Article Title

MoS₂ as a long-life host material for potassium ion intercalation

Authors

Xiaodi Ren, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, 151 W Woodruff Ave, Columbus, OH 43210, USA Present address: College of Chemical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
Qiang Zhao, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, 151 W Woodruff Ave, Columbus, OH 43210, USA Present address: College of Chemical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
William D. McCulloch, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, 151 W Woodruff Ave, Columbus, OH 43210, USA Present address: College of Chemical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China
Yiying Wu, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, 151 W Woodruff Ave, Columbus, OH 43210, USA Present address: College of Chemical Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China

Keywords

potassium ion intercalation, potassium battery, MoS2, phase evolution, potassium ion diffusion

Abstract

ABSTRACT Electrochemical potassium ion intercalation into two-dimensional layered MoS2 was studied for the first time for potential applications in the anode in potassium-based batteries. X-ray diffraction analysis indicated that an intercalated potassium compound, hexagonal K0.4MoS2, formed during the intercalation process. Despite the size of K+, MoS2 was a long-life host for repetitive potassium ion intercalation and de-intercalation with a capacity retention of 97.5% after 200 cycles. The diffusion coefficient of the K+ ions in KxMoS2 was calculated based on the Randles–Sevcik equation. A higher K+ intercalation ratio not only encountered a much slower K+ diffusion rate in MoS2, but also induced MoS2 reduction. This study shows that metal dichalcogenides are promising potassium anode materials for emerging K-ion, K-O2, and K-S batteries.

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.1007/s12274-016-1419-9

Publisher

Tsinghua University Press

Recommended Citation

Xiaodi Ren,Qiang Zhao,William D. McCulloch,Yiying Wu, MoS2 as a long-life host material for potassium ion intercalation. NanoRes.2017, 10(4): 1313–1321