MoS2‐Coupled Carbon Nanosheets Encapsulated on Sodium Titanate Nanowires as Super‐Durable Anode Material for Sodium‐Ion Batteries

Abstract

Abstract There is an ever‐increasing demand for rechargeable batteries with fast charging, long cycling, high safety, and low cost in new energy storage systems. Herein, a heterogeneous architecture composed of MoS2‐coupled carbon nanosheets encapsulated on sodium titanate nanowires is developed and demonstrated as an advanced anode for sodium‐ion batteries (SIBs). Owing to the synergistic effects of ultrastable substrate of 1D sodium titanate (NTO) nanowires, high‐capacity promoter of 2D MoS2 nanosheets as well as the 2D conductive carbon matrix, the resulting 1D/2D–2D hybrid demonstrates excellent high‐rate capacity and super‐durable cyclability, delivering a stable capacity of up to 425.5 mAh g−1 at 200 mA g−1. Even at an ultrafast charging/discharging process within 80 s, the capacity can be maintained at 201 mAh g−1 after 16 000 cycles with only 0.0012% capacity loss per cycle, one of the best high‐rate capacities and cyclabilities for NTO‐based hybrid composites. The present work highlights the designing protocol of hierarchical nanoarchitectures with stable substrate and high‐capacity electrodes for next‐generation energy storage applications.

Keywords

• core–shell
• MoS2 nanosheets
• sodium titanate nanowires
• sodium‐ion batteries
• strong‐coupled carbon