title: Soil as an inexhaustible and high-performance anode material for Li-ion batteries.
abstract: Herein, we demonstrate that by a simple treatment of heating and ball-milling, soil is endowed with a 77.2% degree of defects and acts as a high-performance anode material for soil/Li half cells and 18650-type LiNi0.915Co0.075Al0.1O2 (NCA)/soil full batteries that displayed a high and stable capacity of 3200 mA h (corresponding to 176 W h kg(-1) and 522 W h L(-1)) in the 200th cycle at a high current of 4 A.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry (Ministry of Education), Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, People's Republic of China. chenabc@nankai.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Xiaofei
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry (Ministry of Education), Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, People's Republic of China. chenabc@nankai.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Kai
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry (Ministry of Education), Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, People's Republic of China. chenabc@nankai.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Liang
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Cong
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry (Ministry of Education), Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, People's Republic of China. chenabc@nankai.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Fangyi
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry (Ministry of Education), Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, People's Republic of China. chenabc@nankai.edu.cn and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, People's Republic of China.
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chen