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The Effects of Near Surface and Bulk Microstructure on Lithium Intercalation of Disordered, “Hard” Carbons

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

William R. Even
Affiliation:
Sandia National Laboratories, P.O. Box 969, Livermore, CA 94551, [email protected]
Lawrence W. Peng
Affiliation:
Sandia National Laboratories, P.O. Box 969, Livermore, CA 94551, [email protected]
Nancy Yang
Affiliation:
Sandia National Laboratories, P.O. Box 969, Livermore, CA 94551, [email protected]
Ronald Guidotti
Affiliation:
Sandia National Laboratories, P.O. Box 5800, Albuquerque, NM 87185–0614
Thomas Headley
Affiliation:
Sandia National Laboratories, P.O. Box 5800, Albuquerque, NM 87185–0614
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Abstract

Disordered carbons were synthesized at 700°C from methacrylonitrile-divinylbenzene precursors. The disorder, even at the free surface, was confirmed with TAM. These powdered carbons were subjected to rapid surface heating by a pulsed infrared laser. While the bulk structure remained essentially unchanged, there was substantial surface reconstruction to a depth of 0.25μm after heating (5.9 W average power at 10Hz, 10 ns pulse width, 1064nm wavelength). The surface ordering appears similar to the bulk microstructure of carbons isothermally annealed at 2,200°C (i.e., turbostratic). Improvements were observed in first cycle irreversible loss, rate capability, and coulombic efficiencies of the reconstructed carbons, relative to the untreated carbon.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1998

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