posted on 2021-08-25, 16:35authored byShunlong Zhang, Hangjun Ying, Pengfei Huang, Jianli Wang, Zhao Zhang, Zhihao Zhang, Wei-Qiang Han
Pillaring
technology has proven to be an effective strategy to
improve the electrochemical performance of MXene-based composites,
especially the rate performance due to the enlarged interlayer spacing.
Taking the larger radius of sodium ions into account, it is urgent
to develop pillared MXene-based composites for sodium-ion batteries
(SIBs). To fully deliver high rate performance of pillared MXenes
and high capacity of Sb in SIBs, in this work, we exquisitely decorate
ultrafine Sb particles onto flexible few-layered Ti3C2Tx (f-Ti3C2Tx)
nanosheets to fabricate Sb pillared Ti3C2Tx (Sb/p-Ti3C2Tx) composites
through facile electrostatic adsorption followed by the annealing
process. Benefiting from the enhanced kinetics properties by highly
conductive pillared f-Ti3C2Tx and
ultrafine Sb nanoparticles, the composites exhibit a reversible charge
capacity of 438.1 mAh g–1 at 50 mA g–1 and a high retention rate of 126.6 mAh g–1 at
2 A g–1. Furthermore, the strong interaction between
Sb and Ti3C2Tx via Ti–O–Sb
chemical bonding endows the composites with high structural stability,
leading to good cycling sustainability. More importantly, for the
first time, we succeed in integrating dual advantages of the few-layered
state of MXenes and pillaring technology in MXene-based composites
for SIBs. This work supplies an effective modification strategy to
conquer the drawbacks of Sb anodes and achieve exploitation of pillared
few-layered MXene composites in SIBs, promoting the commercial process
of MXenes in SIBs.