Journal of Materials Chemistry A, volume 7, issue 48, pages 27567-27575

Unveiling the role of hydrothermal carbon dots as anodes in sodium-ion batteries with ultrahigh initial coulombic efficiency

Fei Xie ^{1, 2}

Zhen Xu ¹

A. C. S. Jensen ^{1, 2}

Feixiang Ding ³

Heather-Jane Au ¹

Jingyu Feng ¹

Hui Luo ^{1, 4}

Mo Qiao ¹

Zhenyu Guo ¹

Yaxiang Lu ³

Alan J. Drew ²

Yongsheng Hu ³

Magda Titirici ¹

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Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK |

School of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK |

Beijing Key Laboratory for New Energy Materials and Devices, Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R. China |

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School of engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK |

Publication type: Journal Article

Publication date: 2019-11-15

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Journal: Journal of Materials Chemistry A

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ISSN: 20507488, 20507496, 09599428, 13645501

DOI: 10.1039/C9TA11369J

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Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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We report the discovery of usually ignored hydrothermal carbon dots as anodes for sodium-ion batteries with ultrahigh initial coulombic efficiency.

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Xie F. et al. Unveiling the role of hydrothermal carbon dots as anodes in sodium-ion batteries with ultrahigh initial coulombic efficiency // Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 2019. Vol. 7. No. 48. pp. 27567-27575.

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Xie F., Xu Z., Jensen A. C. S., Ding F., Au H., Feng J., Luo H., Qiao M., Guo Z., Lu Y., Drew A. J., Hu Y., Titirici M. Unveiling the role of hydrothermal carbon dots as anodes in sodium-ion batteries with ultrahigh initial coulombic efficiency // Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 2019. Vol. 7. No. 48. pp. 27567-27575.

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TY - JOUR

DO - 10.1039/C9TA11369J

UR - https://doi.org/10.1039/C9TA11369J

TI - Unveiling the role of hydrothermal carbon dots as anodes in sodium-ion batteries with ultrahigh initial coulombic efficiency

T2 - Journal of Materials Chemistry A

AU - Xie, Fei

AU - Xu, Zhen

AU - Jensen, A. C. S.

AU - Qiao, Mo

AU - Titirici, Magda

AU - Ding, Feixiang

AU - Au, Heather-Jane

AU - Feng, Jingyu

AU - Luo, Hui

AU - Guo, Zhenyu

AU - Lu, Yaxiang

AU - Drew, Alan J.

AU - Hu, Yongsheng

PY - 2019

DA - 2019/11/15 00:00:00

PB - Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

SP - 27567-27575

IS - 48

VL - 7

SN - 2050-7488

SN - 2050-7496

SN - 0959-9428

SN - 1364-5501

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@article{2019_Xie,

author = {Fei Xie and Zhen Xu and A. C. S. Jensen and Mo Qiao and Magda Titirici and Feixiang Ding and Heather-Jane Au and Jingyu Feng and Hui Luo and Zhenyu Guo and Yaxiang Lu and Alan J. Drew and Yongsheng Hu},

title = {Unveiling the role of hydrothermal carbon dots as anodes in sodium-ion batteries with ultrahigh initial coulombic efficiency},

journal = {Journal of Materials Chemistry A},

year = {2019},

volume = {7},

publisher = {Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)},

month = {nov},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1039/C9TA11369J},

number = {48},

pages = {27567--27575},

doi = {10.1039/C9TA11369J}

}

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Xie, Fei, et al. “Unveiling the role of hydrothermal carbon dots as anodes in sodium-ion batteries with ultrahigh initial coulombic efficiency.” Journal of Materials Chemistry A, vol. 7, no. 48, Nov. 2019, pp. 27567-27575. https://doi.org/10.1039/C9TA11369J.

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