-sized porous Fe2 N/C bulk is prepared to tackle the aforementioned issues, and thus realize both high-areal capacity and stable cycling performance at high mass loading. The porous structure in Fe2 N/C bulk is beneficial to alleviate the volumetric change. In addition, the N-doped carbon conducting networks with high electrical conductivity provide a fast charge transfer pathway. Meanwhile, the micrometer-sized Fe2 N/C bulk exhibits a higher tap density than that of commercial graphite powder (1.03 g cm-3 ), which facilitates the preparation of thinner electrode at high mass loadings. As a result, a high-areal capacity of above 4.2 mA h cm-2 at 0.45 mA cm-2 is obtained at a high mass loading of 7.0 mg cm-2 for LIBs, which still maintains at 2.59 mA h cm-2 after 200 cycles with a capacity retention of 98.8% at 0.89 mA cm-2 .
Keywords: high tap density; high-areal capacity; micrometer-sized Fe2N/C bulk; stable lithium storage.
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