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Preparation of Graphene Liquid Cells for the Observation of Lithium-ion Battery Material

In this work, we introduce the preparation of graphene liquid cells (GLCs), encapsulating both electrode materials and organic liquid electrolytes between ...

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Facile synthesis of rationally designed nanostructured electrode materials with high reversible capacity is highly critical to meet ever-increasing demands for lithium-ion batteries. In this work, we employed defect engineering by incorporating metal organic framework (MOF) templates into one-dimensional nanostructures by simple electrospinning and subsequent calcination. The introduction of Co-based zeolite imidazole frameworks (ZIF-67) resulted in abundant oxygen vacancies, which induce not only more active sites for Li storage but also enhanced electrical conductivity. Moreover, abundant mesoporous sites are formed by the decomposition of ZIF-67, which are present both inside and outside the resultant SnO-CoO nanofibers (NFs). Attributed to the creation of vacancy sites along with the synergistic effects of SnO and CoO, SnO-CoO NFs exhibit an excellent reversible capacity for 300 cycles (1287 mA h g at a current density of 500 mA g) along with superior rate capabilities and improved initial Coulombic efficiency compared with pristine SnO NFs. This is an early report on utilizing MOF structures as the defect formation platform into one-dimensional nanostructures, which is expected to result in superior electrochemical performances required for advanced electrodes.

Feasible Defect Engineering by Employing Metal Organic Framework Templates into One-Dimensional Metal Oxides for Battery Applications.

A new type of chemiresistor, the impedance-transduced chemiresistor (ITCR), is described for the rapid analysis of glucose. The ITCR exploits porous, high surface area, fluorine-doped carbon nanofibers prepared by electrospinning of fluorinated polymer nanofibers followed by pyrolysis. These nanofibers are functionalized with a boronic acid receptor and stabilized by Nafion to form the ITCR channel for glucose detection. The recognition and binding of glucose by the ITCR is detected by measuring its electrical impedance at a single frequency. The analysis frequency is selected by measuring the signal-to-noise ( S/ N) for glucose detection across 5 orders of magnitude, evaluating both the imaginary and real components of the complex impedance. On the basis of this analysis, an optimal frequency of 13 kHz is selected for glucose detection, yielding an S/ N ratio of 60-100 for [glucose] = 5 mM using the change in the total impedance, Δ Z. The resulting ITCR glucose sensor shows a rapid analysis time (<8 s), low coefficient of variation for a series of sensors (<10%), an analysis range of 50 μM to 5 mM, and excellent specificity versus fructose, ascorbic acid, and uric acid. These metrics for the ITCR are obtained using a sample size as small as 5 μL.

An Impedance-Transduced Chemiresistor with a Porous Carbon Channel for Rapid, Nonenzymatic, Glucose Sensing.

Nanowires (NWs) synthesized via chemical vapor deposition (CVD) have demonstrated significant improvement in lithium storage performance along with their outstanding accommodation of large volume changes during the charge/discharge process. Nevertheless, NW electrodes have been confined to the research level due to the lack of scalability and severe side reactions by their high surface area. Here, we present nanoporous Ge nanofibers (NPGeNFs) having moderate nanoporosity via a combination of simple electrospinning and a low-energetic zincothermic reduction reaction. In contrast with the CVD-assisted NW growth, our method provides high tunability of macro/microscopic morphologies such as a porosity, length, and diameter of the nanoscale 1D structures. Significantly, the customized NPGeNFs showed a highly suppressed volume expansion of less than 15% (for electrodes) after full lithation and excellent durability with high lithium storage performance over 500 cycles. Our approach offers effective 1D nanostructuring with highly customized geometries and can be extended to other applications including optoelectronics, catalysis, and energy conversion.

Jun Young Cheong

Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Preparation of Graphene Liquid Cells for the Observation of Lithium-ion Battery Material

Jun Young Cheong

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Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Preparation of Graphene Liquid Cells for the Observation of Lithium-ion Battery Material

Department of Materials Science and Engineering