title: Cation Intercalation in Manganese Oxide Nanosheets: Effects on Lithium and Sodium Storage.
abstract: The rapid development of advanced energy-storage devices requires significant improvements of the electrode performance and a detailed understanding of the fundamental energy-storage processes. In this work, the self-assembly of two-dimensional manganese oxide nanosheets with various metal cations is introduced as a general and effective method for the incorporation of different guest cations and the formation of sandwich structures with tunable interlayer distances, leading to the formation of 3D Mx MnO2 (M=Li, Na, K, Co, and Mg) cathodes. For sodium and lithium storage, these electrode materials exhibited different capacities and cycling stabilities. The efficiency of the storage process is influenced not only by the interlayer spacing but also by the interaction between the host cations and shutter ions, confirming the crucial role of the cations. These results provide promising ideas for the rational design of advanced electrodes for Li and Na storage.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory for Colloid and Interface Chemistry of State Education Ministry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100, China.
authors.forename: Ke
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.affiliation: Beijing Computational Science Research Center, No.10 East Xibeiwang Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100193, China.
authors.forename: Ziyu
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Organic-Inorganic Composites, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, 100029, China.
authors.forename: Zhonghua
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Xiang
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory for Colloid and Interface Chemistry of State Education Ministry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100, China.
authors.forename: Jizhen
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.affiliation: Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials and Devices, Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University, Suzhou, 215123, China.
authors.forename: Bin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Song
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory for Colloid and Interface Chemistry of State Education Ministry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100, China. jtzhang@sdu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Jintao
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-1029-3404
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory for Colloid and Interface Chemistry of State Education Ministry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100, China. hyma@sdu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Houyi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ma
keywords: electrochemistry; manganese oxide; nanosheets; sandwich structures; self-assembly