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A polymer-assisted strategy for hierarchical SnS@N-doped carbon microspheres with enhanced lithium storage performance

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Two-dimensional metal dichalcogenides show a promising potential in energy storage due to their high specific capacity. Different from the bulk SnS prepared by conventional solvothermal method, our strategy to prepare the three-dimensional (3D) hierarchical SnS@N-doped carbon (SnS@NC) microspheres assembled from ultrathin nanosheets is realized by the polymer-assisted solvothermal method. The key factor of SnS@NC microspheres is the use of polyvinylpyrrolidone, which not only acts as surfactant to obtain the hierarchical spherical structure but also is used as heteroatom sources to realize the N-doped carbon layer coating. Compared with the bulk SnS, the enhanced electrochemical performance of SnS@NC electrode can be attributed to its 3D hierarchical structure and composition advantages, including enhanced Li+ diffusion kinetics, faster charge transfer, enough void space to accommodate the volume variation, higher electronic conductivity, and more active sites.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21776196, 51778397) and Key R&D projects of Shanxi Province (201803D421089), and Shanxi Province Science Foundation for Youths (RD2000002002).

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    Jing Ren, Yun Li, Chuan Cao, Rui-Peng Ren & Yong-Kang Lv

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Ren, J., Li, Y., Cao, C. et al. A polymer-assisted strategy for hierarchical SnS@N-doped carbon microspheres with enhanced lithium storage performance. Ionics 26, 4921–4928 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11581-020-03660-z

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