THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURED PLANT-FIBER CARBON MATERIAL FOR USE AS ANODE MATERIAL FOR SODIUM-ION BATTERY AND LITHIUM-ION BATTERY, AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF

• US 20190312277A1
• Filed: 11/27/2017
• Published: 10/10/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 01/04/2017
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: South China University of Technology
• Original Assignee: South China University of Technology
• Inventors: YANG, Chenghao, XIONG, Jiawen, XIONG, Xunhui
• Application Number:
  US16/315,149
• Publication Number:
  US 20190312277A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/0525 Rocking-chair batteries, i.e. batteries with lithium insertion or intercalation in both electrodes; Lithium-ion batteries
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/054 Accumulators with insertion or intercalation of metals other than lithium, e.g. with magnesium or aluminium
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 2004/027 Negative electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 4/583 Carbonaceous material, e.g. graphite-intercalation compounds or CFx
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 4/587 for inserting or intercalating light metals
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries

Abstract

The present invention provides a three-dimensional structured plant-fiber carbon material for use as an anode material for a sodium-ion battery and a lithium-ion battery, and a preparation method thereof. The preparation method of the three-dimensional structured plant-fiber carbon material comprises: soaking the plant fiber into a pore forming agent, a nitrate solution, wetting the fiber at a constant temperature, after drying, calcining and grinding the fiber at a protective atmosphere, washing the resulted material with hydrochloric acid and deionized water and drying the material. The three-dimensional structured plant-fiber carbon material has a three-dimensional porous thin sheet-like and long tunnel structure, wherein the thin sheet has a thickness of 5 to 30 nm. The three-dimensional structured plant-fiber carbon material constructs an excellent conductive network, which, in combination with the porous and long tunnel structure, facilitates rapid diffusion of ions of the electrode material, and improves utilization rate of the material.

Claims

1. A three-dimensional structured plant-fiber carbon material for use as an anode material for a sodium-ion battery and a lithium-ion battery, comprising a microstructure, wherein the microstructure is a three-dimensional porous sheet-like structure and a long tunnel structure, a material of the sheet-like structure having a thickness of 5 to 30 nm.

2. A preparation method of the three-dimensional structured plant-fiber carbon material for use as the anode material for the sodium-ion battery and the lithium-ion battery according to claim 1, comprising the following steps:

(1) sealing wetting a plant fiber material into a nitrate solution;

(2) after the sealing wetting, taking out the plant fiber material and drying the material;

(3) calcining the dried plant fiber material in a heat preservation manner under a protective atmosphere;

(4) taking out the carbonized plant fiber material and crushing and grinding the plant fiber material into a powdered plant fiber material; and

(5) sequentially washing with a hydrochloric acid having a concentration of 0.5 to 3 mol/L and deionized water respectively, and drying the powdered plant fiber material to obtain the dried, black powder-like three-dimensional structured plant-fiber carbon material.

3. The preparation method of the three-dimensional structured plant-fiber carbon material for use as the anode material for the sodium-ion battery and the lithium-ion battery according to claim 2, wherein in the step (1), the plant fiber material comprises seed fiber series, bast fiber series, leaf fiber series, fruit fiber series or plant waste fiber series;

the seed fiber series comprise cotton fibers or kapok fibers, the bast fiber series comprise flax or bamboo fibers, the leaf fiber series comprise sisal, pineapple fibers or abacas, the fruit fiber series comprise coconut fibers or pineapple pulp fibers, and the plant waste fiber series comprise coffee residues or used disposable bamboo chopsticks.

4. The preparation method of the three-dimensional structured plant-fiber carbon material for use as the anode material for the sodium-ion battery and the lithium-ion battery according to claim 2, wherein in the step (1), a nitrate of the nitrate solution is at least one of magnesium nitrate, sodium nitrate and potassium nitrate, and the nitrate solution has a concentration of 0.1 to 10 mol/L.

5. The preparation method of the three-dimensional structured plant-fiber carbon material for use as the anode material for the sodium-ion battery and the lithium-ion battery according to claim 2, wherein in the step (1), the sealing wetting is carried out at a temperature of 60 to 100°

C., and a duration of the sealing wetting is 4 to 24 hours.

6. The preparation method of the three-dimensional structured plant-fiber carbon material for use as the anode material for the sodium-ion battery and the lithium-ion battery according to claim 2, wherein in the step (3), the protective atmosphere is an inert atmosphere, a reduction atmosphere or a mixture atmosphere;

the inert atmosphere being nitrogen or argon, the reduction atmosphere being hydrogen, and the mixture atmosphere being a mixture of nitrogen and hydrogen or a mixture of argon and hydrogen, wherein a volume ratio of the hydrogen is 0% to 10%.

7. The preparation method of the three-dimensional structured plant-fiber carbon material for use as the anode material for the sodium-ion battery and the lithium-ion battery according to claim 2, wherein in the step (3), a heating rate of the calcining in the heat preservation manner is 5 to 10°

C./min, a temperature of the calcining in the heat preservation manner is 600 to 900°

C., and a duration of the calcining in the heat preservation manner is 1 to 6 hours.

8. The preparation method of the three-dimensional structured plant-fiber carbon material for use as the anode material for the sodium-ion battery and the lithium-ion battery according to claim 2, wherein in the step (2) and the step (5), the drying is carried out in an oven at a temperature of 60 to 100°

C. for 6 to 24 hours.