TY - JOUR
T1 - Chicken feathers as an intrinsic source to develop ZnS/carbon composite for Li-ion battery anode material
AU - Muthukumaraswamy Rangaraj, Vengatesan
AU - Edathil, Anjali Achazhiyath
AU - Kadirvelayutham, Prasanna
AU - Banat, Fawzi
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Nowadays, renewable biomass-wastes are considered as one of the green precursors for developing multifunctional nanomaterials. Herein, we successfully developed a zinc sulfide (ZnS) doped chicken feather carbon (ZnS-CFC) composite using bio-waste of chicken feathers (CFs) as the natural sulfur and carbon precursor via simple two-steps approach. Under a hydrothermal condition, Zn precursor in situ reacts with the CFs to form a ZnS doped hydrothermally treated feathers (ZnS-HTF) hybrid, and further pyrolysis yields a ZnS-CFC composite. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) revealed that ZnS nanoparticles are existing in a stable sub 10 nm size within the carbon matrix without any capping agents. As–prepared ZnS-CFC composite was utilized as an anode material for the Li-ion battery and achieved a reversible capacity of 788 mAh g−1 after 150 cycles at 100 mA g−1 with a good rate performance. Interestingly, the present work provides an eco-friendly way of developing metal sulfide-carbon composites that have the potential for various practical applications.
AB - Nowadays, renewable biomass-wastes are considered as one of the green precursors for developing multifunctional nanomaterials. Herein, we successfully developed a zinc sulfide (ZnS) doped chicken feather carbon (ZnS-CFC) composite using bio-waste of chicken feathers (CFs) as the natural sulfur and carbon precursor via simple two-steps approach. Under a hydrothermal condition, Zn precursor in situ reacts with the CFs to form a ZnS doped hydrothermally treated feathers (ZnS-HTF) hybrid, and further pyrolysis yields a ZnS-CFC composite. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) revealed that ZnS nanoparticles are existing in a stable sub 10 nm size within the carbon matrix without any capping agents. As–prepared ZnS-CFC composite was utilized as an anode material for the Li-ion battery and achieved a reversible capacity of 788 mAh g−1 after 150 cycles at 100 mA g−1 with a good rate performance. Interestingly, the present work provides an eco-friendly way of developing metal sulfide-carbon composites that have the potential for various practical applications.
KW - ZnS
KW - Carbon composite
KW - Chicken feathers
KW - Li-ion battery
KW - Capacity
U2 - 10.1016/j.matchemphys.2020.122953
DO - 10.1016/j.matchemphys.2020.122953
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0254-0584
VL - 248
JO - Materials Chemistry and Physics
JF - Materials Chemistry and Physics
M1 - 122953
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