Nature Communications (Sep 2018)

Boosting potassium-ion batteries by few-layered composite anodes prepared via solution-triggered one-step shear exfoliation

  • Yajie Liu,
  • Zhixin Tai,
  • Jian Zhang,
  • Wei Kong Pang,
  • Qing Zhang,
  • Haifeng Feng,
  • Konstantin Konstantinov,
  • Zaiping Guo,
  • Hua Kun Liu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05786-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Developing high-performance potassium-ion batteries remains a challenge. Here, the authors show that few-layered Sb2S3/carbon composite anode synthesized via simple exfoliation minimizes the volume changes during (de)intercalation of K+ ions with boosted rate performance and cyclability.