Water-Induced Growth of High-Oriented Mesoporous Graphitic Carbon Nanospring for Fast K-ion Adsorption/Intercalation Storage.

Here, high-oriented mesoporous graphitic carbon nanospring (OGCS) with graphitic layers that are perpendicular to the axis is prepared by hydrothermal treatment of epoxy resin at 500 ℃ and followed by annealing at 1400 ℃. It is demonstrated that the water plays an important role in not only forming graphitic carbon nanospring with high [002] orientation and a large amount of active edge-plane sites, but also contributing to the generation of mesoporous structure, which both facilitate fast K-ion adsorption and diffusion. On basis of in situ and ex situ measurements, it is confirmed that OGCS undergoes K-adsorption in mesopores at first and then K-intercalation in graphite layer to form KC 8 with low voltage. Besides, the spring-like nanostructure can expand one-dimensionally along the axial direction to accommodate volume variation. As a result, the synthesized OGCS electrode shows a much better K-storage performance than that of unoriented graphitic carbon, such as a stable capacity of 361.7 mA h g -1 at 50 mA g -1 over 100 cycles, good rate capability with capacity of 170 mA h g -1 even at 2000 mA g -1 , and long-term cycling stability over 10000 cycles.

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