NanoEnergy - Carbon-based spherical nanocomposites for electrochemical energy storage

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Rüdiger Klingeler
• Subject Area: Synthesis and Properties of Functional Materials ; Experimental Condensed Matter Physics ; Physical Chemistry of Solids and Surfaces, Material Characterisation
• Term: from 2017 to 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 379644293

• Final Report Year: 2023

Final Report Abstract

In the NanoEnergy project we developed and studied new carbon-based hybrid nanomaterials in which in particular conversion materials with high potential capacity for energy storage have been investigated. We exploited nanoscaling and carbon-networks in which active material is embedded to accommodate strain and to reduce kinetic limitations of the macroscopic counterparts of electrode materials. With our Polish partner team, we investigated in a series of manuscript various functionalised hollow carbon spheres (HCS), among them the remarkable example of ultra-small Fe3O4 nanoparticles uniformly decorated on HCS. This material displays excellent electrochemical cycling performance that exceeds the theoretical bulk capacity of Fe3O4 by far and shows a reversible capacity 1050 mAh/g in cycle 250. This outstanding electrochemical performance can be traced back to the formation and decomposition of a capacitative surface layer during dis/charging. A further important result is the usage of polystyrene waste to produce porous carbon flakes which have been applied as supercapacitors. In addition, both our team as well as further collaboration partners produced and investigated electrode materials such as, a variety hierarchically structured V2O3/C, α- and h-MoO3, ZnO/C, MoO2/C, TiO2/C, WOx/C, and WS2/C nanocomposites. In addition, MXenebased hybrid materials such as Ti3C2, Nb2C, V2C and their composites have been prepared by a selective etching-based process and yielded very good cycling stabilities.

Publications

• Microwave-assisted hydrothermal synthesis and electrochemical studies of α- and h-MoO3. Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry, 22(12), 3651-3661.
  Zakharova, Galina S.; Schmidt, Christina; Ottmann, Alexander; Mijowska, Ewa & Klingeler, Rüdiger
  
• TiO2/C nanocomposites prepared by thermal annealing of titanium glycerolate as anode materials for lithium-ion batteries. Journal of Materials Science, 53(17), 12244-12253.
  Zakharova, G. S.; Ottmann, A.; Möller, L.; Andreikov, E. I.; Fattakhova, Z. A.; Puzyrev, I. S.; Zhu, Q.; Thauer, E. & Klingeler, R.
  
• From polystyrene waste to porous carbon flake and potential application in supercapacitor. Waste Management, 85, 333-340.
  Min, Jiakang; Zhang, Shuai; Li, Jiaxin; Klingeler, Rüdiger; Wen, Xin; Chen, Xuecheng; Zhao, Xi; Tang, Tao & Mijowska, Ewa
  
• Hydrothermal microwave-assisted synthesis of Li3VO4 as an anode for lithium-ion battery. Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry, 23(7), 2205-2212.
  Zakharova, G. S.; Thauer, E.; Wegener, S. A.; Nölke, J.-H.; Zhu, Q. & Klingeler, R.
  
• Ultrathin NiO confined within hollow carbon sphere for efficient electrochemical energy storage. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 797, 702-709.
  Shi, Xiaoze; Zhang, Shuai; Chen, Xuecheng; Tang, Tao; Klingeler, Rüdiger & Mijowska, Ewa
  
• CoFe2O4-filled carbon nanotubes as anode material for lithium-ion batteries. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 834, 155018.
  Möller, Lucas; Thauer, Elisa; Ottmann, Alexander; Deeg, Lukas; Ghunaim, Rasha; Hampel, Silke & Klingeler, Rüdiger
  
• Filled Carbon Nanotubes as Anode Materials for Lithium-Ion Batteries. Molecules, 25(5), 1064.
  Thauer, Elisa; Ottmann, Alexander; Schneider, Philip; Möller, Lucas; Deeg, Lukas; Zeus, Rouven; Wilhelmi, Florian; Schlestein, Lucas; Neef, Christoph; Ghunaim, Rasha; Gellesch, Markus; Nowka, Christian; Scholz, Maik; Haft, Marcel; Wurmehl, Sabine; Wenelska, Karolina; Mijowska, Ewa; Kapoor, Aakanksha; Bajpai, Ashna ... & Klingeler, Rüdiger
  
• Hierarchically structured V2O3/C microspheres: Synthesis, characterization, and their electrochemical properties. Electrochimica Acta, 390, 138881.
  Thauer, E.; Zakharova, G.S.; Deeg, L.F.; Zhu, Q. & Klingeler, R.
  
• Hollow carbon spheres loaded with uniform dispersion of copper oxide nanoparticles for anode in lithium- ion batteries. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 853, 156700.
  Trukawka, Martyna; Wenelska, Karolina; Singer, Lennart; Klingeler, Rüdiger; Chen, Xuecheng & Mijowska, Ewa
  
• Mn3O4 encapsulated in hollow carbon spheres coated by graphene layer for enhanced magnetization and lithium-ion batteries performance. Energy, 217, 119399.
  Thauer, Elisa; Shi, Xiaoze; Zhang, Shuai; Chen, Xuecheng; Deeg, Lukas; Klingeler, Rüdiger; Wenelska, Karolina & Mijowska, Ewa
  
• MoO2/C composites prepared by tartaric acid and glucose-assisted sol-gel processes as anode materials for lithium-ion batteries. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 863, 158353.
  Zakharova, G.S.; Singer, L.; Fattakhova, Z.A.; Wegener, S.; Thauer, E.; Zhu, Q.; Shalaeva, E.V. & Klingeler, R.
  
• Novel synthesis and electrochemical investigations of ZnO/C composites for lithium-ion batteries. Journal of Materials Science, 56(23), 13227-13242.
  Thauer, E.; Zakharova, G. S.; Andreikov, E. I.; Adam, V.; Wegener, S. A.; Nölke, J. -H.; Singer, L.; Ottmann, A.; Asyuda, A.; Zharnikov, M.; Kiselkov, D. M.; Zhu, Q.; Puzyrev, I. S.; Podval’naya, N. V. & Klingeler, R.
  
• Sol-gel synthesis of Li3VO4/C composites as anode materials for lithium-ion batteries. Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 853, 157364.
  Thauer, E.; Zakharova, G.S.; Wegener, S.A.; Zhu, Q. & Klingeler, R.
  
• Synthesis, Optical, Magnetic and Thermodynamic Properties of Rocksalt Li1.3Nb0.3Mn0.4O2 Cathode Material for Li-Ion Batteries. Crystals, 11(7), 825.
  Kamel, Mohamed; Hanna, Abanoub R. N.; Krellner, Cornelius; Klingeler, Rüdiger; Abdellah, Mohamed; Abdel-Hafiez, Mahmoud; Hassen, Arafa; Khalil, Ahmed S. G.; Abdel-Baset, Tarob & Hassan, Abdelwahab
  
• V2O3/C composite fabricated by carboxylic acid-assisted sol–gel synthesis as anode material for lithium-ion batteries. Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology, 98(3), 549-558.
  Zakharova, G. S.; Thauer, E.; Enyashin, A. N.; Deeg, L. F.; Zhu, Q. & Klingeler, R.
  
• A facile preparation method and proof of cycle-stability of carbon-coated metal oxide and disulfide battery materials. Electrochimica Acta, 459, 142540.
  Guo, Peng; Singer, Lennart; Zhao, Zhiyong; Kukułka, Wojciech; Sebastian, Finn; Mijowska, Ewa; Zharnikov, Michael; Comba, Peter & Klingeler, Rüdiger
  
• Lithium-rich antiperovskite (Li2Fe)SeO: A high-performance cathode material for lithium-ion batteries, Journal of Power Sources 558, 232547
  Mohamed, M.A.A.; Singer, L.; Hahn, H.; Djendjur, D.; Özkara, A.; Thauer, E.; Gonzalez-Martinez, I.G.; Hantusch, M.; Büchner, B.; Hampel, S.; Klingeler, R. & Gräßler, N.
  
• On the rising extra storage capacity of ultra-small Fe3O4 particles functionalized with HCS and their potential as high-performance anode material for electrochemical energy storage. Electrochimica Acta 448, 142155
  Singer, Lennart; Kukułka, Wojciech; Thauer, Elisa; Gräßler, Nico; Asyuda, Andika; Zharnikov, Michael; Mijowska, Ewa & Klingeler, Rüdiger
  
• Synthetically encapsulated & self-organized transition metal oxide nano-structures inside carbon nanotubes as robust: Li-ion battery anode materials. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 56(42), 425504.
  Kapoor, Aakanksha; Patrike, Apurva L.; Singh, Nitesh; Thauer, Elisa; Ottmann, Alexander; Klingeler, Rüdiger; Ogale, Satishchandra & Bajpai, Ashna