Hailin Shen
Wei Zhang- School of Chemical Engineering and Materials, Changzhou Institute of Technology, Changzhou, China
Layered manganese phosphoselenide (MnPSe3) is expected to be a potential anode for Li ions storage due to it combines the merits of phosphorus with metal selenide. It promotes charge transfer and ensures a high theoretical capacity of up to 746 mA h g−1. In this work, a comprehensive study clearly demonstrated that bulk MnPSe3 electrode is the inability to maintain the integrity of the structure with severe detectable fracture or pulverization after full lithiation/delithiation, resulting in poor rate capability and cycling stability. Additionally, exfoliated few-layered MnPSe3 nanoflakes by the ultrasonic method show enhanced electrical conductivity and resistance to volume expansion. It has a high initial discharge/charge capacity reaching to 524/796 mA h g−1 and outstanding cycling stability with charge capacities of 709 mA h g−1 after 100 cycles at 0.2 A g−1 within the potential window of 0.005–3 V vs. Li+/Li. While further improving the cycles, the retention rate was still held at ∼72% after 350 cycles. This work provides new insights into exploiting new novel layered materials, such as MnPSe3 as anodes for lithium-ion batteries.
Introduction
As is known, lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) (Liu et al., 2010; Dunn et al., 2011; Goodenough, 2014) have been utilized in countless commodities, such as mobile phones and electric vehicles. However, its wider applications are impeded owing to limiting materials, so there is still great potential as long as more novel electrode materials are exploited for LIBs.
So far, various metal selenides, such as FeSe2 (Kong et al., 2019; Yousaf et al., 2020), MnSe(Li et al., 2016; Liu et al., 2018; Li Z. et al., 2019), and CoSe2 (Yu N. et al., 2019; Xu et al., 2020) have been deeply studied as active materials in LIBs. Nevertheless, it presents the challenges of inferior rate capability and rapid capacity loss. Some researchers have also focused on phosphorus-based materials such as black phosphorus (Dahbi et al., 2016; Del Rio Castillo et al., 2018), SiP (Duveau et al., 2016), FeP (Jiang et al., 2017), and GeP (Li W. et al., 2019; Li X. et al., 2019; Fan et al., 2019), which also exhibits the inferior cycling performance. Nevertheless, improving the electrochemical performance of metal sulfides and phosphides in terms of rate capability and cycling stability is an enormous challenge due to the large volume change that can lead to crushing and loss of electrical contact.
Recently, a novel ternary metal phosphide sulfide/selenides (MPX3, M is transition metal, such as Mn, Zn, etc; X is Se or S (Brec, 1986; Pei et al., 2018; Gusmao et al., 2019; Samal et al., 2021), have been investigated in electrocatalysis (Byvik et al., 1982; Dedkov et al., 2020), hydrogen storage (Cabria and El-Meligi, 2018) and toxicological hazards (Latiff et al., 2018). However, the MPX3 empolyed as active materials in LIBs are rarely reported. The layered MPX3 owns attractive lithium storage ability for rechargeable ion batteries. Its unique two-dimensional (2D) layered nanostructure, which is composed of weak van der Waals stacking between layers, is deemed to be an ideal framework for fast Li+ storage. The layered structure alleviates the volume stress, generates abundant ion diffusion pathways and speedy electron transportation owing to lower energy barrier (Fan et al., 2019; Ding et al., 2020). More importantly, the preferred bandgaps\ of MPX3 (1.3–3.5 eV) (Wang et al., 2018) and potential ionic conductivity make MPX3 as superior anode electrode materials. Some groups have reported like-MPX3, such as MnPS3 (Sang et al., 2020), CoPS3 (Jana et al., 2020), FePSe3 (Xing et al., 2020), NiPS3 (Dangol et al., 2018) and SnPSe3 (Ren et al., 2020), exhibit a promising performance of lithium/sodium ions storage.
The manganese phosphorous selenide (MnPSe3) is one of MPX3, isostructural with FePSe3. The MnPSe3 possesses an interlayer spacing of∼0.32 nm (Li et al., 2014), much larger than the diameter of Li+ (∼0.152 nm), providing channels for Li+ diffusion in the insertion/extraction process. MnPSe3 as anodes also have a high theoretical capacity of 746 mA h g−1 by forming Li3P and Li2Se alloy (Li et al., 2013; Gusmão et al., 2019; Tang et al., 2020). However, the numerous overlapping layers of bulk MnPSe3 lead to a decreasing active surface area, slow charge transfer, and even poor resistance to volume expansion in lithiation/delithiation. According to previous studies (Abdelkader and Kinloch, 2016; Chen et al., 2016; Shen et al., 2020), mechanical exfoliation can effectively narrow the size and thickness of bulk materials, causing abundant exposed active sites, highly tunable morphology, reduced diffusion length of charge carriers for Li+ and perfect resistance to volume change.
In this work, the lithiation/delithiation processing of bulk MnPSe3 as the anode in LIBs has been disclosed by half-cell. It occurs to serious volume expansion/contraction for bulk MnPSe3 in lithiation/delithiation, even the tracking MnPSe3 electrode is unable to maintain high integrity with serious cracks or pulverization. Thus, we reduced bulk MnPSe3 to a few layered MnPSe3 nanoflakes by mechanical exfoliation and comprehensively compared the storage Li+ performances of exfoliated MnPSe3 to that by grinding as LIBs anodes. Moreover, the exfoliated MnPSe3 electrode shows an initial discharge/charge capacity of 524/796 mA h g−1, and a retention rate of 88% and 72% after 100 and 350 cycles, respectively at 0.2 A g−1. The improved resistance to expansion and pulverization and rapid reaction kinetics indicate the exfoliated MnPSe3 is able to achieve superb cyclic stability. Ultimately, exfoliated MnPSe3 is considered a great dynamism and potential anode material with predominant performance in LIBs.
Experimental section
Synthesis of bulk and exfoliated MnPSe3
All chemicals are available without further treatment. The bulk MnPSe3 is prepared by grinding in the agate mortar for about 30 min. The thinner and smaller MnPSe3 nanoflakes continue to be processed by ultrasonic exfoliation (Zhang et al., 2016). These bulk particles (100 mg) are reduced to thinner by ultrasonic (1000 W, 4 h) in N-Methyl pyrrolidone (NMP) solvent (150 ml) and centrifugation (3,000 rpm for 20 min) to remove large particles. Then the small-size nanoflakes were obtained by washing and drying in a vacuum oven.
Preparation of MnPSe3 electrodes and the coin-type half-cell for LIBs
The slurry of the MnPSe3 electrode was prepared by mixing 70 wt% MnPSe3 nanoflakes and 20 wt% carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and 10 wt% carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC), which was spread evenly on a copper foil (load of 1.5–2.0 mg cm−1), then the obtained products were cut into a disc (diameter of 10 mm) and dried at 70°C for about 12 h under vacuum. The surface morphology of MnPSe3/CNT/CMC electrode is shown in Supplementary Figure S1, exhibiting the MnPSe3 nanoflakes embedded in the uniform carbon nanotubes matrix. The carbon nanotubes are able to promote a quick electron/ion transfer and alleviate volume stress. Lithium metal foil, polypropylene (PP), and MnPSe3/CNT/CMC electrode sequentially were put into the CR2032 cell case for assembling sequentially in the glove box. The electrolyte is composed of 1 M LiPF6 dissolved in EC/DMC/DEC (1/1/1 v/v/v) mixed solution.
Electrochemical measurements of MnPSe3 anode
The galvanostatic charge/discharge, rate performance, and cycle performance of half-cell were performed in the volt range from 0.005 to 3 V (vs. Li+/Li). Cyclic voltammograms (CVs) were tested using an electrochemical working station in the voltage range of 0.005–3.0 V (vs. Li+/Li) at 0.05 mV s−1. Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) was conducted in a frequency range of 10 K to 0.1 HZ in the same test system.
Material test and characterization instruments
Battery testing system (a Land CT 2001A, WuHan, China). Electrochemical working station (a 1,400 Cell Test system, Solartron, China). X-ray diffractometer (XRD-Bruker D2, Cu K radiation, λ = 1.5418 Å). A field-emission scanning electron microscopy (SEM, Hitachi-S4800). High-resolution transmission electron microscopy (TEM, JEM 2100, JEOL, Japan, 200 kV). X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS, ThermoFisher EscaLab 250Xi).
Results and discussion
As clearly displayed by the low-magnification TEM in Figure 1A. MnPSe3 exhibits an ultrathin and transparent lamellar appearance with several micrometers in plane and nanometers in thickness. The typical SAED pattern of MnPSe3 show the diffraction spots of (-11-2), (-10-1), (0-11) plane with corresponding d-spacings of 4.8, 5.29, and 5.31 Å, respectively viewed along [-111] in Figure 1B, which is commensurate to HRTEM along [-111] in Figure 1C. It indicates that the as-prepared MnPSe3 possesses high crystallinity and phase purity.
FIGURE 1. The purity, structure, and composition of MnPSe3 nanoflake. (A) The typical TEM image of layered MnPSe3. (B) The selected area electron diffraction (SAED) pattern of MnPSe3 nanoflake view from [-111]. (C) The high-resolution TEM (HRTEM) image of MnPSe3 was viewed along the same direction corresponding to the SAED. (D) The crystal structure schematic of MnPSe3 along the b and c axes, respectively. (E–G) The high-resolution XPS shows spectra of the Mn, P, and Se elements, respectively.
The schematic images of layered MnPSe3 viewed from the b and c axes are shown in Figure 1D. MnPSe3 belongs to a hexagonal with the lattice parameters of a = 6.387 Å, b = 6.387 Å, c = 19.996Å; and the angle α, β is 90°, γ is 107.35°. As depicted in Figure 1A, a single layer is composed of the Mn atom’s central shell and the other two shells in PS3 units. The selenide atoms are located on the two external surfaces of a MnPSe3 layer (Li et al., 2014; Pei et al., 2018). Moreover, the spacing of two adjacent MnPSe3 layers is 3.2 Å by Van der Waals (Li et al., 2014), which provides channels and buffers volume expansion/contraction for Li+ insertion/extraction.
The chemical compositions of MnPSe3 nanoflakes were further investigated by XPS in Figures 1E–G. As revealed by the Mn 2p spectrum, the high-resolution Mn 2p profile can be mainly fitted at 640.7 eV (2p3/2) and 651.3 eV (2p1/2), ascribed to the binding energy of Mn2+, while the peaks at 642.3 eV (2p3/2) and 657.6 eV (2p1/2) indicate the presence of Mn4+ (Sang et al., 2020). The narrowly scanned XPS spectrum of P 2p can be contributed to double peaks at 134.5 and 133.4 eV, which are in line with the P 2p3/2 and P 2p1/2, respectively (Edison et al., 2018; Fan et al., 2019). Additionally, there are only a pair of peaks at 166.4 eV (2p3/2) and 160.7 eV (2p1/2) for the Se 2p (Gusmão et al., 2017; Dedkov et al., 2020), indicating only one form of selenium existed in the MnPSe3, in agreement with aforementioned results.
Electrochemical behaviors of bulk MnPSe3 have been tested in Figure 2. There are mainly four obvious plateau regions at 2.0–1.8 V, 1.75–1.58 V, 1.53–1.15 V, and 0.75–0.35 V in the first discharge curve, while the charge profile also shows three corresponding three plateaus at 2.07–2.34 V, 1.71–1.94 V, and 1.1–1.38 V, respectively in Figure 2A. Significantly, the bulk MnPSe3 electrode illustrates the rate capabilities of 0.2, 0.4, 1, 2, and 4 A g−1in Figure 2B. With the increase of current density, the specific capacities decay obviously for the MnPSe3 electrode. When the current density reaches up to 4 A g−1, the reversible capacity of 35 mA h g−1 is just left. The bulk MnPSe3 delivers a first 412/550 mA h g−1 discharge/charge capacity with ∼75% initial Coulombic efficiency in a potential of 0.005–3 V at 0.2 A g−1, and an extremely obvious downward trend with a retained capacity of 344 mA h g−1 after 50 cycles in Figure 2C. It indicates the cycling durability for the bulk electrode is really poor. The bulk MnPSe3 electrode possesses an inferior rate capability and more unstable cycling performance.
FIGURE 2. Electrochemical performance of bulk MnPSe3 within the window 0.005–3 V (vs. Li+/Li). (A) The initial three discharging/charging curves of MnPSe3 electrode at 0.2 A g−1. (B) The rate performance at different current densities from 0.2 to 4 A g−1. (C) The cycling performance of MnPSe3 electrode at 0.2 A g−1.
In order to further improve the Li+ storage performance of MnPSe3, the bulk MnPSe3 was refined to nanoflakes by mechanical exfoliation. We compare the morphology between bulk MnPSe3 and exfoliated MnPSe3 by SEM in Figures 3A, B; Supplementary Figure S2. Compared to bulk MnPSe3, exfoliated MnPSe3 nanoflakes display a smaller and more uniform size. As shown in Figures 3C,D, the size distribution of MnPSe3 nanoflakes was measured by particle size analysis. The size of bulk MnPSe3 by hand grinding reaches ∼1.2 μm. However, exfoliated MnPSe3 nanoflakes have been largely narrowed to tens of nanometers. Moreover, exfoliated MnPSe3 electrode exhibits more remarkable electrical conductivity than bulk MnPSe3 in Supplementary Figure S3. According to reported articles (Chen et al., 2016; Dangol et al., 2018; Yu Z. et al., 2019), reducing the size and thinning the thickness of bulk 2D materials can effectively improve abundant exposed active sites and resistance to expansion/shrinkage and shortened diffusion length of charge carriers for Li ions and in the process of Li+ insertion and extraction. In addition, as shown in Figure 3E, MnPSe3 nanoflakes were prepared by two-step method. The liquid-phase ultrasonic exfoliation does not involve in phase transformation and any new phases formation. In addition, this method achieves controllable size nanoflakes and high repeatability. The obtained MnPSe3 nanoflakes exhibits further enhancement on fast chargeability and long cyclability of Li+ storage. Firstly, bulk MnPSe3 were crumbled roughly by ultrasonic stripping. Secondly, smaller MnPSe3 nanoflakes effectively were separated by fractional centrifugation.
FIGURE 3. Comparison of the morphology for bulk and exfoliated MnPSe3. (A,B) The SEM images of MnPSe3 nanoflakes by hand grinding and exfoliation. (C,D) The size distribution of bulk and exfoliated MnPSe3 nanoflakes corresponds to Figures 3A,B. (E) The processing illustration of MnPSe3 nanoflakes was obtained by sonication-assisted exfoliation.
Furthermore, we examined the discrepancy of the bulk and exfoliation MnPSe3 in morphology and EIS, respectively in Figure 4. The side surface of exfoliated MnPSe3/CNT/CMC electrode shows serious cracking, reaching ∼15 μm due to severe volume expansion/shrinkage after full lithiation/delithiation in Figures 4A,B, which is a key cause of rapid failure for bulk MnPSe3 electrode. While it was found that exfoliated MnPSe3 remained integrity after 100 cycles. This clearly further demonstrates that exfoliated MnPSe3 electrodes resist severe volume expansion owing to possessing excellent mechanical robustness. Interestingly, after 100 charge/discharge cycles, the thinner and smaller layered MnPSe3 electrode obtains a lower transfer resistance than bulk MnPSe3 owing to the contact separation of electrode internal components in Figure 4C, even falling from the current collector, resulting in the decreasing of electrical conductivity and ion transport properties. Thus, the exfoliated layered MnPSe3 electrode facilitates Li+ extraction from the insertion region.
FIGURE 4. The performance analysis of MnPSe3 electrode. (A,B) The side SEM of MnPSe3 electrode before and after exfoliation in 100 charge/discharge cycles. (C) The impedance of MnPSe3 electrode in 100 charge/discharge cycles before and after exfoliation, respectively.
To further confirm the phase transformation of MnPSe3 in lithiation/delithiation, X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) has also been performed on the MnPSe3 electrode in Figure 5A. The pristine MnPSe3 electrode exhibits the obvious crystallographic orientations of (003), (006), and (113), and no detectable impurities were found. The ex-situ XRD of the MnPSe3 anode presents Li3P peaks at about 26.6°, 33.8°, and 44.3° (Kim and Cho, 2009), and Li2Se peaks at about 25.1° and 22.6° after the first full lithiation (Liu et al., 2020), which further verify single-crystal MnPSe3 is entirely alloyed to Li3P and Li2Se phase. While upon full delithiation, it presents a new peak at 33.1°, which is caused by the MnSe phase (Xue and Fu, 2007). The marked peaks located at other degrees originate from electrolyte decomposition on the surface of the MnPSe3 electrode, which is in good agreement with reported results about like-MPX3. Significantly, the differential capacity profiles display excellent reversibility in a redox reaction and agree well with the ex-situ XRD analysis, which also presents the reduction peak at 1.95, 1.66, 1.30, and 0.6 V, could correspond to the alloying reactions of LixMnPSe, Li2Se/P/Mn Li3P, and SEI, respectively. Considering the analysis above, phase transformation in first lithiation/delithiation could be summarized as follows:
FIGURE 5. Phase characterization of MnPSe3 electrode in lithiation/delithiation. (A) The ex-situ XRD patterns of MnPSe3 electrodes for the first lithiation/delithiation. (B) The differential capacity curves of the MnPSe3 electrode in the initial three cycles.
After First lithiation:
After First delithiation:
As shown in Figure 6, the exfoliated MnPSe3 anode is further utilized in a half-cell. Primarily, the typical cyclic voltammogram (CV) curves of the electrode were illustrated in Figure 6A. The initial cathodic sweep displays four distinct reduction peaks at 1.95 V, 1.6 V, 1.2 V, 0.6 V, and 0.35 V, indicating the lithiation/delithiation process is a multiple-step. The prominent peak located at 1.95 V is matched to LixMnPSe3. The peaks centered at 1.6 V and 1.2 V are associated with the formation of Li2Se, P, and Mn. The peak at 0.6 V is related to the generation of Li3P. Another weak broad peak located at 0.35 V is attributed to the side reaction (formation of SEI film). In the following anodic sweep. The three strong peaks at 1.38 V, 2.0 V, and 2.27 V are coincident with dealloying of Li3P, Li2Se, and the formation of MnSe. The result above is similar to CVs profiles for like-MPX3 (FePSe3, NiPS3, etc) (Sang et al., 2020; Xing et al., 2020; Liu et al., 2021). In addition, the initial three cycles curves exhibit a consistent property of reaction to that of the CV results above in Figure 6B. The charge/discharge curves and CVs in multiple cycles are also nearly overlapped, suggesting the wonderful stability of electrode.
FIGURE 6. Electrochemical performance of exfoliated MnPSe3 as anode in Li ions half-cell. (A) The CVs of the initial three cycles in the voltage window of 0.005–3 V at 0.05 mV s−1. (B) Galvanostatic discharge/charge profiles for the first three cycles in the voltage window of 0.005–3 V (vs. Li+/Li) at 0.2 A g−1. (C) Rate performance of MnPSe3 anode within the potential of 0.005–3 V vs. Li+/Li at different current densities from 0.2 A g−1 to 4 A g−1. (D) Cycling performance of exfoliated MnPSe3 electrode tested within the potential of 0.005–3 V (vs. Li+/Li) at 0.2 A g−1.
To evaluate the lithium storage properties of the exfoliated MnPSe3 at a high rate, the reversible capacities of 616, 562, 458, 348, and 242 mA h g−1 were obtained at current densities of 0.2, 0.4, 1, 2, and 4 A g−1, respectively in Figure 6C. Moreover, the capacity achieves 331, 412, 502, and 568 mA h g−1 with the current density coming back to 2, 1, 0.4, and 0.2 A g−1, illustrating the MnPSe3 electrode maintains a remarkable rate performance. Compared to bulk MnPSe3, the cycling stability of the exfoliated MnPSe3 is also effectively improved. It maintains outstanding cycling stability with capacity retention of 709 mA h g−1 after 100 cycles at 0.2 A g−1, and capacity retention of 578 mA h g−1 after 350 cycles at 0.2 A g−1in Figure 6D; Supplementary Figure S4.
Conclusion
In summary, this work researches on performance improvement of the MnPSe3 as the anode of LIBs in detail by ultrasonic exfoliation, revealing an extraordinary ability to resist volume expansion/shrinkage in full lithiation/delithaition, which provides significant evidence for the research of like-MPX3. The thinner and smaller MnPSe3 shows superior performance to the bulk electrode material. When supplied as the anode of LIBs in half-cell, a splendid reversible capacity of 709 mA h g−1 was maintained for the MnPSe3 within the potential window of 0.005–3 V vs. Li+/Li after 100 cycles at 0.2 A g−1. While further improving the cycles, a specific capacity of 578 mA h g−1 was still held after 350 cycles, which benefits from the favorable capacitance kinetics, and resist severe volume expansion. Layered MnPSe3 as anode materials for LIBs meet the needs of high capacity, rapid charge-discharge, and long cycle.
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Author contributions
HS: Conceptualization (ideas; formulation or evolution of overarching research goals and aims); Experimental method design, Performing experiments; Original draft preparation. WZ: Formal analysis. YZ: Supervision. WW: Guiding the experiment; Writing—Reviewing and Editing. MW: Resources; Investigation. TL: Writing—Reviewing and Editing.
Funding
Financial support from National Science Foundation of Changzhou Institute of Technology (YN21024).
Conflict of interest
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Keywords: manganese phosphoselenide, exfoliation, anode, cycling stability, LIBs
Citation: Shen H, Zhang W, Zhang Y, Wang W, Wang M and Liu T (2022) A novel exfoliated manganese phosphoselenide as a high-performance anode material for lithium ions storage. Front. Chem. 10:949979. doi: 10.3389/fchem.2022.949979
Received: 22 May 2022; Accepted: 29 July 2022;
Published: 29 September 2022.
Edited by:
Xingke Cai, Shenzhen University, ChinaReviewed by:
Zhenming Xu, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, ChinaYongtao Li, Anhui University of Technology, China
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