Affinity-engineered carbon nanofibers as a scaffold for Na metal anodes
Alessandro Susca, Jiapeng Liu, Jiang Cui, Nauman Mubarak, Junxiong Wu, Muhammad Ihsan‐Ul‐Haq, Francesco Ciucci, Jang‐Kyo Kim
Abstract
A scalable scaffold made of carbon nanofibers modified with embedded ZnO nanoparticles as facile nucleation sites for stable plating and stripping of Na is developed, leading to much ameliorated cyclic stability at high current densities.
Topics & Concepts
ScaffoldNucleationNanofiberMaterials scienceAnodeCarbon nanofiberStripping (fiber)Plating (geology)Chemical engineeringMetalNanoparticleNanotechnologyCarbon fibersComposite materialChemistryCarbon nanotubeMetallurgyBiomedical engineeringElectrodeOrganic chemistryGeophysicsEngineeringComposite numberPhysical chemistryGeologyMedicineAdvancements in Battery MaterialsAdvanced Battery Materials and TechnologiesAdvanced Battery Technologies Research