A Review: Enhanced Anodes of Li/Na-Ion Batteries Based on Yolk–Shell Structured Nanomaterials

Wu, Cuo; Tong, **n; Ai, Yuanfei; Liu, De-Sheng; Yu, Peng; Wu, Jiang; Wang, Zhiming M.

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A Review: Enhanced Anodes of Li/Na-Ion Batteries Based on Yolk–Shell Structured Nanomaterials

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Abstract

Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) and sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) have received much attention in energy storage system. In particular, among the great efforts on enhancing the performance of LIBs and SIBs, yolk–shell (YS) structured materials have emerged as a promising strategy toward improving lithium and sodium storage. YS structures possess unique interior void space, large surface area and short diffusion distance, which can solve the problems of volume expansion and aggregation of anode materials, thus enhancing the performance of LIBs and SIBs. In this review, we present a brief overview of recent advances in the novel YS structures of spheres, polyhedrons and rods with controllable morphology and compositions. Enhanced electrochemical performance of LIBs and SIBs based on these novel YS structured anode materials was discussed in detail.

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1 Highlights

In this review article, we have emphasized the recent developments of YS structured anodes and their applications for enhanced electrochemical performance in LIBs and SIBs.
An overview of recent advances in the novel YS structures of spheres, polyhedron and rods with controllable shape and compositions is provided.
Enhanced electrochemical performance of LIBs and SIBs based on these novel YS structured anode materials is discussed in detail.

2 Introduction

Fossil fuels maintain the backbone for global energy supply. With the fast growth of energy consumption, it is urgent to exploit renewable energy [58, 60, 62, 68]

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In this review article, we mainly emphasized the recent developments of YS structured anodes and their application for enhanced electrochemical performance in LIBs and SIBs. Following the introduction, in the second part, we provided a brief overview of typical and recent novel YS structures categorized into spheres, polyhedrons and rods. In the third and fourth part, we discussed these YS structure-designed materials toward the enhanced electrochemical performance in LIBs and SIBs, respectively. Subsequently, a summary was concluded in the final part.

3 Development of Yolk–Shell Structures

3.1 Sphere Structure

A typical spherical YS structure has a smooth spherical surface for both its shell and core. Generally, spherical YS structures vary in both shells and yolks, such as single shell with single yolk [1k. The four red dashed cycles in Fig. 1j show the morphology of three shells and one yolk. Apart from a single yolk, multiple yolks with a single shell Sn₄P₃@C were fabricated from outside single carbon shell to inside multi-yolks. The transmission electron microscopy (TEM) image (Fig. 1g) shows the chief yolk abounded with tiny yolks [62].

Recently, a number of novel YS spheres have emerged. Different with conventional YS spheres with smooth shell and yolk, the shell or the yolk of the novel YS spheres possesses various surfaces. The coconut-like polystyrene (PS)@NiCo₂S₄ YS sphere (shown in Fig. 2a) was synthesized from inside to outside by Zhu et al. [71]. Silicon dioxide was used for template and then removed during the hydrothermal process. Figure 2e exhibits numerous nanosheets around the shell which endow ultrahigh surface area exceeding 200 m² g⁻¹ and penetrable property of this YS structure. In addition to changing shell morphology, the yolk can also be transformed. Liang et al. [72] were inspired by cirsium flower and assembled Bi₂S₃ nanowires to fabricate a yolk of radial pattern which was coated by polypyrrole (PPy). On account of the whippy PPy, the designed architecture possesses mechanical flexibility, short diffusion distance and large surface area. In Fig. 2f, we can see that the flexible shells are expanded by inside radial Bi₂S₃ nanowires. Furthermore, Ma et al. [73] tried to synthesize rough shell and rough yolk spheres (Fig. 2c) from outside to inside through a template-free method. In this template-free method based on Ostwald-ripening mechanism [74], dissolution and recrystallization formed the VO₂ YS spheres. The scanning electron microscope (SEM) image in Fig. 2g₁ and TEM image in Fig. 2g₂ clearly demonstrate the rough and high surface area and the rough yolk inside. In addition to independent single YS sphere, Cui et al. developed a single main sphere consisting of many sub-YS spheres. Figure 2d shows multiple sub-YS architectures of Si@C that is inspired by pomegranate [75]. In the fabrication process, silicon dioxide was etched to engender void space.

3.2 Polyhedron Structure

The sphere is not the only YS architectures. YS polyhedron has also drawn much attention due to its tailored shape with more surfaces in energy conversion [76,77,78,79]. YS polyhedron can be categorized in pentahedron [80], hexahedron [81], octahedron [82] and dodecahedron [83]. Fe₃O₄@C YS nanobox of hexahedron was successfully synthesized by Liu et al. [84]. Polydopamine (PDA) wrapped the Fe₂O₃ nanocubes which had the size of 530 nm. After calcination, Fe₂O₃@PDA became Fe₃O₄@C and engendered interior void space between yolk and shell due to Ostwald-ripening effect. The void space expanded after etching. Figure 3a illustrates the schematic transformation of the Fe₃O₄ yolk with different etching reaction time by hydrochloric acid (HCl) solution. Figure 3b₁, b₂ shows TEM images of Fe₃O₄@C YS nanobox after 1-, 2- and 3-h etching, respectively. The thickness of the carbon shell was 20 nm. With increasing time, the Fe₃O₄ yolk decreased from initial 530 nm to 470, 380, and 230 nm. Using similar method, He et al. [85] also fabricated the sulfured Fe₃O₄@C YS nanobox via the extra melt-diffusion process. Meanwhile, Liu et al. [86] sulfured Fe₃O₄@C to FeS₂@C with sulfur powder through combustion. Besides, Su et al. [81] utilized metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) to drive the generation of CdS microboxes based on the anion exchange and Kirkendall effect process. Excepting for tuning yolk size through etching, the thickness of shell can be controlled. Varying the PDA concentration is used to successfully synthesize different carbon shells with sizes of 15, 25, and 35 nm in Sn@C nanoboxes by Zhang et al. [87]. Unlike nanobox with uniform six surfaces, FeO_x@C YS hexahedron with two rhombus and other unequal surfaces was proposed by Yu et al. [78]. Interestingly, a prism structure of Ni–Co precursor was contracted to Ni–Co oxide YS nanoprism (as depicted in Fig. 3c) via thermal treatment in air [80]. Heterogeneous contraction happened from vertical and lateral directions in the prism structure. Figure 3f demonstrates the prism-like shell and yolk. During the contraction, two competitive forces of contraction force and adhesive force coexisted. Ni–Co precursor core inward contracting was caused by the contraction force. On the contrary, the adhesive force outward expanded the core due to carbon dioxide releasing from organic decomposition. Based on hydrothermal reaction, the octahedral structure of Fe₂PO₅/polymer serving as precursor and template was synthesized via one-step method. After calcination, dense octahedral structure transformed into hollow octahedral graphitized carbon (GC) shell with Fe₂P yolk, as shown in Fig. 3d. SEM image of Fig. 3g₁ and TEM image of Fig. 3g₂ demonstrate the YS octahedral structure. Another Au@Cu₇S₄ YS octahedral structure with nanorod yolk is shown in Fig. 3e [88]. The nanorods can be clearly found in Fig. 3f.

3.3 One- and Three-Dimensional Structures

Additionally, one-dimensional (1D) YS rods can offer wider lateral void space and shorter ion diffusion length. Combining nanorod yolk in YS structure, rod-like YS structures with rod shell are also studied [89,90,91]. Li et al. [92] prepared an Au@TiO₂ YS nanorod structure. By using decyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB), absorption preference of high-energy crystal planes on gold seeds generated the Au core nanorod structure. As can be seen in Fig. 4a₁–d₁, the gold seeds further grew along {111} planes which are not wrapped by CTAB. With diverse Au nanorod aspect ratios, SiO₂ can work as a template to form hollow space, as shown in Fig. 4a₂–d₂. TiO₂ was easily broken down during calcination. In order to fabricate stable TiO₂ shell, as depicted in Fig. 4a₃–d₃, the SiO₂ shell was secondly coated as protective shell, as shown in Fig. 4a₄–d₄. SiO₂ packing agent is tetraethyl orthosilicate (TEOS) and TiO₂ packing agent is tetrabutyl titanate (TBOT). After calcination and etching, the YS rod shell and rod yolk structure was formed, which are depicted in Fig. 4a₅–d₅. Different with above rod in rod YS structure, Zhang et al. [93] demonstrated a Fe₃O₄@Fe₃C@C YS structure of nanorod (nanospindle) shell with spherical yolk. The nanospindle carbon shell with thickness of 3–5 nm was formed via using α-Fe₂O₃ nanospindle as precursor coated with resorcinol formaldehyde (RF). After carbonization, the core–shell Fe₃O₄@Fe₃C acting as the yolk possessed a size of 15–20 nm. The interior void space largely occupied 75% of total inside volume. Xu et al. [94] designed a tree branch YS structure. Multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWNT) served as trunk to support the rod branches of YS Fe₂O₃@C. Coating the template of SiO₂ was for interior hollow space generation in etching step. Another self-templated Sn@SnO_x YS nanosphere structure arrayed in nanofiber was proposed by Kang et al. for the first time [64]. The carbon nanofiber with Sn nanospheres was produced by electrospinning. The Sn nanospheres densely arrayed along the C nanofiber. During calcination, C nanofiber was decomposed. Besides, the Sn nanospheres were oxidized to form SnO_x shell and contracted to form Sn yolk due to Kirkendall diffusion effect.

3.4 Advanced Effects in the Structures

Hollow structures are indeed a strategy to facilitate electrochemical performance of LIBs and SIBs attributing to the void cavity and thin shell. However, volume energy density is decreased along with the formation of hollow structures. YS structures possessing a suitable void space between yolk and shell can accommodate the volume expansion of yolk to maintain a sufficient volume energy density. The expansion ratio of yolk depends on the intrinsic properties of yolk materials. The well-defined void space can accommodate lithium/sodium [95]. In contrast, the extra void space will decrease the volume energy density. Additionally, a large contact area between yolk and shell promotes electron and ion diffusion [96]. Therefore, engineering the void space and large contact area is a key factor to tune the electrochemical performance. The three types of YS structures mentioned above have different effects on void space and contact area. The final morphologies of sphere, polyhedron and rod YS structures mostly originate from initial shapes of yolks. The precursors are previously fabricated in forms of spherical shape, cubic shape, octahedral shape and rod shape. Compared to typical YS spheres, the yolks in polyhedron shell have a larger contact area, which can facilitate conducting electrons and diffusing ions [87]. However, the polyhedron shells suffer from a larger tension on the surface. The yolks in the rod structures can expand along the length direction which have a very large void space size. Hence, the rod structures can be used for yolk materials with a large expansion ratio. Novel strategies like multiple yolks and densely stacking nanostructures cannot be scalably used. It is still noteworthy to exploring controllable and stable YS nanostructures.

4 Performance of Yolk–Shell Materials in Lithium Batteries

The YS structure with unique buffering space, large surface area and short diffusion distance shows great superiority as next-generation LIBs anodes [97,98,99]. Silicon is one of the promising materials for LIBs anodes [100,101,102,103]. Cui et al. [104] fabricated a YS Si@C spherical structure at room temperature. The Si assembled LIB performed a high capacity of 2800 mAh g⁻¹ at 0.1 C. After 1000 cycles, it still held 74% capacity retention and 99.84% Coulombic efficiency. During the charging and discharging processes, the void space allowed the electroactive yolk to expand freely and avoided the yolks aggregating with other yolks. Figure 5l illustrates the expanded state of the YS structure after intercalating Li ions. The carbon shell worked as a framework to support the entire structure and avoid cracking. The hollow carbon shell initially has nanopores. After several cycles, solid-electrolyte interphase (SEI) is formed on the surface of the carbon shell to separate the electrolyte and Si yolk. Another YS pomegranate-like Si@C obtained a capacity of 2350 mAh g⁻¹ at 0.05 C was also proposed by Cui et al. [75]. Its volume capacity of 1270 mAh cm⁻³ was twice higher than graphite anode. The capacity retention remained 97% during the second 1000th cycle at 0.5 C. This densely packed structure resulted in a larger contact area of electrode–electrolyte and formation of a thin and stable SEI film, which led to high Coulombic efficiency of 99.87%. Its high Coulombic efficiency indicated the well reversible cycles of the electrode. Moreover, insufficient void space in sub-particles of this pomegranate microparticle resulted in cracks, which made SEI excessively form. Therefore, internal void space should be critically controlled. Similarly, Han et al. [105] coated Fe₃O₄ sub-nanoparticles with the pomegranate-like carbon shell, which resulted in an excellent specific capacity of 1246 mAh g⁻¹ at 0.8 A g⁻¹ and extremely impeded the decrease of volume energy density. Integrating design is an attractive strategy for LIBs. Liu et al. [106] achieved a silicon@silica@void@carbon YS nanosphere structure and interlinked these nanospheres through chemical bonding with carboxymethyl cellulose and citric acid polymer binder, which performed a high specific capacity of 1640 mAh g⁻¹ at 1 A g⁻¹ and excellent stability that maintained 1000 mAh g⁻¹ at 5 A g⁻¹ after 1000 cycles. Except that silicon suffers the problem of volume expansion, SnO₂ with a high theoretical capacity of 790 mAh·g⁻¹ similarly faced this problem [107]. Wang et al. [107] synthesized SnO₂@C YS nanosphere with thin carbon shell of 15–25 nm and tailored the large interior hollow space of 100–160 nm. This SnO₂@C showed the high capacity of 2190 mAh g⁻¹ in the first cycle. Also, Choi et al. [108] synthesized a YS double-shell SnS spheres which can deliver a specific capacity of 672 mAh g⁻¹ for 150 cycles at 1 A g⁻¹. The Coulombic efficiency was stably maintained at 99% in the posterior cycles. Fan et al. [109] coated ZnO yolk with carbon shell. The resultant YS ZnO@C performed an ultra-stable cyclic performance of 5000 cycles at a current density of 10 A g⁻¹ and kept 96.9% retention rate. Unlike popular carbon shell [110,111,112], Pan et al. [113] synthesized a ZnO/NiO shell composed of plentiful nanorods to encapsulate yolk materials. The composed nanorods on shell can promote electrolyte penetrating, and the ZnO/NiO YS spheres performed a high specific capacity of 1008.6 mAh g⁻¹. Li et al. [114] synthesized YS composites of Al yolk wrapped by the thin TiO₂ shell with a thickness of 3 nm. TiO₂ cannot compete with Al on specific capacity. The thick TiO₂ is adverse to electron and ions transport. According to the model calculation, TiO₂ should be as thin as 10 nm or less. Generally, a thin shell cannot take too much internal tension. Fortunately, nanosized TiO₂ was thinned to a few nanometers while had sufficient mechanical strength. This Al@TiO₂ YS nanosphere possessed a high rate of 1200 and 650 mAh g⁻¹ at 1 C and 10 C, respectively, after the same 500 cycles and realized a robust 99.2% Coulombic efficiency at 1 C. Kim et al. [115] filled structurally stable nitrogen-doped graphitic carbon in YS FeO_x sphere. It showed the excellent capacity performance of 1071 mAh g⁻¹ for 1000 cycles and high rate capacity of 598 mAh g⁻¹ at 10 A g⁻¹. The as-prepared YS metal oxide microsphere was further connected to the yolk and shell with porous nitrogen-doped graphitic carbon (NGC). The NGC not only possessed high electric conductivity but also provided structurally supporting, which offseted the volume energy density caused by void space. Spray pyrolysis is a highly scalable method for producing electrode materials, which can fabricate plenty of specific structured materials such as alloys, oxides, nitrides and organic–inorganic composites [116,117,118,119]. Choi and coworkers [120] used spray pyrolysis method to generate a YS structured with 7-10 components. During 100 cycles at 1 Ah g⁻¹, 7, 8, 9, and 10 components performed 735, 647, 712, and 543 mAh g⁻¹, respectively. Among these four specimens, 8 components increased to 1015 mAh g⁻¹ from 300 to 1000 cycles and sustained a Coulombic efficiency of 99.8% during cycle.

As mentioned above, the typical spherical YS structure is not the only strategy of designed YS structure for enhancing electrochemical performance of LIBs. Zhang et al. [87] realized a YS Sn@C nanobox with adjustable shells of 15–35 nm to tune the void space. As exhibited in Fig. 5a, the Sn spherical yolk closely pasting on the nanobox C shell provided void space and large contact between yolk and shell. The melting point of Sn is as low as 232 °C. Thermal calcination leads to liquid state Sn in the box-shaped shell. After cooling, the liquid state Sn turned to the solid state which naturally contacted the inner surface of cubic carbon shell. The natural contact provided higher transport pathway of electrons and ions due to larger contact area. The adequate void space can satisfy the volume expansion. The Coulombic efficiency only reached 61% caused by the initial formation of SEI, while in the back cycles, the Coulombic efficiency was obtained at 98–100%. Figure 5b shows the form of Li_xSn alloy in cyclic voltage peak. Figure 5c demonstrates the optimized shell of 25 nm performing, resulting in a stable capacity of 810 mAh g⁻¹, even after 500 cycles. In addition to Sn@C, octahedral YS CuO@C with multiple yolks was designed by Tao et al., which exhibited the performance of 512 mAh g⁻¹ at 500 mA g⁻¹ after 300 cycles. Compared to single yolk, the multiple yolks have more contact area which can accelerate electron and ion diffusion [121]. Yu et al. [6c, d. The element map** images proved that Fe, S and C were homogeneously distributed in the YS nanobox. Particularly, Fig. 6e–g compares the two FeS₂@C-0 and FeS₂@C-45 anodes. The FeS₂@C-45 revealed the more stable variation of specific capacity than FeS₂@C-0 at different current densities during long cyclic test. After 100 cycles, the FeS₂@C-45 performed a capacity of 511 mAh g⁻¹ at 100 mA g⁻¹. After further 800 cycles, the FeS₂@C-45 still obtained 330 mAh g⁻¹ at 2 A g⁻¹ with around full Coulombic efficiency. Another YS Sn₃P₄@C nanobox structure was generated by Ma et al. [134]. They fabricated ZnSn(OH)_x nanobox firstly and used it as a template then to generate Sn₃P₄@C nanobox. As SIB anode, the YS Sn₃P₄@C nanobox relieved Sn₃P₄ yolk expansion and showed the remarkable cyclic performance of 516 mAh g⁻¹ at 1 A g⁻¹ for 500 cycles with the Coulombic efficiency of 99.0%. Additionally, YS Sb@Ti–O–P nanorods were synthesized for SIB anode to reach a high capacity of 760 mAh g⁻¹ at 500 mA g⁻¹ after 200 cycles [90]. Another novel YS dodecahedron structure of Co₃O₄@C for SIB anode showed a capacity of 307 and 269 mAh g⁻¹ at 1000 and 2000 mA g⁻¹, respectively [77].

As a result of the enhanced performance of YS materials applied in LIBs and SIBs, it can mainly attribute to the functional YS shell. Due to the hollow shell, the yolk can be relatively increased weight fraction to increase energy density compared to the dense yolk–shell structure. More than that, the hollow shell provides void space to buffer yolk expansion and avoid aggregation of yolks. The shell is thin enough and has a large surface area which can highly lower diffusion distance. The spherical YS type is superior in low specific area which can conduce to reducing surface tension. The void size in typical spherical spheres can be further filled with porous NGC to facilitate electrons diffusion and decreased volume energy density. The densely stacked spherical nanoparticles can efficiently relieve the decrease of volume energy density [135]. However, the spherical spheres cannot have enough contact area between yolk and shell for electrons conducting and ions diffusing. The polyhedron can provide more surface for yolk contacting instead. In addition, the rod YS structures possess high aspect ratio. This structure can be used for large expansion ratio-based yolk materials. Carbon is mostly used as shell materials. However, the amorphous carbon shell with large sites can trap lithium, which will resulted in decreasing Coulombic efficiency. Si-based anode have large capacity, while using porous Si as yolk material will partially release the stress of volume expansion [136,137,138]. Overall, the electrochemical performance of the YS structured anodes has been effectively improved in LIBs and SIBs.

6 Conclusion and Perspectives

The YS structures in LIBs and SIBs are reviewed in this paper. Typical spherical YS structures are tuned with various numbers of shells and yolks varying in number and size. To explore more spherical YS structures, the rough shells were formed with large surface area. The yolks are changed in self-assembled nanowires. Also, sub-YS nanospheres were gathered to form a pomegranate-like nanosphere. Interestingly, a box-shaped shell with box yolk YS structure is synthesized via Ostwald-ripening effect. Other than box-in-box structure, prism and octahedron shells with nanoparticle and nanorod and rod-shaped YS structures are also discussed. The YS structured materials with tailored interior space, shape and components can synergetically relieve volume expansion and facilitate rapid diffusion and electron transportation. Due to these superior merits, the YS structured anodes immensely improved Li and Na storage performance, which resulted in high specific capacity, excellent rate capability and stable long-term cyclic performance. These YS structured materials indeed showed promising performance as LIBs and SIBs anodes. Partial results are concluded in Table 1.

Table 1 Electrochemical performance of YS structured materials

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In order to more precisely control the shape and size, further study should be focused on exploring accessible and advanced approaches. Rigid materials such as silicon and silica usually act as sacrificial layers to engineer the internal void space between the yolk and shell. However, the dissolution solvents, like hydrofluoric acid that can etch the sacrificial layers, are harmful. The environmentally friendly etching solutions should be explored. The densely stacked nanoparticles provide a strategy to sustain the volume energy density. The advanced methods which can stack polyhedron/rod YS structures and increase contact areas are significant in the future developments. In addition, morphology control would not be confined to these three types. It also appears a trend to explore two-dimensional YS nanosheets. The alternative materials with even lower cost should be explored for scalable and commercial usage. Carbon is still the most popular yolk–shell materials with good electric conductivity. Future works should concentrate on designing the void space size according to the expansion fraction of yolk materials. Na ion is bigger than Li ion, which results in a larger volume expansion in the YS structure. It’s also necessary to find materials with a small expansion ratio of Na ions and high theoretical specific capacity. Undoubtedly, novel YS structures with tailored and functional components are crucially promising to enhance LIBs and SIBs performance in the near future with commercially available and industrially scalable application.

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The work is supported by National Program on Key Basic Research Project (973 Program) No. 2013CB933301, National Natural Science Foundation of China No. 51272038 and 61474015.

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Wu, C., Tong, X., Ai, Y. et al. A Review: Enhanced Anodes of Li/Na-Ion Batteries Based on Yolk–Shell Structured Nanomaterials. Nano-Micro Lett. 10, 40 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-018-0194-4

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