Abstract Nowadays, renewable biomass-wastes are considered as one of the green precursors for developing multifunctional nanomaterials. Herein, we successfully developed a zinc sulfide (ZnS) doped chicken feather carbon (ZnS-CFC) composite using bio-waste of chicken feathers (CFs) as the natural sulfur and carbon precursor via simple two-steps approach. Under a hydrothermal condition, Zn precursor in situ reacts with the CFs to form a ZnS doped hydrothermally treated feathers (ZnS-HTF) hybrid, and further pyrolysis yields a ZnS-CFC composite. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) revealed that ZnS nanoparticles are existing in a stable sub 10 nm size within the carbon matrix without any capping agents. As–prepared ZnS-CFC composite was utilized as an anode material for the Li-ion battery and achieved a reversible capacity of 788 mAh g−1 after 150 cycles at 100 mA g−1 with a good rate performance. Interestingly, the present work provides an eco-friendly way of developing metal sulfide-carbon composites that have the potential for various practical applications.

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鸡毛作为开发用于锂离子电池负极材料的硫化锌/碳复合材料的内在来源

摘要 如今，可再生生物质废弃物被认为是开发多功能纳米材料的绿色前体之一。在此，我们通过简单的两步方法成功地开发了一种硫化锌 (ZnS) 掺杂的鸡毛碳 (ZnS-CFC) 复合材料，该复合材料使用鸡毛 (CFs) 的生物废料作为天然硫和碳的前体。在水热条件下，Zn 前驱体与 CFs 原位反应形成 ZnS 掺杂的水热处理羽毛 (ZnS-HTF) 混合物，并进一步热解产生 ZnS-CFC 复合材料。透射电子显微镜 (TEM) 显示 ZnS 纳米颗粒以稳定的亚 10 nm 尺寸存在于碳基质中，没有任何封端剂。制备的 ZnS-CFC 复合材料用作锂离子电池的负极材料，在 100 mA g-1 下循环 150 次后实现了 788 mAh g-1 的可逆容量，并具有良好的倍率性能。有趣的是，目前的工作提供了一种开发具有各种实际应用潜力的金属硫化物-碳复合材料的环保方法。