近日，刘燕萍同学和陈梁老师在锂离子电池领域的研究取得了突破性进展。他们采用了先进的g–C3N4辅助热解策略，成功合成了一种新型的Mn2O3@NC-M复合材料，用作锂离子电池的阳极材料。该研究打破了传统石墨阳极的局限性，因其具有超细的Mn2O3纳米颗粒、大比表面积、丰富的介孔结构和高掺氮量等特点，从而显著增强了循环稳定性和倍率性能。研究团队利用g–C3N4作为分散剂、造孔剂和掺杂剂，实现了Mn2O3@NC-M的均匀分散和良好的孔隙结构。此外，适量的锰源投料也对合成效果起到了关键作用。这一研究为未来高性能锂离子电池的发展带来了新的希望。
The construction of advanced transition metal oxide (TMO)/carbon anodes to substitute graphite is always being an enormous challenge for the evolution of lithium–ion batteries (LIBs). Herein, a g–C3N4–assisted pyrolysis strategy is exploited to produce Mn2O3 nanoparticles embedded into N–doped carbon (Mn2O3@NC) hybrids. The results confirm that g–C3N4 plays three critical roles (dispersing agent, pore–forming agent and doping agent) in producing Mn2O3@NC hybrids. In the meantime, it is verified that the feed of Mn source greatly affects the synthesis of Mn2O3@NC hybrids. As a consequence, the resultant Mn2O3@NC–M (M means medium loading of Mn source) reaches a balanced proportion of Mn2O3 and NC, and contemporaneously displays a series of intriguing features, including ultrafine Mn2O3 nanoparticles, large specific surface area, rich mesopores and much high N doping amount. Benefitting from these advantages, the obtained Mn2O3@NC–M shows much enhanced cycling stability and rate performance when engaged as an battery anode.
论文题目：g–C3N4–assisted synthesis of ultrafine Mn2O3 nanoparticles embedded into N–doped carbon for advanced lithium–ion battery anode.
论文作者：Liang Chen, Yanping Liu, Lanyun Yang, Chenxi Xu, Wei Wang, Gangyong Li, Yucan Zhu, Minjie Zhou, Zhaohui Hou.
