Rational Design of Multinary Metal Chalcogenide BiSbTe Nanocrystals for Efficient Potassium Storage.

Adv Mater

Institutes of Physical Science and Information Technology, Leibniz Joint Research Center of Materials Sciences, Engineering Laboratory of High-Performance Waterborne Polymer Materials of Anhui Province, Key Laboratory of Structure and Functional Regulation of Hybrid Material (Ministry of Education), Anhui University, Hefei, 230601, China.

Published: June 2024

Multinary metal chalcogenides hold considerable promise for high-energy potassium storage due to their numerous redox reactions. However, challenges arise from issues such as volume expansion and sluggish kinetics. Here, a design featuring a layered ternary BiSbTe anchored on graphene layers as a composite anode, where Bi atoms act as a lattice softening agent on Sb, is presented. Benefiting from the lattice arrangement in BiSbTe and structure, BiSbTe/graphene exhibits a mitigated expansion of 28% during the potassiation/depotassiation process and demonstrates facile K ion transfer kinetics, enabling long-term durability of 500 cycles at various high rates. Operando synchrotron diffraction patterns and spectroscopies including in situ Raman, ex situ adsorption, and X-ray photoelectron reveal multiple conversion and alloying/dealloying reactions for potassium storage at the atomic level. In addition, both theoretical calculations and electrochemical examinations elucidate the K migration pathways and indicate a reduction in energy barriers within BiSbTe/graphene, thereby suggesting enhanced diffusion kinetics for K. These findings provide insight in the design of durable high-energy multinary tellurides for potassium storage.

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